Duncan Kennedy

Essays on Contract Law

• The Bitter Ironies of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In the First Year Law School Curriculum, 71 Buff. L. Rev. 225 (2023)
• In Defense of Rent Control and Rent Caps, LPE Project Blog (2020)
• Savigny’s Family/Patrimony Distinction and its Place in the Global Genealogy of Classical Legal Thought, 58 Am. J. Comp. L. 811 (2010)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Debtor Protection Rules in Subprime Market Default Situations, in Eric Belsky and Nicolas Retsinas, eds., Building Assets, Building Credit (Brookings Institution Press 2005)
• Thirty Years Later, a preface to the published manuscript The Rise & Fall of Classical Legal Thought (Beard Books, Washington DC, 2006)
• The Limited Equity Cooperative as a Vehicle for Affordable Housing in a Race and Class Divided Society, 46 Howard L. J. 85 (2002)
• The Political Stakes in “Merely Technical” Issues of Contract Law, 1 European Review of Private Law 7 (2001)
  • Italian translation: La Funzione Ideologica del Tecnicismo nel Diritto dei Contratti, 20 Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato 317 (2002)
• From the Will Theory to the Principle of Private Autonomy: Lon Fuller’s Consideration and Form, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 94 (2000)
• Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives as a Mode of Privatization, in G. Alexander & G. Skapska, eds., A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies (Routledge, 1994), with Leopold Specht
• Neither the Market nor the State: Housing Privatization Issues, in G. Alexander & G. Skapska, eds., A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies (Routledge, 1994)
• The Effect of the Warranty of Habitability on Low Income Housing: “Milking” and Class Violence, 15 Fla. St. L. Rev. 485 (1987)
• Distributive and Paternalist Motives in Contract and Tort Law, with Special Reference to Compulsory Terms and Unequal Bargaining Power, 41 Maryland L. Rev. 563 (1982)
• Form & Substance in Private Law Adjudication, 89 Harv. L. Rev. 1685 (1976)
  • Partially reprinted in Critical Legal Studies (A. Hutchinson, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, Toronto, 1989)
  • Italian translation: Forma e Sostanza nella Giurisdizione di Diritto Privato (A. Carrino, trans., Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples, 1992)
  • Partial Spanish translation: Forma y Sustancia en la Adjudicación de Derecho Privado, in Sociología Jurídica, Teoría y Sociología del Derecho en Estados Unidos (M. Villegas, ed., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Derecho, Bogotá, 2001)
• The Rise and Fall of Classical Legal Thought, unpublished manuscript, 1975; reformatted 1998, published with a new preface by the author, “Thirty Years Later” (Washington D.C.: Beard Books, 2006)
  • Cover and Contents
  • Chapter 1. Legal Consciousness
  • Chapter 2. Pre-Classical Public Law
  • Chapter 3. Pre-Classical Private Law: Property
  • Chapter 4. Pre-Classical Private Law: The Transformation of Contract
  • Chapter 5. The Integration of Classical Legal Thought