David Kennedy (jurist)

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David Kennedy is the Manley Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and director of the European Law Research Center. He is one of the leaders of New Stream or New Approaches to International Law movement which applies Critical Legal Studies methodology to scholarship in international law.

David Kennedy has a Master's degree and a PhD from Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and a J.D. from Harvard. He has worked with United Nations, European Commission and in private practice.

His book Dark Sides of Virtue: Reassessing International Humanitarianism (Princeton University Press 2005 ISBN 0-691-12394-2) offers a critique of the international human rights movement.

He is a member of Council on Foreign Relations.

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