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And although the environment at the Law School is certainly not free of contention, Wilkins points out that while in legal practice differences of opinion are divisive, "we in the legal academy have the luxury, if we choose, to make our differences our strengths."
Although Wilkins shies away from addressing the issue of last year's controversy over faculty diversity, he says that the discussions have had a positive effect of forcing people to think about the issue.
Wilkins was tenured in the midst of student protests and sit-ins over the lack of diversity in Law School faculty. In addition, Derrick A. Bell Jr., former Weld professor of law, refused the return the Harvard after a two-year leave of absence to protest the school's hiring...
Throughout his career at Harvard, Wilkins sees his role as questioning the adversarial view of the legal profession and positing a different paradigm, one that will be theoretically satisfying and practically attainable.
Wilkins observes that the Law School, like any entrenched institution, has been slow to respond to the new scholarship on legal ethics which has developed over the past decade.