Legal Left and Left Politics - Tensions and Possibilities, SOAS, University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2014-06-03

This session entitled "Legal Left and Left Politics - Tensions and Possibilities" was part of the The Past and Future of the Legal Left: Celebrating Duncan Kennedy's Scholarship conference which tool place at SOAS, University of London on 22 May 2014.

There were three speakers at this session, two are on this video:

Contingency in the Deep Legal Structure of Market Societies
Professor Hugh Collins, All Souls College, Oxford University

"Legal Education as a Training for Hierarchy" - Revisited
Professor Nicola Lacey, London School of Economics and Political Science


Moderator: Dr Prabha Kotiswaran, Senior Lecturer, King's College London
Discussant: Dr Gina Heathcote, Senior Lecturer, School of Law, SOAS


This conference honored Professor Duncan Kennedy, one of the most influential legal theorists and left critics of our time. 

After teaching for more than four decades at Harvard Law School, Professor Kennedy announced his intention to retire. Kennedy's brilliant contributions have challenged our thinking on law and its role in society. 

He never shied away from controversy and engaged in a variety of academic and political debates. Admirably, he was able to commit simultaneously to both an intellectual critique and left-wing politics, without the political stifling critique or the latter undermining the political. 

In addition, Professor Kennedy was not content with offering critique and deconstruction, as some of his writings included highly specific and programmatic proposals.

You can find out more about this conference at http://bit.ly/1orIqzx
you can find out more about studying law at SOAS at http://www.soas.ac.uk/law