Jedediah Purdy

Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law

purdy@law.duke.edu

Duke Law School Room 4178, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

Duke Law School 210 Science Dr, Duke Box 90362, Durham, NC 27708

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In the News

Published June 22, 2023

Hot Off the Press: Summer Reading From Duke Authors

Published May 4, 2023

Duke Awards 44 Distinguished Professorships

Published April 3, 2023

Purdy Defends Democracy, Urges Vigilance in Latest Book

Published January 5, 2017

Luce Grant to Support Four-Year Kenan-Led Multidisciplinary Project

Published November 9, 2016

Ideas That Move the World Forward: Jedediah Purdy

Published November 8, 2016

Jed Purdy: I Hear America Singing (A Canvassing Poem)

Published October 12, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: Populisms two paths

Published August 4, 2016

Jedediah Purdy examines past and possible future of voting rights in America

Published August 3, 2016

A Voting-Rights Victory in N.C.

Published July 27, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: How to fight Trump

Published July 26, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: America's rejection of the politics of Barack Obama

Published July 25, 2016

America's Rejection of Obama's Politics

Published June 1, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: On Memorial Day, weaponizing the American flag

Published May 20, 2016

Jedediah Purdy’s ‘After Nature’: The Anthropocene truism

Published May 12, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: What West Virginia is saying at the polls

Published May 11, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: McCrory's HB2 gambit reveals ‘fractured and desperate’ GOP

Published May 6, 2016

What Trump’s Rise Means for Democracy

Published May 6, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: What Trump’s rise means for democracy

Published March 22, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: The violent remaking of Appalachia

Published March 15, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: 2016 U.S. presidential race undermines ‘end of history’ theory

Published March 8, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: A wild way to save the planet

Published March 3, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: Surviving the Anthropocene -- what's next for humanity?

Published February 17, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: Scalia’s contradictory originalism

Published February 16, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: Attacks on Sanders as an unserious candidate may be resonating with elites more

Published February 15, 2016

Jedediah Purdy comments: Media struggle with how to cover Trump

Published February 9, 2016

Elite's Impatience with the Sanders' Campaign

Published February 8, 2016

We asked 6 political scientists if Bernie Sanders would have a shot in a general election

Published February 8, 2016

Jedediah Purdy examines the Democratic primary and ‘political adulthood’

Published February 4, 2016

Bernie is Not the New Barry -- And That's Good

Published February 3, 2016

Jedediah Purdy comments: What we can learn from Bernie Sanders's Iowa voters

Published February 2, 2016

Jedediah Purdy analyzes Oregon occupiers' ‘secessionist theatre’

Published January 28, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: Donald Trump's brutal charm

Published January 27, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: Sanders and the theory of change – radical politics for grown-ups

Published January 22, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: What is the Constitution for?

Published January 19, 2016

Jedediah Purdy: Bernie is not the new Barry -- and that's a good thing

Published January 12, 2016

Jedediah Purdy launches debate on democratizing human influence on the environment

Published January 7, 2016

Jedediah Purdy examines the Oregon occupiers and ‘the irony of American vigilantism’

Published December 15, 2015

We Are the Climate Change Complacency We Seek

Published December 15, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: We are the climate change complacency we seek

Published December 8, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: Repudiate Trump's ‘monstrous’ call for a ban on Muslim immigrants

Published November 24, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: Bernie Sanders’ New Deal socialism

Published November 10, 2015

Meet author and law professor Jedediah Purdy

Published October 21, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: In defense of Thoreau

Published October 7, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: ‘After Nature: A Politics for the Anthropocene’

Published September 19, 2015

Climate Apocalypse and/or Democracy

Published September 18, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: Climate apocalypse and/or democracy

Published September 10, 2015

After Nature: New Thinking on Politics and Culture

Published September 9, 2015

Jedediah Purdy’s ‘After Nature’ ‘may very well be the Silent Spring of the 21st century’

Published September 4, 2015

The Amazon Economy

Published September 4, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: The Amazon economy

Published September 1, 2015

Foodies Can Succeed Where Environmentalists Failed

Published September 1, 2015

Excerpted from Jedediah Purdy's ‘After Nature’: Foodies can succeed where environmentalists failed

Published August 21, 2015

Jedediah Purdy takes stock of environmentalism's racist history

Published June 17, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: Tenure, fairness, and fear(lessness)

Published June 12, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: The GOP opts out of equality

Published June 11, 2015

The GOP Opts Out of Equality

Published April 1, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: Imagining the Anthropocene

Published March 20, 2015

Jedediah Purdy: Ayn Rand comes to UNC