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When the search for a new Law School dean began last spring, faculty members said they were optimistic that President Bok would include them in the process of naming a successor to outgoing dean James Vorenberg...
After Bok chose Vorenberg in 1981--largely without faculty input--law professors resolved to elect their own search committee to advise the next dean search, hoping to ensure that the president would appoint a dean to their liking...
...When Vorenberg announced his resignation last spring, faculty members said they hoped Bok would pick a conciliatory candidate to take over--a professor who would bring the Law School's factions together...
Professor of Law Derrick A. Bell's dramatic call for affirmative action in faculty appointments last fall followed a student sit-in at the office of Dean James Vorenberg '49 in the spring. Later, campus conservatives complained that they were not fairly represented on a student dean search committee which reserved two seats for members of the minority Coalition for Diversity. After a bitter campaign, the student body roundly rejected a proposal by the conservative Students' Alliance for Fairness to prevent seats in future ad hoc committees from being reserved for specific groups...
...although the selection of Vorenberg's successor has so far overshadowed the activity of a planning committee, formed last February, the committee's work may prove more influential in the long run. "The new dean may have special interests they [sic] want to push, but the long-range planning is something that has been ongoing and is generally agreed on by everyone," says Associate Dean Andrew L. Kaufman...