Deseriee A. Kennedy

Associate Professor of Law
B.A., 1984, Lehigh University
J.D., 1987, Harvard University
LL.M., 1995, Temple University

Civil Procedure, Family Law, Women and the Law, Family Violence, and Business Torts

Kennedy@libra.law.utk.edu

Professor Kennedy is a 1987 graduate of Harvard Law School and came to the College of Law in 1995 from the Temple University School of Law, where she was an Abraham Freedman Fellow. Prior to that, she practiced commercial litigation with Bickel & Brewer in Dallas and Pepper, Hamilton & Scheetz in Los Angeles and was an Assistant City Solicitor in the Office of City Solicitor in Philadelphia, Pa. Professor Kennedy has also been involved in a number of public interest cases. She has represented clients in children's rights cases, worked on death penalty cases, and was a volunteer member of the Independent Commission on the Los Angeles Police Department. She has served on the board of advisors to Garden Montessori and is currently on the board of the Lisa Ross Birth and Women's Center. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of the YWCA and is currently President of the UT Faculty Senate. Her work has been published in the Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics, the Arizona State Law Journal, the Missouri Law Review, and other journals.

Publications

       Articles:

Transversal Feminism and Transcendence, 15 S. Cal. Rev. L. & Women's Stud. 65 (2005).

Consumer Discrimination, to be included in Otis H. Stephens, Jr. and John M. Scheb II, Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties (forthcoming 2005).

Ann Bartow, F. Carolyn Graglia, Joan M. Heminway, and Deseriee Kennedy, The Feminist Pervasion: How Gender-Based Scholarship Informs Law and Law Teaching (forthcoming in Southern California Review of Law and Women’s Studies 2005)

Catherine A. Luther, Deseriee A. Kennedy, Terri Combs-Orme, Intertwining of Poverty, Gender, and Race: A Critical Analysis of Welfare News Coverage from 1993-2000, J. Race, Gender & Class Vol. 12, No. 2 2005 (9-32).

Processing Civil Rights: Summary Judgment and Consumer Discrimination Claims, 53 DePaul L. Rev. 989 (2004).

Judicial Review and Diversity, 71 Tenn. L. Rev. 287 (2004).

Consumer Discrimination: the Limitations of Federal Civil Rights Protection, 66 Mo. L. Rev. 275 (2001).

Marketing Goods, Marketing Images: The Impact of Advertising on Race, 32 Ariz St. L.J. 615 (2000).

Witnessing the Process: Reflections on Civil Procedure, Power, Pedagogy & Praxis, 32 Loy. of L.A. L. Rev. 753 (1999).

Radicalism, Racism and Affirmative Action: In Defense of a Historical Approach, 27 Capital L. Rev. 61 (1998).

Predisposed with Integrity: The Elusive Quest for Justice in Tripartite Arbitrations, 8 Georgetown J Legal Ethics 749 (1995).

Chapter:

Decolonizing Culture: Black Women, Media & the Law, chapter in text, Stepping Forward: Black Women in Africa and the Americas (Catherine Higgs, et. al, ed.) (Ohio University Press 2002).

Works in Progress

Summary Judgment & Race

Is Feminism A Revolt Against God? - Feminism, the New Christian Right, and Abstinence Only Education

March 27, 2006