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Jedediah Purdy

Jedediah Purdy

Raphael Lemkin Distinguished Professor of Law
School 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

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