Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Would she do it again? "Yes, absolutely," said Jackson. "I know I'm right--I know it better than I did when I started it." Nonetheless, Jackson acknowledges that the decision to sue is a difficult one--Harvard, as she has learned, is a tough legal adversary...
Jackson's experience, combined with other highly-publicized discrimination suits against the University in recent years, may prove a model for helping women decide in the future whether to take their disputes with Harvard into the legal arena...
Clare Dalton, the former assistant professor at the Law School who was denied tenure by the law faculty and unsucessfully appealed that decision to President Bok, is currently weighing the merits of continuing a legal suit she filed last November. Her lawyer, Nancy Gertner, said the two will decide whether to pursue the law suit sometime this summer...
Dalton's lawyer, Gertner, said if it were up to her the law professor's case would be in court immediately. But Dalton, who was unavailable for comment, has to face the possibilities of a long and draining legal battle against Harvard that could, as in Jackson's case, take nearly a decade to resolve...
Discrimination can be particularly hard to prove in a legal sense because of the subtleties involved, Skocpol observed. "A lot of what happens in these situations are not even things people are conscious of doing, which is why a legal forum is not really a very sensitive place to deal with discrimination," said Skocpol, whose dispute with the University began when she was initially denied tenure...