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Duncan Kennedy (b. 1942 in Washington D.C.) is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
 and a founder of critical legal studies
Critical legal studies

Critical legal studies refers to a movement in legal thought that applied methods similar to those of critical theory to law. The abbreviations "CLS" and "Crit" are sometimes used to refer to the movement and its adherents....
 as movement and school of thought.

Education and early career
Kennedy received an A.B.
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 from Harvard College
Harvard College

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 in 1964 and then worked for two years in the CIA operation that controlled the National Student Association
National Student Association

The United States National Student Association, a confederation of United States college and university student governments, was founded in 1947 at a conference at the University of Wisconsin....
. In 1966 he rejected his "cold war liberalism." He quit the CIA and in 1970 earned an LL.B.
Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and which originated in England....
 from Yale Law School
Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Doctor of Laws#United States, and Master of Studies in Law degrees in law....
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Duncan Kennedy (b. 1942 in Washington D.C.) is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. Located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, it is the United States' oldest law school in continuous operation....
 and a founder of critical legal studies
Critical legal studies

Critical legal studies refers to a movement in legal thought that applied methods similar to those of critical theory to law. The abbreviations "CLS" and "Crit" are sometimes used to refer to the movement and its adherents....
 as movement and school of thought.

Education and early career


Kennedy received an A.B.
Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts , from the Latin language Artium Baccalaureus, is an Undergraduate education bachelor's degree awarded for either a course or a program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
 from Harvard College
Harvard College

Harvard College is the undergraduate section and oldest school of Harvard University, a private university in the United States founded in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature....
 in 1964 and then worked for two years in the CIA operation that controlled the National Student Association
National Student Association

The United States National Student Association, a confederation of United States college and university student governments, was founded in 1947 at a conference at the University of Wisconsin....
. In 1966 he rejected his "cold war liberalism." He quit the CIA and in 1970 earned an LL.B.
Bachelor of Laws

The Bachelor of Laws is an undergraduate, or bachelor, degree in law offered in most common law countries as the primary law degree and which originated in England....
 from Yale Law School
Yale Law School

Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1843, the school offers the Juris Doctor, Master of Laws, Doctor of Laws#United States, and Master of Studies in Law degrees in law....
. After completing a clerkship with Supreme Court
Supreme Court of the United States

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 Justice Potter Stewart
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Potter Stewart was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court of the United States Supreme Court. On the Court, he made major contributions to criminal justice reform, civil rights, access to the courts, and fourth amendment jurisprudence, among other areas....
, Kennedy joined the Harvard Law School faculty, becoming a full professor there in 1976.

Academic work and influence

In 1977, together with Karl Klare
Karl Klare

Karl E. Klare is a Matthews Distinguished University Professor of labor and employment law and legal theory at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts, and the current coordinator of the International Network on Transformative Employment and Labor Law ....
, Mark Kelman, Roberto Unger
Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Roberto Mangabeira Unger is a Brazilian contemporary social theorist, politician, and law professor at Harvard Law School.He is the Harvard Law School's only South American faculty member....
, and a number of other like-minded scholars, Kennedy established the Critical Legal Studies movement
Critical legal studies

Critical legal studies refers to a movement in legal thought that applied methods similar to those of critical theory to law. The abbreviations "CLS" and "Crit" are sometimes used to refer to the movement and its adherents....
. Outside legal academia, he is mostly known today for his monograph Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy*, famous for its trenchant critique of American legal education.

Bibliography

  • A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siecle], (Harvard University Press, 1997)
  • Sexy Dressing, etc., (Harvard University Press, 1993)
  • "Freedom and Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology," 36 Journal of Legal Education 518 (1986)
  • "Form and Substance in Private Law Adjudication," 89 Harvard Law Review 1685 (1976)
  • "A Semiotics of Critique," 22 Cardozo Law Review 1147 (2001)
  • "Thoughts on Coherence, Social Values and National Tradition in Private Law," in Hesselink, ed., The Politics of a European Civil Code (Kluwer Law International, Amsterdam, 2006)


See also

  • Critical legal studies
    Critical legal studies

    Critical legal studies refers to a movement in legal thought that applied methods similar to those of critical theory to law. The abbreviations "CLS" and "Crit" are sometimes used to refer to the movement and its adherents....
  • Indeterminacy debate in legal theory
    Indeterminacy debate in legal theory

    The indeterminacy debate in legal theory can be summed up as follows: Can the law constrain the results reached by adjudicators in legal disputes? Some members of the critical legal studies movement ? primarily jurist in the United States ? argued that the answer to this question is "no." Another way to state this position is to suggest that...
  • List of deconstructionists


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