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Randall L. Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, is author of For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.
King could not accomplish what philosophers and theologians also failed to—distinguishing moral from immoral law in a polarized society.
An interview with Randall Kennedy.
A second roundtable with Eugene Rivers, bell hooks, Randall Kennedy, Regina Austin, and Selwyn Cudjoe, with Margaret Burnham as moderator.
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