Prominent Harvard Law School professors Randall L. Kennedy, Martha L. Minow, and Cass R. Sunstein recently founded The American Journal of Law and Equality, a publication committed to investigating equality â and the lack thereof â in American society.
The journal will publish annually and the three professors will edit each issue, a distinction from most law reviews, which are traditionally edited by students.
Minow â who is a University professor, the highest faculty honor at Harvard â said the idea originated from Sunstein, another University professor who is currently on leave from the Law School serving as senior counselor in the Biden administrationâs Department of Homeland Security.
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Three Harvard Law School professors have teamed up with the MIT Press to launch a new journal focused on issues of inequality. The
American Journal of Law and Equality will be led and edited by its founders, Randall L Kennedy, the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law; Martha Minow, the 300th Anniversary University Professor; and Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor.
The new journal is expected to appear once per year and include a diversity of scholarship and views from experts and practitioners from in and outside the legal academy. The first issue, expected this summer, will include essays related to Harvard Professor Michael J. Sandel s recent book, The Tyranny of Merit: What s Become of the Common Good?, which challenges the hubris a meritocracy generates among the winners and the harsh judgement it imposes on those left behind.