''Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy: A Polemic Against the System'' is an essay by
Duncan Kennedy 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.
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Critical legal studies
Critical legal studies (CLS) is a school of critical theory that developed in the United States during the 1970s.Alan Hunt, "The Theory of Critical Legal Studies," Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1986): 1-45, esp. 1, 5. Se DOI, 10.1 ...
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Philosophy of law
Philosophy of law is a branch of philosophy that examines the nature of law and law's relationship to other systems of norms, especially ethics and political philosophy. It asks questions like "What is law?", "What are the criteria for legal vali ...
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Legal Education and the Reproduction of Hierarchy
Philosophy of law
Legal education in the United States
Critical legal studies
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