Duncan Kennedy

Education

• B. A. Economics, Harvard College, 1964
• LL. B. Yale Law School, 1970

Academic Positions

• Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus, Harvard Law School, 2017-present
• Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Harvard Law School, 1990-2017
• Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, 1976-1990
• Assistant Professor, Harvard Law School, 1971-1976

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

Honorary Degrees

• Doctor Honoris Causa, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2016
• Honorary Doctor of Law, Institut d’études politiques de Paris, 2012
• Honorary Doctor of Law, Université de Québec à Montréal, 2011
• Honorary Doctor of Law, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia, 2010
• Honorary Doctor of Private Law, University of Amsterdam, 2005

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)

Articles

• A Political Economy of Contemporary Legality, in Poul Fritz Kjaer, ed. The Law of Political Economy: Transformations of the Function of Law (Cambridge University Press, 2019)
• Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-2000, in David Trubek and Alvaro Santos, eds. The New Law and Economic Development: A Critical Appraisal (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)]