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Proportionality and ‘Deference’ in Contemporary Constitutional Thought, in Tamara Perišin and Siniša Rodin (eds.), The Transformation or Reconstitution of Europe, The Critical Legal Studies Perspective on the Role of the Courts in the European Union (Hart, 2018)

A Social Psychological Interpretation of the Hermeneutic of Suspicion in Contemporary American Legal Thought, in Justin Desautels-Stein and Christopher Tomlins, Searching for Contemporary Legal Thought (Cambridge University Press, 2017)

Property as Fetish and Tool, Duncan Kennedy on Property, the Commons, and the Law, Grassroots Economic Organizing, May 17, 2017

A Left of Liberal Interpretation of Trump’s “Big” Win, Part One: Neoliberalism, 1 Nev. L.J. Forum 98 (2017)

Law on the Left: A Conversation with Duncan Kennedy, by Tor Krever, Carl Lisberger and Max Utzschneider, 10 Unbound 1 (2015)

Teaching Israel/Palestine Legal Issues at Harvard: Interview with Duncan Kennedy, by Whosam El-Coolaq, 10 Unbound 36 (2015)

The Globalisation of Critical Discourses on Law: Thoughts on David Trubek’s Contribution, in Grainne de Burca, Claire Kilpatrick and Joanne Scott, eds., Critical Legal Perspectives on Global Governance: Liber Amicorum David M. Trubek (Hart Publishing, 2014)

The Hermeneutic of Suspicion in Contemporary American Legal Thought, 25 Law and Critique 91 (2014)

Critical Legal Studies: Duncan Kennedy, in James Hackney, ed., Legal Intellectuals in Conversation (NYU Press, 2012)

Remembering Keith Aoki’s Casual Legal Studies: Art During Law School, 45 UC Davis L. Rev. 1817 (2012)

Political Ideology and Comparative Law, in Mauro Bussani and Ugo Mattei, The Cambridge Companion to Comparative Law (Cambridge University Press 2012)

African Poverty, 87 Wash. L. Rev. 205 (2012)

Éloge de Duncan Kennedy, par Christophe Jamin, et Réponse de Duncan Kennedy, in Remise d'un doctorat honoris causa à Duncan Kennedy, Petites Affiches, La Loi, Le Quotidien Juridique (Lextenso éditions, 27 décembre 2011)

A Transnational Genealogy of Proportionality in Private Law, in Roger Brownsword, Hans Micklitz, Leone Niglia, and Steve Weatherill, eds., The Foundations of European Private Law (Hart Publishing, 2011)

Commentary on Anti-Eviction and Development in the Global South, in Lucie White and Jeremy Perelman, eds., Stones of Hope. How African Activists Reclaim Human Rights to Challenge Global Poverty (Stanford Univ. Press 2010)

Savigny's Family/Patrimony Distinction and its Place in the Global Genealogy of Classical Legal Thought, 58 Am. J. Comp. L. 811 (2010)

A Context for Gaza, The Harvard Crimson (February 2, 2009) [weblink]

European Introduction: Four Objections, in Derrida and Legal Philosophy, edited by Peter Goodrich, Florian Hoffman, Michel Rosenfeld and Cornelia Vismann (Palgrave MacMillan, Great Britain, 2008)

Entretien avec Duncan Kennedy, par Mikhail Xifaras, as the introduction to Sexy Dressing, Violences sexuelles et érotisation de la domination (Paris: Flammarion, 2008), the French translation of the article Sexual Abuse, Sexy Dressing and the Eroticization of Domination, 26 New England L. Rev. 1309 (1992)

Interview with Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School, Cambridge MA (USA), May 2008 (by Mauro Zamboni), 32 REFTÆRD Årgång, no. 2/125 (2009)

Teaching from the Left in My Anecdotage, 31 NYU Review of Law and Social Change 449 (2007)

Thirty Years Later, a preface to the published manuscript The Rise & Fall of Classical Legal Thought (Beard Books, Washington DC, 2006)

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)

  • Spanish translation: Tres globalizaciones del derecho y del pensamiento jurídico, 1850-2000 (Colección de estudios, Universidad Externado de Colombia 2015, Jorge González Jacome, translator)
  • Earlier version: Two Globalizations of Law and Legal Thought: 1850-1968, 36 Suffolk Univ. L. Rev. 631 (2003)

Introduction and Afterword to the republication of Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, A Polemic Against the System, A Critical Edition (NYU Press, Critical America, 2004)

Iraq: The Case for Losing, 31 Brooklyn Journal of International Law 1 (2006)

La place de René Demogue dans la généalogie de la pensée juridique contemporaine, Revue interdisciplinaire d'études juridiques, vol. 56, p. 163 (2006), with Marie Claire Belleau

Thoughts on Coherence, Social Values and National Tradition in Private Law, in Hesselink, ed., The Politics of a European Civil Code (Kluwer Law International, Amsterdam, 2006) [also in Legal Reasoning, Collected Essays]

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)

Cost-Benefit Analysis of Debtor Protection Rules in Subprime Market Default Situations, in Eric Belsky and Nicolas Retsinas, eds., Building Assets, Building Credit (Brookings Institution Press 2005)

Introduction to Symposium on Dismantling Hierarches in Legal Education, 73 UMKC L. Rev. 231 (2004)

Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System (AFAR 1983) [also published in updated book version as Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System, A Critical Edition, with contributions from Paul Harrington, Peter Gabel [weblink], Angela Harris, Donna Maeda and Janet Halley, and with a new introduction and afterword by the author (NYU Press, Critical America 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)

Shock and Awe Meets Market Shock: The Dangerous Mix of Economic and Military Goals in Iraq, Boston Review 28:5 (October/November 2003) [weblink]

Rationalising War, 637 Al-Ahram Weekly (8-14 May 2003) [weblink]

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

The Social Justice Element in Legal Education in the United States, the Sir Elwyn Jones Lecture, The University of Wales, March 19, 2002.

Legal Economics of U.S. Low Income Housing Markets in Light of “Informality” Analysis, 4 Journal of Law in Society 71 (2002)

The Limited Equity Cooperative as a Vehicle for Affordable Housing in a Race and Class Divided Society, 46 Howard L. J. 85 (2002)

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

Legal Education, Professional Ethics, and Mandatory Pro Bono: A Conversation with Duncan Kennedy, by Ed Baker, PRAXIS, University of Wisconsin Law School, Spring 2001 [weblink]

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

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

François Gény aux États-Unis, in Francois Geny, Mythe et Realites 1899-1999 Centenaire de Methode d’Interpretation et Sources en Droit Prive 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 Columbia L. Rev. 94 (2000)

Critical Legal Theory, in Law and the Arts, Susan Tiefenbrun, ed., Hofstra University (Greenwood Press, 1999)

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)

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

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

Boola! Social Text no. 49 (Winter 1996), p. 31

Politicizing the Classroom, 4 U.S.C. Review of Law and Women's Studies 81 (1995)

  • Spanish translation: Politizar el aula, Academia, Revista sobre enseñanza del Derecho, año 5, número 10, p. 85-94 (2007)

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

  • Spanish translation: Izquierda y derecho: Ensayos de teoría jurídica crítica, Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires 2010

An Interview with Duncan Kennedy, by Christine Kuta, 5 Bimonthly Review of Law Books (no. 3, May-June 1994, and no. 4, July-August 1994))

A Conversation with Duncan Kennedy, by Gerard Clark, 24 The Advocate, The Suffolk University Law School Journal 2 (1994)

Limited Equity Housing Cooperatives as a Mode of Privatization, in G. Alexander & G. Skapska, eds., A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies (Routledge, 1994), with Leopold Specht

Neither the Market nor the State: Housing Privatization Issues, in G. Alexander & G. Skapska, eds., A Fourth Way? Privatization, Property, and the Emergence of New Market Economies (Routledge, 1994)

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

  • 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)

Note sur l'histoire de Cls aux Etats-Unis, in A-J Arnaud, ed., Dictionaire Encyclopedique de Theorie et de Sociologie du Droit (2nd ed., L.G.D.J., Paris, 1993)

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

  • Abuso Sexual y Vestimenta Sexy (Siglo XXI, Buenos Aires 2016, Guillermo Moro translator)
  • 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)

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

A Semiotics of Legal Argument, 42 Syracuse L. Rev. 75 (1991) [also in Legal Reasoning: Collected Essays]

A Cultural Pluralist Case for Affirmative Action in Legal Academia, 1990 Duke L.J. 706 [also in Sexy Dressing, Etc.]

The Liberal Administrative Style, 41 Syracuse Law Review 801 (1990)

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)

Radical Intellectuals in American Culture and Politics, or My Talk at the Gramsci Institute, in Rethinking Marxism, Vol. 1, no. 3 (Fall 1988) [also in Sexy Dressing, Etc.]

Are Lawyers Really Necessary?, magazine interview, 14 Barrister, no. 4, p. 10 (Fall 1987)

The Effect of the Warranty of Habitability on Low Income Housing: "Milking" and Class Violence, 15 Fla. St. L. Rev. 485 (1987)

The Responsibility of Lawyers for the Justice of their Causes, 18 Texas Tech Law Review 1157 (1987)

Freedom & Constraint in Adjudication: A Critical Phenomenology, 36 J. Leg. Ed. 518 (1986) [also in Legal Reasoning, Collected Essays]

Liberal Values in Legal Education, 10 Nova Law Review 603 (1986)

Psycho-Social CLS: A Comment on the Cardozo Symposium, Cardozo Law Review 1013 (1985)

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

Lizard, Nos. 1-3 (Jan. 1984)

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

Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System (AFAR 1983)

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

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)

Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy, in D. Kairys, ed. The Politics of Law (1982, 2nd ed. 1990, 3d ed. 1998)

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

Rebels From Principle: Changing the Corporate Law Firm from Within, Harvard Law Bulletin 36 (1981)

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

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

First Year Law Teaching as Political Action, 1 Law & Social Problems 47 (1980)

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)

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

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

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

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)

California (fiction), The New Yorker, March 17, 1973

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

How the Law School Fails: A Polemic, 1 Yale Review of Law & Social Action 71 (1970)