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Randall L. Kennedy

Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.

Articles

King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.

Randall L. Kennedy

The Trouble with Black Power Revisionism

Randall L. Kennedy

An interview with Randall Kennedy.

Andra Gillespie, Randall L. Kennedy

A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.

Joshua Cohen, Selwyn Cudjoe, Regina Austin, Margaret A. Burnham, Randall L. Kennedy, bell hooks, Eugene F. Rivers III

Forum Responses

It is galling to see academics vilify higher education.
Randall L. Kennedy

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