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...praise Clark for having quieted down an unruly faculty in the early ’90s, many believe this “quieting down” amounted to a victory of conservatism over a then-emergent movement in progressive legal thought. The article also fails to note that under Clark??s watch the faculty has diversified at a snail’s pace; white men today still make up more than 75 percent of those with tenure...
Finally, the article neglects to mention the fact that in the eyes of many, Clark??s devotion to fundraising has come at a price: the influence of and esteem granted to corporate law at the law school has gone through the roof, while students and faculty concerned with public service and public interest lawyering have had to play a perennial second fiddle. Indeed, early on Clark famously abolished the school’s Office of Public Interest Advising, only to be forced under pressure to reverse his decision...
...fair and complete reckoning of Dean Clark??s tenure would have taken into account these weaknesses, along with his clear successes...
Summers said he would be appointing a faculty committee to advise him in the search for Clark??s successor. All of the deans in recent memory have come from within HLS—a tradition which professors said they hoped would continue...
According to Dershowitz, Fried and others, no individual issues stand out for the next dean as they did at the beginning of Clark??s tenure...