Word: legalism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...basic slant on what I'm trying to do is make the Law School one of the greatest centers of thought on legal education in the world, with the best teaching and scholarship," Clark said...
...professors contacted yesterday said they were concerned that Clark--an outspoken critic of the Law School's left wing and radical scholars--would deepen the already serious ideological rifts in the faculty. Clark has often criticized adherents of the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS) movement, who say that the law is an instrument of social injustice...
...disaster for the Law School at a time when we needed someone to help restore trust within the faculty," said Warren Professor of Legal History Morton J. Horwitz, a CLS adherent. "We have instead somebody who by temperament, ideology and educational outlook is most likely to polarize the faculty...
...Clark, who has called the CLS movement "deeply pernicious," and urged that it be "combatted in legal education," said yesterday he did not intend to persecute the radical scholars or purge them from the school...
...start with the [Critical Legal Studies students. The trouble with many students is that they do not have the faintest idea of how one goes about proving something. They have no experience with sound techniques for acquiring reliable knowledge or determining whether a belief that is essential to a value choice is well grounded or not. In my courses, this is evidenced over and over again, and I am always moved to exasperation when it occurs...