Duncan Kennedy

Essays on Law and Economics

• Law Distributes: Ricardo, Marx, CLS, in Karen Engle & Neville Hoad eds., Hierarchies at Work: Racial Capitalism, World-Systems Theory, and Legal Distributional Analyses (Columbia University Press, 2025)
• The Bitter Ironies of Williams V. Walker-Thomas Furniture Co. In the First Year Law School Curriculum, 71 Buff. L. Rev. 225 (2023)
• A Wagner Act for Tenant Unions, with Karl Klare & Michael Turk, LPE Project Blog (2023)
• A Long History of Industrial Policy (Part 1) (Part 2) (Part 3): Heterodox Approaches, Matters (2023)
• In Defense of Rent Control and Rent Caps, LPE Project Blog (2020)
• The Fed Should Bail Out Low-Income Tenants and Not Just Banks and Landlords, Just Money (2020)
• 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)
• Property as Fetish and Tool, Duncan Kennedy on Property, the Commons, and the Law, Grassroots Economic Organizing, May 17, 2017
• A Left of Liberal Interpretation of Trump’s “Big” Win, Part One: Neoliberalism, 1 Nev. L.J. Forum 98 (2017)
• The Globalisation of Critical Discourses on Law: Thoughts on David Trubek’s Contribution, in Grainne de Burca, Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott, eds., Critical Legal Perspectives on Global Governance: Liber Amicorum David M. Trubek (Hart Publishing, 2014)
• African Poverty, 87 Wash. L. Rev. 205 (2012)
• Stones of Hope, How African Activists Reclaim Humain Rights to Challenge Global Poverty (2010)
• Entretien avec Duncan Kennedy, par Mikhail Xifaras, as the introduction to Sexy Dressing, Violences sexuelles et érotisation de la domination (Paris: Flammarion, 2008), the French translation of the article Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing and the Eroticization of Domination, 26 New England L. Rev. 1309 (1992)
• 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)
• Entrevista a Duncan Kennedy, by Fernando de la Flor and Iván Blume (trans.), 50 THEMIS-Revista de Derecho 323 (2004)
• Legal Economics of U.S. Low Income Housing Markets in Light of “Informality” Analysis, 4 J. Law in Society 71 (2002)
• The Limited Equity Cooperative as a Vehicle for Affordable Housing in a Race and Class Divided Society, 46 Howard L. J. 85 (2002)
• Law and Economics from the Perspective of Critical Legal Studies, 2 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 465 (P. Newman, ed., Macmillan, New York, 1998)
• Contrast and Comparison of Critical Legal Studies and Neo-Marxism As Theories of Law and Economy (Excerpt), in A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siècle] (Harvard University Press, 1997)
• 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)
• Sexy Dressing, etc. (Harvard University Press, 1993)
  • Greek translation: Ντάνκαν Κέννεντυ, Σέξυ ντύσιμο και άλλα, Δοκίμια για την εξουσία και την πολιτική της πολιτιστικής ταυτότητας, (Εκδόσεις ΔΡΟΜΕΑΣ, Αθήνα 2000)
• Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing and the Eroticization of Domination, 26 New England L. Rev. 1309 (1992) [also in Sexy Dressing, Etc.]
  • Avant-propos and interview preceding translation of this article as a book under the title Sexy Dressing, Violences sexuelles et érotisation de la domination (Paris: Flammarion, 2008)
• The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!, 15 Legal Studies Forum 327 (1991) [also in Sexy Dressing, Etc.]
• The Effect of the Warranty of Habitability on Low Income Housing: “Milking” and Class Violence, 15 Fla. St. L. Rev. 485 (1987)
• The Role of Law in Economic Thought: Essays on the Fetishism of Commodities, 34 Amer. Univ. L. Rev. 939 (1985)
• 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)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis of Entitlement Problems: A Critique, 33 Stanford L. Rev. 387 (1981)
• Cost-Reduction Theory as Legitimation, 90 Yale L. J. 1275 (1981)
• Critical Labor Law Theory: A Comment, 4 Industrial Relations L.J. 503 (1981)
• Are Property and Contract Efficient? 8 Hofstra L. Rev. 711 (1980), with Frank Michelman