Duncan Kennedy (born 1942) is an American legal scholar and held the Carter Professorship of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School until 2015.
from Harvard College in 1964 and then worked for two years in the CIA operation that controlled the National Student Association.
After completing a clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart, Kennedy joined the Harvard Law School faculty, becoming a full professor in 1976.
In June 2011, he also received an Honoris Causa Ph.D. title from the Université du Québec à Montréal in Canada.
[3] In 1977, together with Karl Klare, Mark Kelman, Roberto Unger, and other scholars, Kennedy established the critical legal studies movement.