Essays on Critical Legal Studies

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

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)

Stones of Hope, How African Activists Reclaim Humain Rights to Challenge Global Poverty (2010)

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

• A part of this piece was published as a book chapter under the title "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)

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)

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)

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

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)

Entrevista a Duncan Kennedy, by Fernando de la Flor and Iván Blume (trans.), 50 THEMIS-Revista de Derecho 323 (2004)

Introduction, in Symposium: Dismantling Hierarchies in Legal Education, 73 UMKC L. Rev. 231 (2004)

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 (NYU Press, Critical America 2004)

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

A Critique of Adjudication [fin de siecle] (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)

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

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, no. 2, p. 56 (Spring 1994)

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

• Spanish translations: Nota sobre la Historia de Cls en los Estados Unidos, 11 Doxa 283 (Alicante, 1992)
• Notas sobre la historia de los "Critical Legal Studies" en los Estados Unidos, 25 Themis 103 (Lima, 1993) [identical to text in Doxa]
• Italian translation: Breve Storia dei Critical Legal Studies negli Stati Uniti, 10 Rivista Critica del Diritto Privato 639 (Naples, Dec. 1992)

The Liberal Administrative Style, 41 Syracuse L. Rev. 801 (1990)

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

• Partial Spanish translation: ¿Son los abogados realmente necesarios?, Axel O. Eljatib, trans., in Desde Otra Mirada: Textos de Teoría Crítica del Derecho (Eudeba 2001)

Liberal Values in Legal Education, 10 Nova L. J. 603 (1986)

Psycho-social CLS: A Comment on the Cardozo Symposium, Cardozo L. Rev. 1013 (1985)

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

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

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)]

• Shorter version: Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy, 32 J. Leg. Ed. 591 (1982)
• Shorter version: Legal Education as Training for Hierarchy, in D. Kairys, ed. The Politics of Law (1982, 2nd ed. 1990, 3d ed. 1998)
• French translation: L'enseignement du Droit et la Reproduction des Hierarchies Professionelles, Annales de Vaucresson, deuxième semestre 1985, no. 23, p. 191
• Spanish translation: La educación legal como preparación para la jerarquía, María Luisa Piqué y Christian Courtis, trans., in Desde Otra Mirada: Textos de Teoría Crítica del Derecho (Eudeba 2001) also published as La educación legal como preparación para la jerarquía, Academia, Revista sobre Enseñanza del Derecho de Buenos Aires, Año 2, no. 3, Otoño 2004 [translation of Legal Education as a Training for Hierarchy, in D. Kairys, ed., The Politics of Law (New York, Pantheon, 1990)]

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

Rebels From Principle: Changing the Corporate Law Firm from Within, Harvard Law School Bulletin, Fall 1981

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