Kennedy, Duncan

On December 7, 2011, Sciences Po granted the award doctorate honoris causa to Duncan Kennedy, professor at the Harvard Law School, whose application was supported by the Law School.

After earning a degree in economics at the University of Harvard, Duncan Kennedy pursued legal studies at Yale University and earned his diploma in 1970. The following year he became a law clerk at the Supreme Court, and in 1971 he joined the Harvard Law School, where in 1996 he obtained the prestigious post Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence.

Among his notable works are:

• Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierachy (1973) 
• The Rise and Fall of Classical Legal Thought (1975) 
• Sexy Dressing etc. (1993) 
• A Critique of Adjudication (1997) 
• Legal Reasoning, Collected Essays (2008)