Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These conflicts were most visible with the tenure votes on Daniel Tarullo, David Trubek and Clare Dalton--in 1985, 1986 and 1987, respectively. Denied promotions amidst allegations of political bias, the three scholars were adherents of the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a school of thought holding that the law is rooted in dominant social norms and not abstract notions of justice...
...studies program, which supplements classroom work with hands-on advocacy experience. Having started its clinical studies program in the early 1970s, Harvard is widely regarded as a pioneer in the field. The program has evolved and, under Vorenberg, grown over the years; currently it includes such projects as a legal aid clinic to help AIDS patients...
...insult to injury, it was a Harvard Law School dean who maneuvered the proposal past the city's legal defenses and onto the ballot. City councillors declared a war of words against Harvard when Dean James M. Landis, head of the Cambridge Committee for Plan E, helped force the proposal onto Cambridge's November 1938 ballot...
During the meeting, we presented Bok with a petition signed by over 3000 students urging the University to remain neutral during the union election. We told Bok that we understood the administration was within its legal rights to wage an anti-union campaign; we were asking the administration to hold itself to a higher standard. He quickly and unapologetically confirmed what we had feared--that despite what we are taught, moral pressure has no place in the grown-up world of university politics...
Lawyers for the Legal Action Center for the Homeless claim that though the law requires stores to take up to 240 returns a day per customer, some refuse to accept more than ten. The suit alleges that grocers have given in to pressure from beverage bottlers and distributors not to accept the containers so that the distributors can keep unclaimed deposits, which last year totaled nearly $80 million. Bottlers say supermarkets don't want to hassle with returns...