Harvard Professor Randall Kennedy to speak at Tulane March 24

Renowned legal scholar and Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy will speak at Tulane Law School Friday, March 24 on issues of race and social justice.

Kennedy, who in 2015 was Tulane Law’s Dreyfous Lecturer on Civil Rights, will present a keynote address titled “From Protest to Law: Triumphs and Defeats in the Struggle for Racial Justice, 1950 -1970” as part of the Law & Philosophy Society’s 2nd annual Spring Essay Symposium. The event will be held at the John Giffen Weinmann Hall, Room 110, starting at noon with student presentations. Kennedy will speak at 1:15 p.m.

Kennedy is a prominent legal scholar who has written extensively about the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life and whose writings shape national conversations. He has authored nine books, receiving the1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for his book, Race, Crime, and the Law. Kennedy’s most recent book, Say It Loud!: On Race, Law, History, And Culture, features a collection of essays on social justice issues and civil rights leaders, including Marshall and Frederick Douglass, among others.

Kennedy clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall from 1983-84, prior to becoming a law professor. He is a graduate of Princeton University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. At Harvard, he is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law and teaches contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations.