Word: vorenberg
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...Student leaders said that more needed to be done to stop the rapid disappearance of minority voices on the law faculty, while Dean James Vorenberg ’48 insisted that it was proving difficult to find qualified minority scholars who should be granted tenure...
...Bell had left Cambridge in 1980 to become the dean of the University of Oregon Law School, and the BLSA wanted Vorenberg to find a tenured black professor to teach the popular race theory course, “Constitutional Law and Minority Issues,” that Bell had taught...
...letter, the BLSA threatened to lead a boycott of the new course in order to get the administration’s attention. In response, Vorenberg penned a missive to the school’s returning students and enclosed the BLSA letter as well...
...move opened a debate that had until that point been kept behind closed doors. Vorenberg held fast to Harvard’s longstanding position that it could not find qualified tenure-track faculty members because the pool of such scholars was limited...
...didn’t want to go work for Goldman Sachs. Then I got to law school and I realized, “Oh my God, what am I doing?”...I took a couple of undergraduate creative writing classes and I persuaded this professor named James Vorenberg [’48]...to let me write my third-year paper...as a creative third-year paper. I sort of wrote a spec script for “Law & Order?...