Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy : A Polemic Against the System / Duncan Kennedy.
2004
KF272 .K46 2004
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Title
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy : A Polemic Against the System / Duncan Kennedy.
Author
Kennedy, Duncan, author.
ISBN
9780814749081
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2004]
Copyright
©2004
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource
Item Number
10.18574/nyu/9780814749081.001.0001 doi
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KF272 .K46 2004
Dewey Decimal Classification
340/.071/173
Summary
In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journals-unprecedented for a self-published work-and influenced a generation of law students and teachers. In this well-known critique, Duncan Kennedy argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and gender inequality in our society. However, Kennedy proposes a radical egalitarian alternative vision of what legal education should become, and a strategy, starting from the anarchist idea of workplace organizing, for struggle in that direction. Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy is comprehensive, covering everything about law school from the first day to moot court to job placement to life after law school. Kennedy's book remains one of the most cited works on American legal education.The visually striking original text is reprinted here, making it available to a new generation. The text is buttressed by commentaries by five prominent legal scholars who consider its meaning for today, as well as by an introduction and afterword by the author that describes the context in which Kennedy wrote the book, including a brief history of critical legal studies.
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Carrington, Paul, contributor.
Gabel, Peter, contributor.
Halley, Janet, contributor.
Harris, Angela, contributor.
Kennedy, Duncan, contributor.
Maeda, Donna, contributor.
Gabel, Peter, contributor.
Halley, Janet, contributor.
Harris, Angela, contributor.
Kennedy, Duncan, contributor.
Maeda, Donna, contributor.
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Critical America ; ; 56
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print 9780814747780
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic against the System
Reproducing the Right Sort of Hierarchy
The Spiritual Foundation of Attachment to Hierarchy
Power and Resistance in Contemporary Legal Education
Of Time and the Pedagogy of Critical Legal Studies
Afterword
About the Contributors
Contents
Introduction
Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic against the System
Reproducing the Right Sort of Hierarchy
The Spiritual Foundation of Attachment to Hierarchy
Power and Resistance in Contemporary Legal Education
Of Time and the Pedagogy of Critical Legal Studies
Afterword
About the Contributors