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L AW SCHOOL NEWS by Donna Prokop ests to ee which areas of legal interest should be developed. Toward this end, he pledged to seek the funds to pay for endowed chairs for at least 10 new facul• ty positions. •'If we are fortunate in our fund-raising efforts, the number of new positions could be significantly larger," Clark said. Clark, 44, was named earlier this year by Harvard President Derek Bok to suc- ceed outgoing dean James Vorenberg, who returned to teaching this fall. ••• TWENTY LAW students nation- wide - including 1:l from California - have been awarded a total of $21,000 in scholarships from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educationa!Fund for the 1989-90 academic year. This year's top applicant is Luis E. Lo- pez of La Mesa, who was awarded the $2 .000 Valerie Kantor Memorial Scholar• ship. Lopez is entering his third year of law school at the University of San Diego. - Lopez has worked investigating unfair labor practices and negotiating settle· ments with labor unions for California Rural Legal Assistance and theAgricul• tural Labor Relations Board. He plans to practice labor law. MALDEF also awarded 19 $1,000 scholarships to other Hispanic law stu• dents. The students were chosen on th< basis of their commitment to the Hispan• ic community, financial need and academ- ic achievement, according to MALDEF spokeswoman Diane Palmiotti. Teresa Alva was awarded the $1,000 Judge Louis Garcia Award, the scholar- ship presented to an outstanding San Francisco Bay area applicant. Alva began

The controversial critical legal studies movement that has rocked Harvard Law School in recent years with its leftist ide- ology is not a hot a commodity today m the academic legal world a it once was. according to Harvard· s new dean. Roben C. Clark, the conservative cor• porate law professor who took over as dean in July, said m an interview in this month' Harvard Law Bulletin that he till has disagreements with advocates of critical legal studies, which has sharply polarized faculty members at Harvard and led to several high-publicity tenure battles. "Crits," as believers are known, hold that the law isn't a natural force but is in- herently biased. favoring the haves in so- ciety over the have-nots. About a dozen of the chool's 57 tenured faculty adhere to the philosophy. "I disagree now, as I did a few years ago, with the anti-rational and highly cyn- ical strain in some CLS thinking," said Clark. "On the other hand, I have a strong sense that the spirit of the CLS movement and the themes pursued by its most active scholars have been changing. "Advocates seem to be entering a 'po t-indeterminacy' period, where they no longer argue much about the claim that the law is wholly indeterminate and all legal activity is therefore political,'· he said. "I think they are getting tired of sounding that theme, which re.ally hasn't caught on well outside the movement." Clark said he believes CLS activity "has matured ... (and) in terms of the politics, many people are mellower," easing the tensions among faculty mem- bers at Harvard Law. As dean, however, Clark pledged to encourage faculty to "be free to disagree with one another about such intellectual issues." On other topics, Clark said he has ere• ated a new committee, called the Com• prehensive Curricular Assessment Committee, to evaluate thP ~rhnol's cur• Los Angeles,CA inter• ( Los Angeles Co.) Times

her first year at San Francisco's Golden Gate Universi.Ql.this fall. The other California recipients of $1,000 scholarships are: • Jorge T. Cabrera, of Los Angeles, who is entering his second year at Peo- ple's C Uege of the Law in Los Angeles. • Manuel J. Diaz, of Rosemead, who is entenng his first year at UCLA School of Law, and is interested in children's rights and education. • Juan M. Garcia, of Placentia, a first• year law student at Harvard. • Evelyn J. Herrera, of Los Angeles, a first-year student at Santa..!Jara Univer• sity School of Law. • Roberto Longoria, of Los Angeles, third year at Loyola Law School. • William S. Martin, of Lakewood, first-year student at Harvard Law School who is interested in international law and human rights. • Jose A. Ortega, of La Puente, enter- ing his second year at Western State Uni- versity School of Law. • Gilbert B. Rivera, of Baldwin Park, a first-year law student at UCLA. • Rey Marcelo Rodriguez, of La Jolla, a first-year student at Boalt Hall. • Jesus L. Romero, of Calexico, who entered his third year at the UDiversity of San Diego School of Law. - • • • LAW SCHOOL BRIEFS: The USC Law Center is offering a new course ex• ploring the legal rights and responsibil- ities of domestic partners - unmarried couples living together in long-term rela- tionships. The class is the only one of its kind in the nation, according to Los An• geles attorney Thomas F. Coleman, who is teaching the course. The course will focus on the rights of domestic partners, how changing demographics affect public policy, the freedom of intimate associa- tion, employment rights and benefits, and co-parenting. /

~f.n. '• ,. C. B Esr. I U8 'Confusion' blamed for f e:-~riests Ce£·bacy not cause, [[__SD prgfessor says A San Diego priest says that "doc- trinal confusion" in the Roman Cath- olic Church, not the priestly celibacy rule, is the principal cause for the current shortage of priests in the church. "There is no data to substantiate the idea that the small number of vocations in the Catholic Church is due to the celibacy rule for priests " said the Rev Raymond Ryland, pr~- fessor m the Religious Studies De- partment at the University of San Diego. '.'I ~on't think there is any," Ryland said m a talk sponsored by The Cath- olic Forum this week at St. Mary Magdalene Catholic Church. "There are plenty of vocations," Ryland said. "God always gives the church as many vocations as it needs. The problem is in the lack of response." Ryland said Catholic seminaries in Asia and Africa teach sound Catholic doctrine and have no shortage of vo- cations. "The shortage in the Catholic By Robert Di Veroli Tribune Religion Writer Church is precisely in those areas m- fested with theological dissension - heresy, if you please," Ryland said. The ~ev. Avery Dulles, a Jesuit theologian, also says the celibacy rule is not the principal cause of the current priest shortage. Celibacy "has been rigorously en- forced since the Middle Ages and we've had an abundance of ~oca- tions," Dulles said in an interview with the San Francisco Catholic. Dulles, formerly of Catholic Uni- versity of America and now at Ford- ham University, said the problem is a lack of commitment to the obliga- tion of celibacy, a lack apparently due "partly to theological changes and partly to social conditions." He said the vocation's decline is primarily a North American and West European phenomenon. Despite continued Vatican resist- ance, so~e Catholics continue to pro- mote the idea of optional celibacy for Catb~lic p~iests. Some argue that a marned priesthood would relieve the priest shortage. The same argument has been advanced in favor of the priesthOOd for women, which the Catholic Church, alon}with the East- ern Orthodox churche , forbids. Please see PRIESTS: ·9, Col 6

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~SD UniversityCenter D~cated Jo Benefact~r~est,Jean Hahn - /1__,/ff; . • The University ·tennr at · lhe spent on expanding and remodeling Diversity of San Diego campus- the old law library, now th~ ne~ here services including Legal Research Center, which IS e student cafeteria, faculty, and eXP,ected to be compl~ted next taff lounge, and' the office of summer.

tudent affairs make lheir home:- as dedicated Friday in the name f two benefactors. The center, built for $11 million years ago, was renamed the ~est and Jean Hahn University enter, a USD spokesman said. To get the center built, Ernest ahn, a seven-year member of ~SD's Board-ol Trustees, raised $7 million, included his own contribu- \ions. The'remaining $4 million w~ Jinanced with state bonds, said ohn Nunes, a USD,spokesman. Hahn also has helped raise $24.7 'lllon, within a two-year span, ugh the University's Capital palgn Executive Committee. The capital campalgn, expected last anoth two ar • should ch its $47.5-milllon ,oal. IChool fl&ll aald. When It does, $31 n will go toward faculty en- wments and student scholar- . "The aim ill to tmprove and tain the quality of faculty and "Nunes Ill.Id. million bu been

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