Randall Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina. For his education he attended St. Albans School, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. Awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law, Mr Kennedy writes for a wide range of scholarly and general interest publications. His other books are For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (2013), The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (2011), Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (2008), Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption (2003), and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (2002). A member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, Mr. Kennedy is also a Trustee emeritus of Princeton University.
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A Plea for Free Speech in Boston, Remembering Frederick Douglass's 1860 Speech
Harvard Student Chapter
Harvard Law School WCC 20041585 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge, MA 02138
SFFA and Beyond
2023 National Lawyers Convention
The Mayflower Hotel1127 Connecticut Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20006
"The Diversity Lie" 20 Years Later
Teleforum
Debate: Was the Constitution of 1787 a Pro-Slavery Document?
Harvard Student Chapter
Harvard Law SchoolWCC
Cambridge, MA 02138
Feddie Night Fights: Classified: Can We Separate Race And State?
Notre Dame Student Chapter
Zoom Webinar
A Plea for Free Speech in Boston, Remembering Frederick Douglass's 1860 Speech
Harvard Student Chapter
On Wednesday, November 29, the Harvard Student Chapter held a conversation, produced in partnership with...
A Plea for Free Speech in Boston, Remembering Frederick Douglass's 1860 Speech
Harvard Student Chapter
On Wednesday, November 29, the Harvard Student Chapter held a conversation, produced in partnership with...
SFFA and Beyond
2023 National Lawyers Convention
This year the Supreme Court issued its long-awaited decision in Students for Fair Admissions Inc....
SFFA and Beyond
2023 National Lawyers Convention
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"The Diversity Lie" 20 Years Later
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