Word: trubek
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...latest of the visiting professors,Wisconsin Law School Professor David Trubek, wasgranted tenure by the faculty last spring, but hisappointment was reversed by Bok after a minorityof opponents charged that the scholar was tenuredfor political reasons. The decision representedthe first time that a president had reversed thevote of the law faculty in recent memory...
...decision to intervene in Trubek's casewas the first implementation of a policy,announced in 1985, that called for the presidentto intervene in Law School tenure cases if therewere charges of polical bias...
Another CLS adherent, Visiting Professor David Trubek from the University of Wisconsin Law School, was offered a tenured position by the faculty last spring. But Bok reversed the faculty's decision for the first time in the Law School's history and rescinded the offer...
Both these cases smoldered throughout the spring and summer. Dalton threatened to sue the University if Bok did not tenure her, and Trubek coined the phrase "the Beirut of legal education" to describe Harvard Law School...
Stewart Macauley, a professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School, continued his colleague Trubek's metaphor. "I don't want to move to Beirut," he said. "There may be wonderful things going on in Beirut, but you and I don't know...