DUNCAN KENNEDY

Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence

Harvard Law School

Born 1942; Washington, D.C.

Academic:

• B. A. Economics, Harvard College, 1964
• LL. B. Yale Law School, 1970
• Honorary Doctor of Private Law, University of Amsterdam, 2005

Employment History:

• Clerk to Justice Potter Stewart, U.S. Supreme Court, 1970-1971
• Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School, 1971-1976
• Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 1976-1996
• 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
• Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, 1996
• Visiting Professor of Law, University of Paris I, January 1998
• Distinguished Visiting Professor, Suffolk University School of Law, Spring 2002

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

Selected Publications:

• 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)
  
  
• A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siècle] (Harvard University Press, 1997)
  
  
• 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)