Duncan Kennedy

Duncan Kennedy (*1942 in Washington, D.C.) is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School. Kennedy received the A.B. from Harvard College in 1964 and the LL.B. from Yale Law School in 1970. He became a member of the Harvard Law School faculty, one of few without license to practice law, in 1971, was appointed full professor in 1976, and became the Carter Professor in 1996. Professor Kennedy became one of the most influential legal thinkers of the late twentieth century as a result of his association with the Critical Legal Studies movement. His short monograph, Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy was both famous and infamous for its trenchant critique of legal education. He has also wrote a series of influential essays in legal theory.

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Jurisprudence - Harvard Law School - Harvard College - 1964 - Yale Law School - 1970 - 1976 - 1996 - Critical Legal Studies movement - Legal theory

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