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Politics and ideology forced the normally staid law faculty into warring factions. And Vorenberg, unable to resolve the political infighting, asked President Derek C. Bok to intervene--prompting charges that the law faculty had lost its autonomy by calling in the president. In the end, none of the CLS scholars received tenure, as Bok reversed the faculty vote granting Dalton tenure and later confirmed the faculty's vote to deny a post to Trubek...
Despite all the controversy, though, sources say Vorenberg backed both Trubek and Dalton in their attempts to win promotion...
...Vorenberg "tried very hard to arrive at his own considered judgments on each case and to state those judgments candidly," says Professor of Law Frank I. Michelman. "And he tried to state his judgments in a fashion that was moderate and non-adversarial...
...Still, Vorenberg maintains that support for scholarly diversity has been one of his goals during his tenure as dean--and he says he is convinced that intellectual pluralism will result from some of the changes proposed in the long-range planning report. For example, both individual effort and Law School funding will be devoted to hiring more international law experts and to integrating a global perspective into the basic curriculum, he says...
...faculty has "about 10 members who care a lot about the international field," says Vorenberg. "We need more than anything another three, four or five for whom it is the most important work." He adds that he would support the creation of fellowships to encourage graduates to pursue interests in international...