Critical Legal Theory

Jon Hanson
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  • EDUCATION
Critical Legal Theory

An exploration of legal history and ideas, featuring the academics and activists who created them.

Episodes

  1. 03/11/2023

    Episode 10: Duncan Kennedy on his 1983 Work “Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System.”

    In this episode, we’re bringing you the second portion of another interview with Duncan Kennedy. Here, Craig Orbelian and Duncan discuss Duncan’s 1983 work “Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System.”In it, Kennedy critiques the various ways the American legal education system contributes to and reinforces gender, socioeconomic, and racial hierarchies. Kennedy touches upon ideas such as:The impacts of radical law student activist groups that organized aga...

    47 min

  2. 02/20/2023

    Episode 9: Duncan Kennedy on His 1981 "Rebels from Principle: Changing the Corporate Law Firm from Within"

    In this episode, we’re bringing you the first portion of another interview with Duncan Kennedy. Here, Craig Orbelian and Duncan discuss Duncan’s 1981 Root Room lecture which formed the basis of his essay “Rebels From Principle.” In the written piece and the talk, Duncan attempted to deconstruct the psychic dichotomy, prevalent among many leftist and left-leaning law students, that one could either enter a career in public interest work, or entirely abandon one’s values to achieve wealth...

    51 min

  3. 11/22/2022

    Episode 8: Duncan Kennedy on the Cultural and Personal History of Critical Legal Studies (Part Two)

    In this episode, you’ll hear the second part of an interview with Duncan Kennedy by Rio Pierce. In this part, Kennedy delves into his family’s personal history and his own early, formative educational and professional life experiences. He touches on ideas like: His mother's commitment to living an Upper Bohemian lifestyle, especially in contrast with her family’s proud, upper-middle class background.The impacts of the third and fourth social work movements on his father’s parents w...

    1h 13m

  4. 10/03/2022

    Episode 7: Duncan Kennedy on the Cultural and Personal History of Critical Legal Studies (Part One)

    In this episode, you’ll hear the first part of an interview with Duncan Kennedy by Rio Pierce. In this part, Kennedy discusses the value of oral histories and delves into a personal and cultural history of CLS. He touches on ideas like: What it really means when we refer to “the elite” How the substance of movement politics might be affected by its leaders’ childhood and family lifeWhat it means to be a self-serving, solidaristic, and ethically imperfect radicalHow the tumult of the...

    48 min

  5. 08/27/2022

    Episode 6: Duncan Kennedy on the Emergence of the Critical Legal Studies movement (Part Three)

    Duncan Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He is well known as one of the founders of the Critical Legal Studies movement.This episode is the final segment of Abbey Marr’s interview of Professor Duncan Kennedy. In this Part, Abbey and Duncan expand upon their discussion of the role of identity, gender, and hierarchy within CLS and other social movements.Kennedy begins by talking about his 1985 article, Psycho-Social CLS and, building...

    32 min

  6. 08/18/2022

    Episode 5: Duncan Kennedy on the Emergence of the Critical Legal Studies movement (Part Two)

    Duncan Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He is well known as one of the founders of the Critical Legal Studies movement.This episode contains the second part of Abbey Marr’s three-part interview of Professor Duncan Kennedy. In this part of their discussion, Duncan focuses on questions of hierarchy. How could a movement built on the idea of criticizing illegitimate hierarchy structure itself without reproducing the very sort of hierarchie...

    42 min

  7. 08/13/2022

    Episode 4: Duncan Kennedy on the Emergence of the Critical Legal Studies movement (Part One)

    Duncan Kennedy is the Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus at Harvard Law School. He is well known as one of the founders of the Critical Legal Studies movement.This episode is the first part of Abbey Marr’s interview of Professor Duncan Kennedy. In it, Abbey and Duncan discuss the emergence of the Critical Legal Studies movement and the role of personality in shaping the movement. Kennedy inventories the variety of skills needed for movement-building– including organizers, rec...

    42 min

  8. 07/25/2022

    Episode 3: David Trubek on the Birth of the Critical Legal Studies movement (Part Two)

    Professor Trubek traces the origins of the Critical Legal Studies movement back to Yale Law School in the 1960s -- where some junior faculty, including Professor Trubek, and a group of students, like Duncan Kennedy and Mark Tushnet, began developing a network of scholars and students who were shaped by the student movements and zeitgeist of the 1960s and were opposed to the hierarchies and traditions of law and legal education. Professor Trubek also sketches some of the interpersonal, in...

    46 min

  9. 07/12/2022

    Episode 2: David Trubek on the Birth of the Critical Legal Studies Movement (Part One)

    Professor Trubek traces the origins of the Critical Legal Studies movement back to Yale Law School in the 1960s -- where some junior faculty, including Professor Trubek, and a group of students, like Duncan Kennedy and Mark Tushnet, began developing a network of scholars and students who were shaped by the student movements and zeitgeist of the 1960s and were opposed to the hierarchies and traditions of law and legal education. Professor Trubek also sketches some of the interpersonal, in...

    33 min

  10. 07/12/2022

    Episode 1: Introduction to the Critical Legal Theory Podcast

    The Critical Legal Theory Podcast focuses on legal theorists, lawyers, activists, and organizers, who share their stories about the origins, evolution, and influence of critical legal theories.This season, we will share interviews with legal scholars (including Duncan Kennedy, David Trubek, Peter Gabel, Karl Klare, Mark Tushnet, and Kimberlé Crenshaw) regarding the history of the Critical Legal Studies Movement — also known as CLS.The interviews explore the intellectual, political, social, an...

    7 min
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An exploration of legal history and ideas, featuring the academics and activists who created them.

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  • Creator
    Jon Hanson
  • Years Active
    2022 - 2023
  • Episodes
    10
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © 2023 Critical Legal Theory
  • Show Website
    Critical Legal Theory

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