Kenney is Specialist at U.C. Berkeley School of Law. She dedicates her research and writing to constitutional law, economics, and progressive law and economics in support of adjacent disciplines such as behavioral law and economics, law and political economy, critical race theory, and cooperation scholarship. Her work draws on literature in physics, mathematics, and evolutionary biology to look at innovations in game theory that focus on generosity and has significant ramifications for the climate crisis and for sustainable business. Previously, she was Academic Fellow at Cornell Law School and the Associate Director of Cornell Law School's First Amendment Clinic. Her scholarship has appeared in the California Law Review, the Fordham Law Review, the Loyola Los Angeles Law Review, and the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal. Her job talk piece is forthcoming in the Georgia Law Review (ranked as a top-20 journal).
Kenney is also an Affiliated Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School, and a former Research Scholar in Law and Staff Attorney at Yale Law School's Collaboration for Research Integrity and Transparency as well as a Clinical Instructor at Yale Law School’s Media Freedom & Information Access Clinic. Previously, she also taught at Stanford Law School, where she was a Thomas C. Grey Fellow; was a fellow at the National Women's Law Center; and was a litigator at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr in Washington, D.C. She 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.
