Faculty Bibliography
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This anthology presents, for the first time, full texts of the twenty most important works of American legal thought since 1890. Drawing on a course the editors teach at Harvard Law School, the book traces the rise and evolution of a distinctly American form of legal reasoning. These are the articles that have made these authors--from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., to Ronald Coase, from Ronald Dworkin to Catherine MacKinnon--among the most recognized names in American legal history.
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In my Julius Stone Memorial Address, I explored the hypothesis that everyday decisions made by the professionals who manage norms and institutions which seem to lie in the background of global politics may be more important to global wealth and poverty than what we customarily think of as the big political and economic decisions made by parliaments and presidents or brought about by war and peace. If you have the energy to protest, criticise and change the distribution of wealth and status in our newly globalised world, it can be hard to locate points at which allocative decisions can be politically contested. The urgent political disputes that become international front-page news can seem peripheral to the decisions responsible for the distribution of things in the world. Although meetings of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) or the G–7 (Group of Seven) provide useful backdrops for street protest and media attention, it is not clear that the decisions being taken inside those meeting rooms are either meaningfully responsible for global distributions of wealth and power or contestable in conventional political terms. Although it is easy to think of international affairs as a rolling sea of politics over which we have managed to throw but a thin net of legal rules, in truth the situation today is more the reverse. There is law at every turn— and only the most marginal opportunities for engaged political contestation. The footprint of national rules and national adjudication extends far beyond their nominal territorial jurisdiction. Private ordering, standards bodies, financial institutions and payment systems, tax systems, trade regimes — all are managed by legal expertise. Indeed, to say the world is covered in law is also to say we are increasingly governed by experts — legal experts. Even the story of the war in Iraq is overwhelmingly one of law, of military force mobilised coordinated and legitimated by law. The difficulty is to understand more adequately what these experts do, the nature and limits of their vocabulary, and the possibilities for translating their work into politically contestable terms — or promoting the experience of responsible human freedom among the experts who govern our world.
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David W. Kennedy, Humanitarismo Internacional: Los Lados Oscuros, 13 Advocatus 39 (2005).
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Speaking Law to Power: International Law and Foreign Policy, Closing Remarks made at the University of Wisconsin Law School, March 6, 2004.
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David W. Kennedy, The Move to Institutions, in International Organizations (Jan Klabbers ed., 2005).
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La traducción estuvo a cargo de Mariela Pérez-Costa. En el presente artículo, el autor hace un análisis crítico del actual movimiento de los Derechos Humanos. Afirma que este adolece de dos problemas principales: La tendencia a considerar estos derechos como algo absoluto y el exceso de pragmatismo con que pueden ser aplicados. Los profesionales dedicados a la defensa de los Derechos Humanos son conscientes de estos problemas; sin embargo, son cínicos y no asumen las responsabilidades de sus actos. El autor concluye el texto previendo el fin del paradigma de los derechos fundamentales, ahogado en sus contradicciones, y el advenimiento de una nueva maquinaria política a escala global.
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In this provocative and timely book, David Kennedy explores what can go awry when we put our humanitarian yearnings into action on a global scale--and what we can do in response. Rooted in Kennedy's own experience in numerous humanitarian efforts, the book examines campaigns for human rights, refugee protection, economic development, and for humanitarian limits to the conduct of war. It takes us from the jails of Uruguay to the corridors of the United Nations, from the founding of a non-governmental organization dedicated to the liberation of East Timor to work aboard an aircraft carrier in the Persian Gulf. Kennedy shares the satisfactions of international humanitarian engagement--but also the disappointments of a faith betrayed. With humanitarianism's new power comes knowledge that even the most well-intentioned projects can create as many problems as they solve. Kennedy develops a checklist of the unforeseen consequences, blind spots, and biases of humanitarian work--from focusing too much on rules and too little on results to the ambiguities of waging war in the name of human rights. He explores the mix of altruism, self-doubt, self-congratulation, and simple disorientation that accompany efforts to bring humanitarian commitments to foreign settings. Writing for all those who wish that "globalization" could be more humane, Kennedy urges us to think and work more pragmatically.
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That the international system has changed dramatically in the years since the end of the Cold War has become a commonplace. But which changes are most profound, and what is their significance for international legal order? The last decade of the twentieth century generated dozens of books and articles hailing a transformed world order and interpreting its political, economic, and social consequences. We have more distance now. The first years of this century have underscored the significance of changes in the structure of international affairs – but they also demonstrate how difficult it is to interpret them with confidence.
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Selected papers from the third in a series of conferences on law and development held at Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, UK.
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Presents a roundtable discussion on the subversive nature of legal archaeology in women's studies. Structural tension or contradictions in women's studies; Need to fully theorize the connection of legal archaeology to the term feminist; Role of subversion in teaching humility; Evolution of feminist theory as a discipline; Role of feminism in promoting democracy.
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Esta obra contiene dos historias sobre el Derecho internacional del siglo XXI en los Estados Unidos. Y las dos son distintas de las que cuenta habitualmente la propia disciplina. La primera tiene que ver con las transformaciones del vocabulario disciplinar a través de oleadas sucesivas de renovación generacional, y la segunda con los proyectos en los que están involucrados los iusinternacionalistas que animan a su vez a la ransformación de ese vocabulario general.
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Originally presented at a conference held at the University of Wisconsin Law School on February 5, 2000 entitled “Aftermath: Conversations on the Clinton Scandal, the Future of the Presidency and the Liberal State”.
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David W. Kennedy, The International Human Rights Movement: Part of the Problem?, 3 Eur. Hum. Rts. L. Rev. 245 (2001).
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David W. Kennedy, The Politics and Methods of Comparative Law, Downing College, Cambridge, U.K. (July 26-30, 2000).
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Presented at Downing College, Cambridge, U.K. July 26-30 (2000).
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David W. Kennedy, Les Clichés Revisités, le Droit International et la Politique, Droit International 4 (2000).
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Université Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), Institut des hautes études internationales de Paris. Originally presented as courses on public international law and economy in Paris in Feb. 1998.
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David W. Kennedy, Weekends d’Automne, Droit Int'l 4, 1999/2000, at 133.
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David W. Kennedy, The International Style in Postwar Law and Policy, in Law and Moral Action in World Politics 54 (Cecelia Lynch & Michael Loriaux eds., 1999).
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In Law and Moral Action in World Politics, the authors -- activists and scholars of international law and international relations -- pose these questions in new ways.
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Most comprehensive book analysing the ICJ Advisory Opinions on nuclear weapons handed down in 1996.
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This article considers the idea that the professional and intellectual disciplines which have developed in the United States to advance insight into international affairs also have characteristic blind spots and biases which leave professionals and intellectuals working within them more sanguine about the status quo than they might otherwise be. I am particularly interested in blind spots and bias which emerge from interactions among the disciplines of public international law, international economic law, comparative law, and international relations. Although internationalists in the United states working in these disciplines have broadly divergent methodologies and political ideologies, they share a sensibility which narrows the range of concerns and the scope of political possibilities which seem plausible to professionals and intellectuals concerned with international law and policy.
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This interdisciplinary study examines the relationships between law and the humanities.
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David W. Kennedy, Losing Faith in the Secular: Law, Religion and International Governance, in 4 Graven Images: Transgression, Punishment, Responsibility and Forgiveness 138 (Andrew D. Weiner & Leonard V. Kaplan eds., 1998).
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Founded as a journal but now evolving into a book series, Graven Images illuminates culture, the law, and the human urge for transcendence.
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Symposium on Global Governance, United Nations and the Role of International Law: The First Session.
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David W. Kennedy, Book Review, 91 Am. J. Int'l L.. 745 (1997)(reviewing Sharon Korman, The Right of Conquest: The Acquisition of Territory by Force in International Law and Practice (1996)).
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What can cultural studies tell us about culture? This volume of work, fresh from the dig, presents a timely account of current thinking on central issues within and beyond the humanities today.