Essays on Legal Theory

A Left Phenomenological Alternative to the Hart/Kelsen Theory of Legal Interpretation, in Duncan Kennedy, Legal Reasoning, Collected Essays (The Davies Book Publishers, Aurora CO, 2008)

Dutch translation of an earlier version: Een linkse fenomenologische kritiek op de rechtsvindingstheorie van Hart en Kelsen, 3 Nederlands tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie & Rechtstheorie 242 (2004)
Earlier versions: A Left Phenomenological Critique of the Hart/Kelsen Theory of Legal Interpretation, 3 Kritische Justiz, Vierteljahresschrift für Recht und Politik 296 (2007); A Left Phenomenological Critique of the Hart/Kelsen Theory of Legal Interpretation, in Cáceres et al., eds., Problemas Contemporáneos de la Filosofía del Derecho (UNAM, 2005)

Interview met Duncan Kennedy, by Pauline Westerman, 3 Nederlands tijdschrift voor Rechtsfilosofie & Rechtstheorie 258 (2004)

Prólogo to Diego López Medina, Teoría impura del derecho, la transformación de la cultura jurídica latinoamericana (Legis, 2004)

The Disenchantment of Logically Formal Legal Rationality, or Max Weber's Sociology in the Genealogy of the Contemporary Mode of Western Legal Thought, 55 Hastings L. J. 1031 (2004)

Pierre Schlag's The Enchantment of Reason, 57 Univ. of Miami L. Rev. 513 (2003)

Three Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-2000, in The New Law and Economic Development. A Critical Appraisal, David Trubek and Alvaro Santos, eds., (Cambridge, 2006)

Earlier version: Two Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-1968, 36 Suffolk Univ. L. Rev. 631 (2003)

The Critique of Rights in Critical Legal Studies, in Brown and Halley, eds., Left Legalism/Left Critique (Duke University Press 2002)

The Political Stakes in “Merely Technical” Issues of Contract Law, 1 European Review of Private Law 7 (2001)

Italian translation: La Funzione Ideologica del Tecnicismo nel Diritto dei Contratti, 20 Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato 317 (2002)

A Semiotics of Critique, 22 Cardozo L. Rev. 1147 (2001)

Legal Formalism, The International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 8634 (2001)

François Gény aux États-Unis, in Francois Gény, Mythe et Realités 1899-1999 Centenaire de Methode d’Interpretation et Sources en Droit Privé Positif, Essai Critique (Claude Thomasset, Jacques Vanderlinden & Philippe Jestaz, eds., Editions Yvon Blais, Montreal, 2000), with Marie Claire Belleau

From the Will Theory to the Principle of Private Autonomy: Lon Fuller’s Consideration and Form, 100 Colum. L. Rev. 94 (2000)

Law and Economics from the Perspective of Critical Legal Studies, 2 The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics and the Law 465 (P. Newman, ed., Macmillan, New York, 1998)

A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siècle] (Harvard University Press, 1997)

Chapter four was reprinted as: The Paradox of American Critical Legalism, 3 European Law J. 359 (1997)
Chapter eight was reprinted as: Strategizing Strategic Behavior in Legal Interpretation, 1996 Utah L. Rev. 785
Italian translation of chapter two: La Distinzione tra Giudice e Legislatore, 15 Rivista Critica di Diritto Privato 383 (1997)
Of chapter four with a brief foreword: Il Pensiero Giuridico Post-testualista: il Caso degli Stati Uniti, 2 Ars Interpretandi: Annuario di Ermeneutica Giuridica 197 (1997)
Of chapter eight: Comportamenti Strategici nell’interpretazione del Diritto, in J. Derrida & G. Vattimo, eds., Diritto, giustizia e interpretazione (Laterza, Rome, 1998)
German translation of parts of chapters nine & ten: Konsequenzen der Richterlichen Entscheidung, in G. Teubner, ed., Entscheidungsfolgen als Rechtsgrunde (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1995)
A condensed version of chapters 12 and 13 appeared as: The Critique of Rights in Critical Legal Studies, in Brown and Halley, eds., Left Legalism/Left Critique (Duke University Press 2002)

Three Papers on Four Boards, 1997 Utah L. Rev. 371

American Constitutionalism as Civil Religion: Notes of an Atheist, 19 Nova L. Rev. 909 (1995)

Sexy Dressing, etc. (Harvard University Press, 1993)

Greek translation: Ντάνκαν Κέννεντυ, Σέξυ ντύσιμο και άλλα, Δοκίμια για την εξουσία και την πολιτική της πολιτιστικής ταυτότητας, (Εκδόσεις ΔΡΟΜΕΑΣ, Αθήνα 2000)

Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing and the Eroticization of Domination, 26 New England L. Rev. 1309 (1992) [also in Sexy Dressing, Etc.]

Avant-propos and interview preceding translation of this article as a book under the title Sexy Dressing, Violences sexuelles et érotisation de la domination (Paris: Flammarion, 2008)

A Semiotics of Legal Argument, 42 Syracuse L. Rev. 75 (1991)

A Semiotics of Legal Argument, Reprinted with "European Introduction: Four Objections" and bibliographies in 3 Collected Courses of the Academy of European Law, Book 2, 309-365 (Kluwer Academic Publishers, Netherlands 1994)
An incomplete earlier version was published in R. Kevelson, ed., Law and Semiotics, Volume 3 (Plenum Press 1989)

The Stakes of Law, or Hale and Foucault!, 15 Legal Studies Forum 327 (1991) [also in Sexy Dressing, Etc.]

Comment on Rudolf Wietholter's "Materialization and Proceduralization in Modern Law," and "Proceduralization of the Category of Law," in C. Joerges & D. Trubek, eds., Critical Legal Thought: An American-German Debate (Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft, Baden-Baden, 1988)

Freedom & Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology, 36 J. Leg. Ed. 518 (1986)

Shorter version: Toward a Critical Phenomenology of Judging, in A. Hutchinson P. Monahan, eds., The Rule of Law: Ideal or Ideology? (Carswell 1987)
Freedom & Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology, reprinted in J. Boyle, ed., Critical Legal Studies (Dartmouth 1992)
Spanish translation: Libertad y Restricción en la Decisión Judicial. El debate con la Teoría Crítica del Derecho (CLS), Diego Eduardo López, trans., Siglo del Hombre Editores, Bogotá, Colombia, 1999; con un Estudio Preliminar de César Rodríguez

The Role of Law in Economic Thought: Essays on the Fetishism of Commodities, 34 Amer. Univ. L. Rev. 939 (1985)

Roll Over Beethoven, 36 Stan. L. Rev. 1 (1984) (with Peter Gabel)

The Political Significance of the Structure of the Law School Curriculum, 14 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1 (1983)

Antonio Gramsci and the Legal System, 6 ALSA Forum, No. 1, p. 32 (1982)

Distributive and Paternalist Motives in Contract and Tort Law, with Special Reference to Compulsory Terms and Unequal Bargaining Power, 41 Maryland L. Rev. 563 (1982)

The Stages of the Decline of the Public/Private Distinction, 130 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1349 (1982)

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Entitlement Problems: A Critique, 33 Stanford L. Rev. 387 (1981)

Cost-Reduction Theory as Legitimation, 90 Yale L. J. 1275 (1981)

Critical Labor Law Theory: A Comment, 4 Industrial Relations L.J. 503 (1981)

Are Property and Contract Efficient? 8 Hofstra L. Rev. 711 (1980), with Frank Michelman

Toward an Historical Understanding of Legal Consciousness: The Case of Classical Legal Thought in America, 1850-1940, 3 Research in Law & Soc., Spitzer, Ed. (1980)

The Structure of Blackstone's Commentaries, 28 Buffalo L. Rev. 205 (1979)

Form & Substance in Private Law Adjudication, 89 Harv. L. Rev. 1685 (1976)

Partially reprinted in Critical Legal Studies (A. Hutchinson, ed., Rowman & Littlefield, Toronto, 1989)
Italian translation: Forma e Sostanza nella Giurisdizione di Diritto Privato (A. Carrino, trans., Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Naples, 1992)
Partial Spanish translation: Forma y Sustancia en la Adjudicación de Derecho Privado, in Sociología Jurídica, Teoría y Sociología del Derecho en Estados Unidos (M. Villegas, ed., Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Facultad de Derecho, Bogotá, 2001)

The Rise and Fall of Classical Legal Thought, unpublished manuscript, 1975; reformatted 1998, published with a new preface by the author, "Thirty Years Later" (Washington D.C.: Beard Books, 2006)

Cover and Contents
Chapter 1. Legal Consciousness
Chapter 2. Pre-Classical Public Law
Chapter 3. Pre-Classical Private Law: Property
Chapter 4. Pre-Classical Private Law: The Transformation of Contract
Chapter 5. The Integration of Classical Legal Thought

Legal Formality, 2 J. Leg. Stud. 351 (1973)