RWU School of Law Thurgood Marshall Memorial Lecture: Randall Kennedy

Randall Kennedy, professor of law at Harvard Law School, will be the guest speaker in the sixth annual lecture series honoring the memory of Thurgood Marshall – a key architect in the U.S. Civil Rights movement.

Kennedy teaches courses on contracts, criminal law, and the regulation of race relations. Born in Columbia, South Carolina, Kennedy 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. He is a member of the bar of the District of Columbia and the Supreme Court of the United States. Awarded the 1998 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for Race, Crime, and the Law, Kennedy writes for a wide range of scholarly and general interest publications. His most recent 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). 
The lecture will be held in the RWU School of Law Appellate Courtroom 283. RSVP is required to the Office of Alumni, Programs & Events at lawevents@rwu.edu.