Background
Kennedy, Duncan McLean was born in 1942 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
( In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-publi...)
In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journals—unprecedented for a self-published work—and influenced a generation of law students and teachers. In this well-known critique, Duncan Kennedy argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and gender inequality in our society. However, Kennedy proposes a radical egalitarian alternative vision of what legal education should become, and a strategy, starting from the anarchist idea of workplace organizing, for struggle in that direction. Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy is comprehensive, covering everything about law school from the first day to moot court to job placement to life after law school. Kennedy's book remains one of the most cited works on American legal education. The visually striking original text is reprinted here, making it available to a new generation. The text is buttressed by commentaries by five prominent legal scholars who consider its meaning for today, as well as by an introduction and afterword by the author that describes the context in which Kennedy wrote the book, including a brief history of critical legal studies.
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( A major statement from one of the foremost legal theor...)
A major statement from one of the foremost legal theorists of our day, this book offers a penetrating look into the political nature of legal, and especially judicial, decision making. It is also the first sustained attempt to integrate the American approach to law, an uneasy balance of deep commitment and intense skepticism, with the Continental tradition in social theory, philosophy, and psychology. At the center of this work is the question of how politics affects judicial activity-and how, in turn, lawmaking by judges affects American politics. Duncan Kennedy considers opposing views about whether law is political in character and, if so, how. He puts forward an original, distinctive, and remarkably lucid theory of adjudication that includes accounts of both judicial rhetoric and the experience of judging. With an eye to the current state of theory, legal or otherwise, he also includes a provocative discussion of postmodernism. Ultimately concerned with the practical consequences of ideas about the law, A Critique of Adjudication explores the aspects and implications of adjudication as few books have in this century. As a comprehensive and powerfully argued statement of a critical position in modern American legal thought, it will be essential to any balanced picture of the legal, political, and cultural life of our nation.
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Kennedy, Duncan McLean was born in 1942 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States.
Bachelor of Arts in Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1964. Bachelor of Laws, Yale University, 1970.
Law clerk to Justice Potter Stewart United States Supreme Court, 1970—1971. Assistant professor law Harvard University, 1971—1976, professor, since 1976, Carter professor general jurisprudence, since 1996. Visiting professor University Paris I., 1998.
Distinguished visiting professor Suffolk University School Law, 2002.
( A major statement from one of the foremost legal theor...)
( In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-publi...)