Duncan Kennedy
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780814737071
- eISBN:
- 9780814745434
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- NYU Press
- DOI:
- 10.18574/nyu/9780814737071.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Legal History
This chapter presents an interview with Duncan Kennedy, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at the Harvard Law School. He is best known for helping to found and promote the critical legal ...
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This chapter presents an interview with Duncan Kennedy, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at the Harvard Law School. He is best known for helping to found and promote the critical legal studies movement. He helped introduce Continental legal theory to the American legal academy and has contributed to policy analysis in a host of legal areas, frequently utilizing economic analysis, while at the same time being highly critical of the dominant Chicago school law and economics approach. Topics covered during the interview include why Kennedy decided to become a legal academic; his work in the CIA's National Student Association operation; his undergraduate training in development economics at Harvard and the professors who influenced him; how he dealt with the common set of questions facing any beginning professor; and his critique of mainstream American law and economics.Less
This chapter presents an interview with Duncan Kennedy, the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at the Harvard Law School. He is best known for helping to found and promote the critical legal studies movement. He helped introduce Continental legal theory to the American legal academy and has contributed to policy analysis in a host of legal areas, frequently utilizing economic analysis, while at the same time being highly critical of the dominant Chicago school law and economics approach. Topics covered during the interview include why Kennedy decided to become a legal academic; his work in the CIA's National Student Association operation; his undergraduate training in development economics at Harvard and the professors who influenced him; how he dealt with the common set of questions facing any beginning professor; and his critique of mainstream American law and economics.
