Cortelyou Kenney

Cortelyou Churchill Kenney, J.D., is an Assistant Professor at The University of Tulsa College of Law and an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School. Professor Kenney’s research problematizes game theorist John Nash’s support of efficiency and self interest. Her popular and original research uses methods from physics and mathematics to create innovations in game theory that promote generosity and reaches new answers in game theory games like the Prisoner’s Dilemma and Chicken.

Professor Kenney’s scholarship has appeared in the California Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Georgia Law Review, the Loyola Los Angeles Law Review and the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. She is currently working on two pre-prints intended for scientific publications, and law review versions of these pre-prints.

Previously, Professor Kenney was a clinician at Cornell Law School and Yale Law School and was a Grey Fellow at Stanford Law School. She also worked at the National Women’s Law Center and Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr. Professor Kenney clerked for Judge Roger Gregory of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and the late Judge Miriam Goldman Cedarbaum of the Southern District of New York. She graduated summa cum laude from Dartmouth College and received her J.D. from U.C. Berkeley School of Law, where she received the Philip & Barbara Kaplan Scholarship for academic excellence and commitment to public interest.

Professor Kenney was inducted this year into "Who's Who in America" based on her "professional integrity . . . outstanding achievement in [her] respective field[] and . . . innumerable contributions to society as a whole."

Professor Kenney's blog can be found here: https://cortelyoukenney.blogspot.com.