Region Western philosophy Areas of interest Jurisprudence Role Philosopher | Name Duncan Kennedy Main interests Legal philosophy | |
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Born 1942 (age 73–74) Washington, D.C. Influenced Louis Michael Seidman, Gary Peller Books Legal Education and the R, A Critique of Adjudication, Sexy dressing - etc, The Rise and Fall of Classical, The Birth and Death of a Highl Similar People Gary Peller, Louis Michael Seidman, Cornel West | ||
Professor duncan kennedy harvard global dialogue on the future of legal education
Duncan Kennedy (born 1942) is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a founder of critical legal studies as movement and school of thought.
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- Professor duncan kennedy harvard global dialogue on the future of legal education
- Education and early career
- Academic work and influence
- References
Education and early career
Kennedy received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1964 and then worked for two years in the CIA operation that controlled the National Student Association. In 1966 he rejected his "cold war liberalism." He quit the CIA and in 1970 earned an LL.B. from Yale Law School. After completing a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Kennedy joined the Harvard Law School faculty, becoming a full professor in 1976. In March 2010 he received an Honoris Causa (honorary degree) Ph.D. title from the University of the Andes in Colombia.
Kennedy has been a member of the American Civil Liberties Union since 1967. According to his own testimony, he has never forgotten to pay his dues.
Academic work and influence
In 1977, together with Karl Klare, Mark Kelman, Roberto Unger, and other scholars, Kennedy established the Critical Legal Studies movement. Outside legal academia, he is mostly known for his monograph Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy*[1], famous for its trenchant critique of American legal education.