Word: legalize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This can't be the 11th annual Critical Legal Studies National Conference. I cannot believe the 400 or so people around me include professors who have for years bedeviled the Harvard Law School tenure process, people whom President Reagan called "a misplaced monster of prehistoric radicalism...
Despite their deceiving appearence, these blue jean-clad scholars are the root of a legal education movement which former Harvard Assistant Professor of Clare Dalton says has caused a "crisis of faith" at law schools nationwide...
...Critical Legal Studies [CLS] charges that scholars cannot viewed the law objectively but must take into account the social and economic value judgements on which it is based...
...critique of traditional legal thought and how law is made," says Pat DePace, a second-year American University law student. Traditional legal scholars "try to teach you it's like the Ten Commandments coming down from the mountain, and that it's always right. CLS people tell [you] politics of the time and the social climate have an effect on the decisions that are made. There's a lot more aspects...
...very diffuse movement that consists more of themes than of precisely delineated views," says Jim G. Pope, assistant professor at Rutgers Law School. "Themes are that legal decision is a process of choice, including a value choice, and that those choices should be made in a way. That liberate people in various forms of oppression...