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Randall Kennedy to Speak at UVA Law

March 22, 2022
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Randall L. Kennedy of Harvard Law School will deliver the McCorkle Lecture at UVA Law. He will speak on racial justice and the Civil Rights Era from 1950-1970.

Kennedy is the Michael R. Klein Professor at Harvard Law School, where he teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. He served as a law clerk for J. Skelly Wright of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit and for Thurgood Marshall of the U.S. Supreme Court. In 1998, he was awarded the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law.

The event is open to the public and will take place today, March 23, at the Caplin Pavilion at 4pm ET. Learn more here.

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Ten years ago, Duke Law School began publishing Judicature. Among the articles published in that first Duke edition was a lecture titled “Grand Challenges, Grand Ideas,” by David F. Levi, then-dean of Duke Law School. He highlighted five key issues of keen concern to the judiciary: access to justice; justice at a reasonable cost; an independent, transparent judiciary; criminal justice reform; and maintaining a sense of purpose.

 

Traynor on Liberty, Law, and Democracy

In his essay "Liberty, Law, and Democracy: Are There Grounds for Realistic Optimism?" Michael Traynor, former President of The American Law Institute, reflects on the challenges facing American democracy amid political polarization and institutional strain. He examines threats to the balance between liberty and law, citing dysfunction across the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, while drawing on historical context and recent scholarship to frame these concerns.

Collins J. Seitz Jr. Elected CCJ President and NCSC Chair 

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