CLS may refer to:

Academic fields

Critical legal studies Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s.Alan Hunt, "The Theory of Critical Legal Studies," Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1986): 1-45, esp. 1, 5. Se DOI, 10.1 ...

, school of legal philosophy * Constrained least square statistical estimator * CLs method to set bounds on particle physics model parameters * The .cls file extension, used to hold LaTeX manuscripts - see LaTeX Compatibility and converters

Education

California Labor School The California Labor School (until 1945 named the Tom Mooney Labor School) was an educational organization in San Francisco from 1942 to 1957. Like the contemporary Jefferson School of Social Science and the New York Workers School, it represent ...

, San Francisco, US 1942–57 *

City of London School , established = , closed = , type = Public school Boys' independent day school , president = , head_label = Headmaster , head = Alan Bird , chair_label = Chair of Governors , chair = Ian Seaton , founder = John Carpenter , special ...

, UK * Covington Latin School, Kentucky, US *

Crystal Lake South High School Crystal Lake South High School, often referred to as "South" or "CLS," is one of three high schools in Crystal Lake, Illinois, and currently has a body of roughly 1916 students. As Crystal Lake's second oldest school, it was constructed from 1976 ...

, Illinois, US * Chicago Law School at The University of Chicago, US *

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (Columbia Law or CLS) is the law school of Columbia University, a private Ivy League university in New York City. Columbia Law is widely regarded as one of the most prestigious law schools in the world and has always ranked ...

at Columbia University, US *

Cornell Law School Cornell Law School is the law school of Cornell University, a private Ivy League university in Ithaca, New York. One of the five Ivy League law schools, it offers four law degree programs, JD, LLM, MSLS and JSD, along with several dual-deg ...

at Cornell University, US * Coalition of Latino and Latina Scholars at Teachers College, Columbia University, US * Critical Language Scholarship Program of the US State Department

Societies and associations

* Caribbean Labour Solidarity, based in London, UK *

Chicago Linguistic Society The Chicago Linguistic Society (or CLS) is one of the oldest student-run organizations in the United States, based at the University of Chicago. Although its exact foundation date is obscure, according to Eric Hamp Eric Pratt Hamp (November 16, ...

* Christian Legal Society * Communist League of Struggle, US, 1931-1937

Software and technology

Cable landing station A cable landing point is the location where a submarine or other underwater cable makes landfall. The term is most often used for the landfall points of submarine telecommunications cables and submarine power cables. The landing will either be ...

, where a submarine cable comes ashore *

Common Language Specification The Common Language Infrastructure (CLI) is an open specification and technical standard originally developed by Microsoft and standardized by International Organization for Standardization, ISO/International Electrotechnical Commission, IEC ...

, Microsoft * CLS (command) to clear computer screen in several environments ** CLS (CONFIG.SYS directive), in DR-DOS * Creative Lighting System, in Nikon speedlights

Medical and science

Computational Science Computational science, also known as scientific computing or scientific computation (SC), is a field in mathematics that uses advanced computing capabilities to understand and solve complex problems. It is an area of science that spans many disc ...

, an academical research discipline *

Canadian Light Source The Canadian Light Source (CLS) (french: link=no, Centre canadien de rayonnement synchrotron – CCRS) is Canada's national synchrotron light source facility, located on the grounds of the University of Saskatchewan in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, ...

, a synchrotron light source * Clinical laboratory science, another name for Medical Technology or Medical Laboratory Science * Combat lifesaver, US non-medical military role

Music

City of London Sinfonia City of London Sinfonia (CLS) is an English chamber orchestra based in London. CLS performs regularly across the city of London in venues from East London clubs to traditional Central London concert halls. CLS is orchestra-in-residence at Oper ...

* CLS Music, a record label * Cali Life Style, a Hip Hop act

Transportation and vehicles

* Capsule launch system for

space capsule A space capsule is an often-crewed spacecraft that uses a blunt-body reentry capsule to reenter the Earth's atmosphere without wings. Capsules are distinguished from other satellites primarily by the ability to survive reentry and return a paylo ...

s * Mercedes-Benz CLS-Class, automobile models

Business and finance

* CLS Group, a global financial market utility * Celestica, New York Stock Exchange symbol *

CLS Communication CLS Communication, now named Lionbridge Switzerland AG, is a language translation, editing and writing services company based in Switzerland. It has 19 offices on three continents, and serves the financial services, life sciences, telecommunicat ...

, translation services * CLS Holdings, UK investment company *

Core Labor Standards Labor rights or workers' rights are both legal rights and human rights relating to labor relations between workers and employers. These rights are codified in national and international labor and employment law. In general, these rights i ...

, ILO {{disambig