Word: parkers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Parker: I think, by and large, Bok's diagnosis is absolutely correct...
...Parker: My view would be that there are, in law, bases for all sorts of arguments critical of the status quo and of the people whom you're referring to, Charles. And I think that insufficient resources have been allocated to those who would make arguments critical of the status quo, but the resources for making those arguments are there in the law. I'm not as vulgar a Marxist as you are, Charles. That's what I'm trying to say. I don't believe the law is strictly the instrument of the ruling class...
...Parker: I think that's nonsense...
...Parker: I would say, briefly, that the education at this law school is getting gradually better and better and better. I think there's a great deal more variety here than there was 15 years ago, and that most-of the changes that make for that variety have been in a very good direction. I think it's certainly true and deplorable that a vast majority of our students go on to a very narrow sort of work in corporate law, but I don't believe that's the fault of the law school. I think it's problem rooted...
Fried: I think that the assumptions that Richard Parker states are totally wrong in a number of important ways. First of all, there is no great problem about where our students are going. The fact of the matter is that our students are disproportionately influential in the governing of the country rather than not sufficiently represented. I would think that if you look at the major bureaucracies, if you look at state, local and federal government, that Harvard Law School graduates are there, present and powerful to a remarkable degree. In fact, it's really hard to imagine...