Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
I want to thank the editors of the Minnesota Law Review for soliciting this Reply to Professor Dale Carpenter's provocative analysis of my assessment of Justice Kennedy's opinion in Lawrence v. Texas. As it turns out, though we do disagree about Lawrence, Professor Carpenter and I have fewer disagreements than he thinks. To begin to see why, let us imagine that, like many other professors, he had used the facts and lower opinion in Lawrence as the basis for his final examination in his course on Constitutional Law. On the exam, he asked his students to write an opinion for the Court. Now imagine that one of his students submitted the words of Justice Kennedy's opinion in Lawrence as her answer. Would Professor Carpenter have given it an A?
Publication Citation
89 Minn. L. Rev. 1582-1590 (2005)
Scholarly Commons Citation
Barnett, Randy E., "Grading Justice Kennedy: A Reply to Professor Carpenter" (2005). Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works. 33.
https://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/33