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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 But Bok reversed the faculty's decision for the first time in the Law School's history and rescinded the offer...
...addition, last spring a large majority of the faculty voted to offer Visiting Professor David Trubek of the University of Wisconsin a lateral appointment, but Bok overturned that decision at the request of a small group of professors. Trubek, a crit, was opposed by the conservatives. This case was the first time the president of the University overturned a decision of the Law School faculty...
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...
...professors throughout thecountry have offered their input into the case,which liberal groups say is a referendum onacademic freedom at Harvard. More than 200 lawprofessors have signed a letter expressing concernover Bok's slow response to the Dalton vote andhis decision to override tenure for VisitingProfessor of Law David Trubek, another left-wingscholar. Like Trubek, Dalton is associated withCritical Legal Studies, a movement which holdsthat the law is rooted in dominant social normsand not abstract notions of justice...