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These conflicts were most visible with the tenure votes on Daniel Tarullo, David Trubek and Clare Dalton--in 1985, 1986 and 1987, respectively. Denied promotions amidst allegations of political bias, the three scholars were adherents of the radical Critical Legal Studies (CLS), a school of thought holding that the law is rooted in dominant social norms and not abstract notions of justice...
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...
...Short of a Draconian right-wing purge, which I don't imagine would happen there, CLS professors will continue to gain tenure at Harvard," Trubek predicts. "Somebody will, not this year, not in the immediate future, but CLS will continue to influence the Harvard faculty no matter what they...
...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...