Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accordance with the new immigration laws that Congress passed last year, all Harvard employees hired since 1986 must prove to the University they are legal U.S. residents. This undertaking will cost Harvard $10,000 since the University has created two new jobs to process the 3000 to 4000 forms, in what is rapidly becoming a bureaucratic nightmare...
...which liberal groups say is a referendum onacademic freedom at Harvard. More than 200 lawprofessors have signed a letter expressing concernover Bok's slow response to the Dalton vote andhis decision to override tenure for VisitingProfessor of Law David Trubek, another left-wingscholar. Like Trubek, Dalton is associated withCritical Legal Studies, a movement which holdsthat the law is rooted in dominant social normsand not abstract notions of justice...
...itas: Phillips Brooks House (PBH)barely escaped catastrophe in late July when oneof its vans, filled far beyond legal capacity with26 inner-city children, flipped over aMassachusetts Turnpike guardrail. Although thechildren suffered only minor injuries, the21-year-old driver was charged with "operating toendanger" for over-loading the vehicle, which wascarrying participants of the "Keylatch" summerprogram to an amusement park in southernMassachusetts. The accident raised questions aboutthe training PBH van drivers receive and promptedPBH to review its driving policies...
Dalton Redux: In an unprecedented move,President Bok announced that he will ask a groupof 15 outside legal experts--who overwhelminglysupported Dalton during her initial tenure bid inthe spring--to evaluate the arguments of heropponents in the Law Faculty. Bok's decision toseek advice from the experts signaled to manyobservers an admission of flaws within the LawSchool's tenure process, which Dalton and herattorney Nancy Gertner charge is "terriblyunfair...
...years after the government gave full recognition to black unions in 1979, Ramaphosa collected his law degree and joined the legal staff of the Council of South African Unions, a black labor organization that was trying to form a national black miners' union. Ramaphosa became the mine workers' general secretary the following year and learned a string of hard lessons when he led three strikes that lasted no longer than 48 hours each. Yet the union's membership grew steadily, and its tactics became bolder. Said Johannesburg's Business Day of last month's walkout: "The union demonstrated an impressive...