DUNCAN KENNEDY

Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus

Harvard Law School

Born 1942; Washington, D.C.

Education:

• B. A. Economics, Harvard College, 1964
• LL. B. Yale Law School, 1970
• Honorary Doctor of Private Law, University of Amsterdam, 2005
• Honorary Doctor of Law, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2010
• Honorary Doctor of Law, Université de Québec à Montréal, 2011
• Honorary Doctor of Law, Institut d'études politiques de Paris, 2012
• Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016

 

Academic Positions:

• Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School, 1971-1976
• Visiting Professor of Law, New England School of Law, 1984-1985
• Instructor, New School for Social Research, Cardozo School of Law Summer Institute on Law and the Critical Tradition, 1986
• Visiting Professor of Law, University of Paris I, January 1998
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Suffolk University School of Law, Spring 2002
• Visiting Professor of Law, Institut d'études politiques de Paris, 2016, 2017, 2018

 

Subjects Taught:

• Contracts, Torts, Property, Trusts, Legal Process, American Legal Thought, Housing Law & Policy, Private Law Theory, Law and Development, The Globalization of Law in Historical Perspective 1850-2000, Israel/Palestine Legal Issues, The Politics of Private Law Theory in Historical and Comparative Perspective

 

Selected Publications:

(Translations of many of these pieces are available in the "Other Languages" page of this site)

Articles

• The Hermeneutic of Suspicion in Contemporary American Legal Thought, 25 Law and Critique 91 (2014)
  
  
• Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-2000, in The New Law and Economic Development. A Critical Appraisal, David Trubek and Alvaro Santos, eds., (Cambridge, 2006)
  
  
• Strategizing Strategic Behavior in Legal Interpretation, 1996 Utah L. Rev. 785 (1996)

• Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing and the Eroticization of Domination, 26 New England L. Rev. 1309 (1992) [
  
  
• Freedom & Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology, in J. Boyle, ed., Critical Legal Studies (Dartmouth 1992) (original version: 36 J. Leg. Ed. 518 (1986))
  
  
• Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy, in D. Kairys, ed. The Politics of Law (1982, 2nd ed. 1990, 3d ed. 1998)
  
  
• Form & Substance in Private Law Adjudication, 89 Harv. L. Rev. 1685 (1976)

 

Books

(Partially available in the bibliography; full texts available on amazon.com)

• Legal Reasoning, Collected Essays (The Davies Book Publishers, Aurora, Colorado, 2008)
• The Rise and Fall of Classical Legal Thought, unpublished manuscript, 1975; reformatted 1998, published with a new preface by the author, "Thirty Years Later" (Beard Books, Washington D.C.: 2006)
• A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siècle] (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1997)
• Sexy Dressing, etc. (Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1993)
• Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System (self-published, 1983); reprinted in A Critical Edition, with contributions from Paul Harrington, Peter Gabel, Angela Harris, Donna Maeda and Janet Halley, and with a new introduction and afterword by the author (NYU Press, Critical America, New York City, 2004)]