Encounters with Critical Legal Studies, SOAS, University of London
Channel: SOAS University of London
Date: 2014-06-03

This session entitled "Encounters with Critical Legal Studies" 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:

A reasonable man: Duncan Kennedy, Law and Feminist Critique
Professor Joanne Conaghan, University of Bristol Law School

Critical Legal Studies and Post-modernism
Dr Raef Zreik, Minerva Center, Tel Aviv University

Critical Legal Studies and Development Studies
Dr Dina Waked

Moderator: Professor Lynn Welchman, School of Law, SOAS
Discussant: Dr Brenna Bhandar, 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