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Randall

LeRoy 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 his research focuses on the intersection of racial conflict and

legal institutions in American life. He specializes in 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.

Kennedy has also published several 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. Kennedy Book Award. Randall LeRoy Kennedy was

born on September 10, 1954, in Columbia, South Carolina,

the middle child of Henry Kennedy Sr., a postal worker, and Rachel Kennedy, an

elementary school teacher. He has two siblings, Henry H. Kennedy, Jr., a

former United States District Court Judge for the District of Columbia, and

Angela Kennedy, a lawyer at the Public Defender Service for the District of Columbia. Kennedy

has said that tales of racial oppression and racial resistance were staples of

conversation in his household. His father often spoke of watching Thurgood Marshall argue Rice vs. Elmore, the

case that invalidated the rule permitting only whites to vote in South

Carolina's Democratic primary. Later

that decade, fleeing the abuses of Jim Crow, his parents moved to Washington, D.C. Kennedy

attended St. Albans School in Washington, D.C., and graduated cum laude with

an A.B. in history from Princeton University in

1977 after completing an 135-page long senior thesis, "Richard Hofstadter: The

Historian as Social Critic."[3] He then studied as a Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford from

1977 to 1979 and at Yale Law School, where he

received a J.D. in 1982. Kennedy served as an editor for the Yale Law Journal. He served as a law clerk for Judge J. Skelly Wright of the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in

1982–83 and for Justice Thurgood Marshall of the United States Supreme Court in

1983-84. He was admitted to the Washington, D.C. bar in 1983. He is a member of the bar

of the Supreme Court of the

United States, a fellow of the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical

Association.