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Government & Politics
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Reflections on Black Power
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Reflections on Black Power, in Reassessing the Sixties: Debating the Political and Cultural Legacy (Stephen Macedo eds., 1997).
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Supreme Court as Teacher: Lessons from the Second Reconstruction
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Supreme Court as Teacher: Lessons from the Second Reconstruction, in The Supreme Court and American Constitutionalism (Bradford P. Wilson & Ken Masugi…
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A Natural Aristocracy?
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, A Natural Aristocracy?, in Constitutional Stupidities, Constitutional Tragedies (William N. Eskridge & Sanford V. Levinson eds., 1998).
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Randall L. Kennedy, Facing the Dilemmas of Difference: Comments on the Essay by Mamphela Ramphele, in Promise and Dilemma: Perspectives on Racial Diversity and Higher…
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Cast a Cautious Eye on the Supreme Court
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Cast a Cautious Eye on the Supreme Court, in Covering the Courts: Free Press, Fair Trials & Journalistic Performance (Robert Giles &…
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Omissions in “Patriotic Gore”
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy & Toni Morrison, Omissions in “Patriotic Gore”, in Edmund Wilson: Centennial Reflections (Lewis M. Dabney ed., 1997).
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Preface
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Preface, in Reconstructing the Dreamland: The Tulsa Riot of 1921, Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation (Alfred L. Brophy, 2002).
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Race, Crime, and the Law
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Race, Crime, and the Law (Pantheon 1997).
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The Triumph of Robust Tokenism
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, The Triumph of Robust Tokenism, in Best American Political Writing 2002 (Royce Flippin ed., 2002).
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (Pantheon 2002).
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Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (Pantheon 2008).
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Randall L. Kennedy, Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (Pantheon 2011).
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Randall L. Kennedy, Competing Conceptions of “Racial-Discrimination”: A Response to Cooper and Graglia, 14 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 93 (1991).
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Who Can Say “Nigger”? … and Other Considerations
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Who Can Say “Nigger”? … and Other Considerations, 26 J. Blacks Higher Educ. 86 (1999).
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Randall L. Kennedy, McClesky v. Kemp: Race, Capital Punishment, and the Supreme Court, 101 Harv. L. Rev. 1388 (1988).
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The David C. Baum Lecture: ‘Nigger!’ as a Problem in the Law
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, The David C. Baum Lecture: ‘Nigger!’ as a Problem in the Law, 2001 Univ. Ill. L. Rev. 935 (2001).
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Conservatives’ Selective Use of Race in the Law
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Conservatives’ Selective Use of Race in the Law, 19 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol’y 719 (1996).
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Ackerman’s Brown
August 19, 2026
Randall L. Kennedy, Ackerman’s Brown, 123 Yale L.J. 3064 (2014).
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Repealing Environmental Law’s Magna Carta Amidst the Devolution of Environmental Law
August 19, 2026
Richard Lazarus, Repealing Environmental Law’s Magna Carta Amidst the Devolution of Environmental Law, 104 Texas Law Review Online 36 (2025).
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Justice Gorsuch and the Future of Environmental Law
August 19, 2026
Richard Lazarus & Andrew Slottje, Justice Gorsuch and the Future of Environmental Law, 43 Stan. Env’t L.J. 49 (2024).
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Judicial Destruction of the Clean Water Act: Sackett v. EPA
August 19, 2026
Richard J. Lazarus, Judicial Destruction of the Clean Water Act: Sackett v. EPA, 2023 U. Chi. L. Rev. Online 1 (2023).