Word: movements
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...think [the turnout] shows that although there's a lot of academic repression at a lot of institutions, CLS is still a very strong movement," says American University Professor of Law James Boyle, the t-shirt-clad director of the convention...
...developed the critique of law-we are an educational movement," Trubek says. "We also see there are limits to what can be done within this effort. The people who were most interested in the theoretical project and educational project are also very much in favor of practical applications...
...last couple of years the CLS movement has gone through a positive transformation, largely through the addition of minority voices that weren't a part of the movement before," Drury says...
...while CLS professors--who are predominately white--say they are fighting for more diversity at law schools, outsiders charge the movement itself is exclusive...