Tanner Lectures on Human Values: Randall L. Kennedy (Harvard Law School): “In Praise of Racial Liberalism: Lecture I: What Does Racial Justice Mean Today?”

 Randall Kennedy’s lectures will posit the ends and means suitable currently for advancing the cause of racial justice in America. Lecture one will focus on aims: what should racial “justice” mean today?

Lecture I: What Does Racial Justice Mean Today?

Randall L. Kennedy (external link) is Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. He attended Princeton University, ’77, and Yale Law School. He clerked for Judge J. Skelly Wright and for Justice Thurgood Marshall. A member of the bars of the District of Columbia and the United States Supreme Court, he is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society. He is the author of several books, the most recent of which is “Say it Loud! On Race, Law, Culture and History.”