Word: trubek
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard is already a CLS stronghold," says Daniel Trubek, a law professor at the University of Wisconsin. "The presence of a prominent left at Harvard is a permanent presence. It's had an immense impact on Harvard. Harvard turns out a significant percentage of all law professors...
...Trubek himself found out that other voices have significant impacts on legal education at Harvard. In 1987, he and Dalton lost their bids for tenure at Harvard in controversial faculty votes and ensuing reviews by President Bok. CLS supporters have charged that in both instances the faculty discriminated against the left-wing scholars for their adherence to CLS, a charge which has taken the CLS debate from the classroom to the national news...
Right-wing and moderate Harvard Law School professors counter that argument, saying that Trubek and Dalton did meet the school's tenure standards. This spring, Bok, acting on the advice of a review committee of experts, upheld the faculty's decision to deny Dalton tenure...
...However, Trubek says left-wing thought will always be a part of legal education, even at Harvard...
Opponents of CLS used this policy successfullyto convince Bok to review the Trubek case, andsupporters of the movement used the same tactic toask for Bok's second look at the Dalton case...