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...Nesson claims that then-dean Erwin N. Griswold effectively imposed "his image of what it meant to be a faculty member at the Harvard Law School" on the professors...
Those who disagree with Nesson's portraya' of the faculty believe faculty disagreements are more complex Law School Dean James Vorenberg '49 says. It's much too simplistic to divide the faculty along one line." He and others contend that the Law faculty divides along many different lines on different issues...
...Nesson not only believes the split is intense, but describes it as "the fundamental problem of the school." In fact, he sees the problem as so important that, in his memorandum, he recommends delaying discussions of the Michelman Report--a three-year evaluation of the Law School's curriculum and teaching methods--until after the faculty has dealt with the split Nesson says that the disagreements inevitably generated by a heated curriculum debate will only widen the faculty rift...
...Nesson's Law School colleagues do not agree on this point, and the faculty began consideration of the report last month. The faculty did, however, discuss Nesson's memo at one of its weekly meetings...
Probably the most controversial part of Nesson's memo is his characterization of the Law School during the sixties. "When I came here in 1966," he says, "the atmosphere of the school was stifling...