June 1, 2001

Tenure Denial Sparks Protests at Chicago-Kent College of Law; Legal Scholar Gives Up Endowed Chair at Pepperdine to Become Dean at Catholic U.

By ANA MARIE COX and KATHERINE S. MANGAN

I FOUGHT THE LAW: After the faculty at the Chicago-Kent College of Law voted 22 to 1 in favor of granting Molly Lien tenure in March, Ms. Lien gave herself (and her husband) a trip to Florence. It was a reward for finally reaching the finish line in an eight-year journey, extended from the usual three because of Ms. Lien's administrative duties as director of Chicago-Kent's legal-writing program. When she got back, she found the finish line was a dead end: The dean of the law school overruled

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