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Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations (Studies in Legal History)

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The development of the brand new Yale Law School is deeply intertwined with the story of a group of students within the 1960s who worked to unlock democratic visions of law and social change that they associated with Yale’s past and with the social climate wherein they lived. Right through a charged moment within the history of the US, activists challenged senior professors, and the resulting clash pitted young against old in a very human story. By demanding changes in admissions, curriculum, grading, and law practice, Laura Kalman argues, these students transformed Yale Law School and the way forward for American legal education.

Inspired by Yale’s legal realists of the 1930s, Yale law students between 1967 and 1970 spawned a movement that celebrated participatory democracy, black power, feminism, and the counterculture. After these students left, the repercussions hobbled the school for years. Senior law professors determined against retaining six junior scholars who had witnessed their conflict with the students within the early 1970s, shifted the school’s academic center of attention from sociology to economics, and steered clear of critical legal studies. Satirically, explains Kalman, students of the 1960s helped to create a culture of timidity until an imaginative dean within the 1980s tapped into and domesticated the spirit of the sixties, helping to make Yale’s current celebrity conceivable.

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