Kennedy (born September 10, 1954) is an American Law professor and author at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He is the Michael R.
Klein Professor of Law and focuses his research on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American life.
He specializes in the areas of contracts, freedom of expression, race relations law, civil rights legislation, and the Supreme Court.Kennedy has written six books: Interracial Intimacies: Sex, Marriage, Identity and Adoption; Nigger: The Strange Career of a Troublesome Word; Race, Crime, and the Law; Sellout: The Politics of Racial Betrayal; The Persistence of the Color Line; and For Discrimination: Race, Affirmative Action, and the Law.
Additionally, Kennedy has published numerous collections of shorter works.
Many of his articles can be found in periodicals and newspapers such as: The American Prospect, The Nation, The Atlantic Monthly, Georgetown Law Journal, Harvard BlackLetter Journal, and The Boston Globe.
His book Race, Crime, and the Law won the Robert F.