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  • Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System
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  • Duncan Kennedy
  • 2004
  • Published by: NYU Press
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In 1983 Harvard law professor Duncan Kennedy self-published a biting critique of the law school system called Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy. This controversial booklet was reviewed in several major law journals—unprecedented for a self-published work—and influenced a generation of law students and teachers.

In this well-known critique, Duncan Kennedy argues that legal education reinforces class, race, and gender inequality in our society. However, Kennedy proposes a radical egalitarian alternative vision of what legal education should become, and a strategy, starting from the anarchist idea of workplace organizing, for struggle in that direction. Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy is comprehensive, covering everything about law school from the first day to moot court to job placement to life after law school. Kennedy's book remains one of the most cited works on American legal education.

The visually striking original text is reprinted here, making it available to a new generation. The text is buttressed by commentaries by five prominent legal scholars who consider its meaning for today, as well as by an introduction and afterword by the author that describes the context in which Kennedy wrote the book, including a brief history of critical legal studies.

Table of Contents

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  1. Title Page, Copyright Page
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  1. Contents
  2. p. vii
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. 1-8
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  1. Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic against the System
  2. pp. 9-12
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  1. Contents
  2. p. 13
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  1. Preface
  2. p. 15
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  1. Chapter One
  2. pp. 17-29
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  1. Chapter Two The Ideological Content of Legal Education
  2. pp. 30-49
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  1. Chapter Three Hierarchies of the Legal Profession
  2. pp. 49-60
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  1. Chapter Four The Contribution of Legal Education to the Hierarchies of the Bar
  2. pp. 61-73
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  1. Chapter Five The Modeling of Hierarchical Relationships
  2. pp. 74-88
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  1. Chapter Six The Student Response to Hierarchy
  2. pp. 89-94
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  1. Chapter Seven The Politics of Hierarchy
  2. pp. 95-113
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  1. Chapter Eight Strategy
  2. pp. 114-122
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  1. Chapter Nine The Law School Study Group
  2. pp. 123-135
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  1. Utopian Proposal
  2. pp. 136-139
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  1. Suggested First Reading List for a Left Study Group
  2. pp. 140-145
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  1. Reproducing the Right Sort of Hierarchy
  2. pp. 146-153
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  1. The Spiritual Foundation ofAttachment to Hierarchy
  2. pp. 154-167
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  1. Power and Resistance inContemporary Legal Education
  2. pp. 168-184
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  1. Of Time and the Pedagogyof Critical Legal Studies
  2. pp. 185-209
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  1. Afterword
  2. pp. 202-222
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  1. About the Contributors
  2. p. 223
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