Word: law
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...Charles J. Ogletree, a visiting professor at the Law School and a proponent of Clinical Legal Studies, announces he has accepted the school's offer of tenure. The decision, which makes Ogletree the school's fourth Black faculty member, is viewed as a sign of the school's continued commitment to the radical scholarly movement under newly-appointed Dean Robert C. Clark...
...About 60 Law School students protest the school's absence of Hispanic faculty members. The demonstration occurs exactly one year after members of the Black Law Students Association held a 24-hour sit-in to protest the dearth of Black professors...
...April meeting, just as the Nominating Committee was set to name Goldmark, an opposing overseer raised an obscure by-law and declared the committee invalid. The rule, which requires that members of the commitee evenly represent each of the six years of overseers seniority, derailed the nomination. At the time, two overseers on the committee were elected to the Board from the same year...
Goldmark's nomination was tabled, ironically violating another by-law requiring that a presidential nominee be forwarded no later than the April meeting. After that meeting, sources say Goldmark, who would not comment on the matter, removed his name from consideration...
Along with Mitropoulis came a cadre of other top advisors from the Massachusetts governor's ill-fated campaign. Professor of Law Susan R. Estrich--Dukakis' campaign manager--resumed full-time occupancy in her office in Griswold Hall at the Law School, and Professor of Law Christopher F. Edley--the governor's national issues director--joined her in the trip back to Cambridge...