Randall L. Kennedy

Randall L. Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. His latest book is Say It Loud! On Race, Law, History, and Culture.

What Makes Laws Unjust

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

  • Randall L. Kennedy

The Wrong Enemy

It is galling to see academics vilify higher education.

  • Randall L. Kennedy

Protesting Too Much

The trouble with Black Power revisionism.

  • Randall L. Kennedy

Racial Preferences Are Fair—and They Work

An interview with Randall Kennedy.

  • Andra Gillespie
  • Randall L. Kennedy

The Responsibility of Black Intellectuals, Part 2

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

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