HarvardSpeak LA: “How We Overcame: Protest, Law, and the Demise of Jim Crow” – A Conversation with Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy
Prof. Kennedy will discuss his forthcoming book, “How We Overcame: Protest, Law, and the Demise of Jim Crow.” The event will be moderated by Neil B. Morganbesser ’86.
Thursday, March 20, 2025 @ 5:00-6:00pm
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Contact: Neil Morganbesser, nmorganbesser@gmail.com
Randall Kennedy is Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina and attended St. Albans School, Princeton University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court. Awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law, Prof. Kennedy writes for a wide range of scholarly and general interest publications. His other books are For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law (2013), The Persistence of the Color Line: Racial Politics and the Obama Presidency (2011), Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal (2008), Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity, and Adoption (2003), and Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word (2002). A member of the American Law Institute, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Association, Mr. Kennedy is also a Trustee emeritus of Princeton University.
The event will be moderated by Neil B. Morganbesser ’86.
About HarvardSpeak LA
HarvardSpeak LA is a new program designed to bring preeminent Harvard faculty and researchers to discuss current topics of interest with the Harvard Club of Southern California through one-hour webinars, consisting of a presentation followed by Q&A.
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