Word: law
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...believe law schools have an obligation to teach students that they are personally responsible for helping achieve justice," reads the letter. "It is deeply disturbing to us that the current Corporation board is permitted to continue to send a destructive message to our students...
Bush has not offered a public response to the letter, according to the White House media relations office. And Legal Services Corporation officials said last week they did not expect the letter--signed by the deans of law schools at Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Yale and the University of Chicago--to speed up the appointment process...
...Vorenberg said in an interview that the deans' position is "generally accepted," and he cited a letter by the president of the American Bar Association highly critical of the current board. "It's not the case that this is five law school deans whistling in the dark," said Vorenberg...
Finally, Bhutto urged that the association build "an international machinery to protect human rights and principles of justice and due process of law," to give legal force to its moral goals...
Indeed, two top feminist scholars were on the short list of candidates for the position--Harvard Law School Professor Martha L. Minow and Duke University Professor Anne F. Scott. But both removed themselves from the list. Another candidate, Yale University Professor Judith Rodin, turned down Radcliffe's offer. The Board of Trustees should not have been surprised. What committed academic would want to be the president of a college consisting solely of three programs...