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Coming on the heels of a month-long controversy over Clark's support for public interest law, faculty members said yesterday the new Kaufman fellowships gave an indication that the new dean's priorities lie with creating financial incentives to enter non-traditional legal careers...
...hopeful that this will be more representative of the future direction of Bob Clark's deanship than the more symbolic actions he's taken so far," said Tyler Professor of Constitutional Law Laurence A. Tribe...
Clark has drawn fire from students and faculty for his decision this summer to eliminate the school's public interest placement office in an effort to cut costs. Despite his promise to transfer the office's responsibilities to a general placement office, 1055 law students have signed a petition demanding that Clark restore the full-time public interest counselors...
...Kaufman fellowships, Clark said, represent a chance "to actually make a difference" with financial help to graduates who enter public interest law...
...judge on the Court of Appeals he wrote anumber of very important and influential opinionson the First Amendment," said Tribe, a notedconstitutional law scholar...