"Duncan Kennedy's critique of legal education now gets the wide
distribution it deserves. Kennedy's insightful skewering of legal
education, supplemented by his own reflections on the work and
views of other legal educators, will provide prospective law
students with a flavor of what they are in for-- and will remind
lawyers of what they went through. Kennedy's message is as
important today as it was two decades ago when he first penned this
work."--"Mark Tushnet, Georgetown University"
"Duncan Kennedy's little red book has become a classic. But now
with its republication twenty years later, Kennedy's 'polemic
against the system' takes us beyond its origins as a field guide to
legal education. Amplified by the voices of other distinguished
scholars, this stunning collection of essays forces us to consider
the ways in which hierarchies and their resulting social alienation
disfigure contemporary society, not just our law schools."--"Lani
Guinier, Harvard University"
"Kennedy's book remains one of the defining blows of critical
legal studies and an enduring challenge to the entire structure of
legal education. It remains as vital, incisive and daring as when
it first appeared."--"Scott Turow, author of One L: The Turbulent
True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School."
"An important founding text in the history of critical
approaches to law taken by scholars located in law schools."--"The
Law and Politics Book Review"
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
aself-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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