Word: lawness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More than a month ago President Derek C. Bok appointed the outspoken Robert C. Clark as Law School dean, saying that it was time for the divided faculty to put aside its political differences and concentrate on other academic issues...
This week, the faculty made its first tenure decisions in at least three years, unanimously approving offers for Assistant Professors of Law Randall Kennedy and Kathleen M. Sullivan. Although those tenure bids do not necessarily mark the end of the school's ideological controversy, they at least mark the end of its most recent chapter...
Kennedy and Sullivan--whose tenure offers await only the formal approval of the governing boards--were the last of the group of young professors whose presence on the law faculty eventually resulted in a stalled tenure process...
...early 1980s, the Law School recruited a group of young assistant professors--affectionately called the "shrimps"--who stood apart from the faculty in their backgrounds. The "shrimps" were more diverse than the faculty--there were three women and one Black--and they were generally more liberal than their colleagues...
...designing effective public policy, they would have selected Madigan, who was instrumental in the drafting of the massive 1985 Farm Bill. Gingrich, in contrast, could be the most incompetent legislator in Congress. Of the 26 pieces of legislation he has sponsored during his House tenure, only two have become law. Both of these were resolutions which had no practical effect...