Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those shadowy units seem to be expanding their business again. Human-rights groups estimate that death-squad activity -- the kidnaping and killing by unidentified gunmen of civilians suspected of leftist sympathies -- has trebled since last year. One rights group, Tutela Legal, identified 24 undisputed death-squad killings in all of 1987; this year's toll stood at 21 by the end of April. (By comparison, Tutela counted 29 executions of civilians by the guerrillas in 1987, vs. 17 so far this year.) Most Salvadorans believe the upsurge in right-wing terrorism is the work of military men frustrated by their...
...Harvard's 6400 undergraduates are involved in PBH's 36 committees, and alumni interest in the programs is so great that PBH has already surpassed its $600,000 fund drive goal. The programs range from working with the homeless to sponsoring summer camps for urban children to providing legal advice for the unemployed to supporting the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers...
Dalton's case was the latest chapter in the Law School's struggle over Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a radical school of legal thought which holds that the law reflects social and economic values, and not abstract principles...
...decision to deny Dalton's appeal--based on the advice of a five-member committee of outside legal experts--reopened old wounds. More than 50 members of the Women's Law Students Association abruptly confronted Bok at a private Quincy House dinner two days after his decision, and in the most unusual episode of the debate, Professor of Law Charles Nesson made his views known through a tape recorded message distributed to the Law School faculty. They all said Bok's committee was prejudiced against Dalton's political beliefs...
...disputes had to do exclusively with specific appointments," Vorenberg said. "I don't think that's kept the faculty from experimenting with new aspects of legal education. If one looks at the 1980s, and asks whether it was a period of change or a period of standing still, I think the former is a fairer characterization...