Instructors
Randall L. Kennedy
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Thurgood Marshall and Procedural Law: Lawyer’s Lawyer, Judge’s Judge
February 2, 2023
Randall L. Kennedy & Martha L. Minow, Thurgood Marshall and Procedural Law: Lawyer’s Lawyer, Judge’s Judge, 6 Harv. BlackLetter L.J. 95 (1989).
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Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word – with a New Introduction by the Author
January 23, 2023
Randall Kennedy, Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word – with a New Introduction by the Author (2022).
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Protesting Too Much: The Trouble with Black Power Revisionism
December 15, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Protesting Too Much: The Trouble with Black Power Revisionism, 40 Boston Rev. 38 (2015).
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What Makes Laws Unjust?
December 15, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, What Makes Laws Unjust?, in Rethinking Law (Amy Kapczynski ed., 2022).
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How a Dispute Over the N-Word Became a Dispiriting Farce
December 15, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, How a Dispute Over the N-Word Became a Dispiriting Farce, 65 Chron. Higher Educ., Feb. 8, 2019, at A44.
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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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Up in Arms
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Up in Arms, N.Y. Times, May 30, 2021, at BR15 (reviewing Carol Anderson, THE SECOND Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal…
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Introduction: Matthew J. Perry, a Lawyer with a Cause
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Introduction in, Matthew J. Perry: The Man, His Times, and His Legacy (William Lewis Burke & Belinda Gergel eds., 2004).
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Brown as Senior Citizen
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Brown as Senior Citizen, 1 Am. J. L. & Equal. 238 (2021).
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Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy: a fraught relationship
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy: a fraught relationship, Wash. Post, Apr. 27, 2018. (reviewing David Margolick, The Promise and the Dream: The…
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Randall Kennedy, Has America created a misleading fable about the civil rights movement?, Wash. Post, Feb. 2, 2018. (reviewing Jeanne Theoharis, A More Beautiful and…
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Randall Kennedy, Overcoming racism as a black medical student then a working physician, Wash. Post, Sept. 18, 2015.
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Valerie Jarrett’s winding path to the Obamas’ inner circle
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Valerie Jarrett’s winding path to the Obamas’ inner circle, Wash. Post, Apr. 11, 2019. (reviewing Valerie Jarrett, Finding My Voice: My Journey to…
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A Black Academic Grapples with His Own Racism
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, A Black Academic Grapples with His Own Racism, Wash. Post, Aug. 23, 2019 (reviewing Ibram X. Kendi, How to Be an Anti-Racist…
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What Harvard was Like for a Black Freshman in 1959
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, What Harvard was Like for a Black Freshman in 1959, Wash. Post, Mar. 19, 2020 (reviewing Kent Garrett & Jeanne Ellsworth, The…
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Praising the Life of John Lewis, and Skipping the Complexities
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Praising the Life of John Lewis, and Skipping the Complexities, Wash. Post, Aug. 28, 2020 (reviewing Jon Meacham, His Truth is Marching…
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The Case for Quoting the N-word in University Classrooms
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, The Case for Quoting the N-word in University Classrooms, Wash. Post, May 13, 2021.
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Why Justice Breyer Will Resign at the End of This Court Term
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Why Justice Breyer Will Resign at the End of This Court Term, Am. Prospect (June 22, 2021).
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Randall L. Kennedy, More Foe Than Friend: The Supreme Court and the Pursuit of Racial Equality, The Nation, Aug. 23, 2021, at 32 (reviewing Orville…
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The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, The Right-Wing Attack on Racial Justice Talk, 32 Am. Prospect 1 (Oct. 2021).
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Is It Ever OK to Enunciate a Slur in the Classroom?
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Is It Ever OK to Enunciate a Slur in the Classroom?, Chron. Higher Educ. Oct. 1, 2021.
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Law, Social Justice, Wokeness and the Protests: Where Do We Go from Here? Convention
October 19, 2022
Randy E. Barnett, Randall L. Kennedy, Eugene B. Meyer, John O. McGinnis, Nadine Strossen & Kenneth K. Lee, Law, Social Justice, Wokeness and the Protests:…
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Why We Need Good Police
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Why We Need Good Police, Dissent, Summer 2021, at 94.
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The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy & Eugene Volokh, The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond, 49 Cap. U. L. Rev. 1 (2021).
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Cynical Realism: Randall Kennedy on the Biases of the Supreme Court
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Cynical Realism: Randall Kennedy on the Biases of the Supreme Court, London Rev. Books, Jan. 21, 2021.
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The Ebb and Flow of Racial Progress
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, The Ebb and Flow of Racial Progress, Am. Prospect, Dec. 3, 2020.
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Politicians in Robes: The Supreme Court’s War Against Equality
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Politicians in Robes, The Nation, Oct. 19, 2020, at 41 (reviewing Adan Cohen, Supreme Inequality: The Supreme Court’s Fifty-Year Battle for a More…
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John Lewis’s Last Journey
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, John Lewis’s Last Journey, Am. Prospect July 27, 2020.
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The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, The George Floyd Moment: Promise and Peril, Am. Prospect, June 19, 2020, at 6.
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How Racist Are Universities, Really?
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, How Racist Are Universities, Really?, Chron. Higher Educ., Sept. 18, 2020, at 20.
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Contracts: Happiness and Heartbreak, 2d ed.
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Contracts: Happiness and Heartbreak (2d ed. 2020).
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Say It Loud! On Race, History, and Culture
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Say It Loud!: On Race, History, and Culture (Pantheon 2021).
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Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy & Eugene Volokh, Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond (Aug. 29, 2020).
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The Courage to Defy Brutality
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, The Courage to Defy Brutality, 30 Am. Prospect, Spring 2019, at 74 (reviewing Richard Gergel, Unexampled Courage: The Blinding of Sgt. Isaac Woodard…
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The Journalist and the Murderers
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, The Journalist and the Murderers, N.Y. Times, Mar. 8, 2020, at BR14 (reviewing Jerry Mitchell, Race Against Time, A Reporter Reopens the Unsolved…
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The Apparatchik
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, The Apparatchik, The Nation, Oct. 29, 2019, at 35 (reviewing Corey Robin, The Enigma of Clarence Thomas (2019)).
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Contracts: Happiness and Heartbreak
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Contracts: Happiness and Heartbreak (2019).
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Woe the People
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Woe the People, N.Y. Times, June 30, 2019, at BR1 (reviewing Astra Taylor, Democracy May Not Exist, But We’ll Miss It When It’s…
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Harvard Betrays a Law Professor
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Harvard Betrays a Law Professor, N.Y. Times, May 17, 2019, at A29.
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Reconsidering Palmer v. Thompson
October 19, 2022
Randall L. Kennedy, Reconsidering Palmer v. Thompson, 2018 Sup. Ct. Rev. 179 (2018).
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Derrick Bell and Me
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Derrick Bell and Me (Mar. 8, 2019).
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The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, The Confounding Truth About Frederick Douglass, Atlantic, Dec. 1, 2018, at 36 (reviewing David W. Blight, Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom (2018)).
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Saying It Louder
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Saying It Louder, N.Y. Times, July 22, 2018, SR at 1.
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Martin Luther King Jr.: The Prophet as Healer
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.: The Prophet as Healer, Am. Prospect, Apr. 3, 2018, at 1.
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Walker v. City of Birmingham Revisited
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Walker v. City of Birmingham Revisited, 2017 Sup. Ct. Rev. 313.
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State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, State-Enforced Segregation and the Color of Justice, Am. Prospect, July 24, 2017, at 1 (reviewing Richard Rothstein, The Color of Law: The Forgotten…
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Despair is Not an Option
October 19, 2022
Randall Kennedy, Despair is Not an Option, Am. Prospect, Sept. 20, 2017, at 1.