Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System is an essay by Duncan Kennedy

Duncan Kennedy

Duncan Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School and a founder of critical legal studies as movement and school of thought. Kennedy has been a member of the ACLU since 1967. According to his own testimony, he has never forgotten to pay his dues.-Education and...

on legal education in the United States of America. The work is a critique of American legal education and argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and gender inequality.

Publication history

The article was first self-published as a pamphlet in 1983. The pamphlet was subsequently reviewed in several major law journals.

External links

• Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy