As updates are made to the AY2023-2024 course catalog, they will be posted here.
| 9/20/2023 | 2L students may now enroll in either of the following two Professional Responsibility courses: Legal Profession, or Legal Profession: Public Interest Lawyering, both taught by Ms. Jamie Wacks in Spring 2024. |
| 9/19/2023 | Mr. Sam Garcia will offer the reading group, Applying Legal Skills to VC Business Diligence, in Spring 2024. |
| 9/19/2023 | Mr. Alex Walker will offer the reading group, Language and the Law: Beyond the Canons, in Spring 2024. |
| 9/19/2023 | Professor Susan Farbstein will now offer the writing group, Human Rights, in Spring 2024. |
| 9/19/2023 | Professor Mark Ramseyer will now offer the writing group, Comparative Law, in Spring 2024. |
| 9/18/2023 | Dean Tomiko Brown-Nagin will now offer the writing group, After Affirmation Action – Paths to Access and Success in Education in the 21st Century, in Spring 2024. |
| 9/18/2023 | Professor Anna Lvovsky will offer the writing group, Gender, Sexuality, and the Law, in Spring 2024. |
| 9/8/2023 | Professor Sands’s course, The Nuremberg Trials, will be taught as a two-credit offering in Spring 2024. |
| 9/1/2023 | Lists of open seats and no waitlist for LLMs, Transfer JDs and Upper level JD students. |
| 8/31/2023 | Professor Christine Hayes will offer the seminar, Concepts of Divine Law in Historical Perspective, in Spring 2024. |
| 8/28/2023 | Ms. Dana Remus and Mr. Kareem Carryl will offer the course, Presidential Campaign Lawyering, in Winter 2024. |
| 8/28/2023 | Ms. Jocelyn Kennedy’s Spring 2024 course, Advanced Legal Research, has been cancelled. |
| 8/23/2023 | Mr. Oren Nimni will offer the course, Prison Law, in Spring 2024. |
| 8/23/2023 | Ms. Medha Gargeya will offer the reading group, Oversight and Separation of Powers, in Spring 2024. |
| 8/23/2023 | Mr. Gabriel Swiney’s Fall 2023 course, Space Law and Policy, has been cancelled. |
| 8/23/2023 | Lists of open seats and no waitlist for LLMs, Transfer JDs and Upper level JD students. |
| 8/22/2023 | Mr. Mitchell Johnston will offer the reading group, Law as a Complex System, in Spring 2024. |
| 8/22/2023 | Professor Roberto Tallarita’s Fall 2023 seminar, Law, Business, and the Public Good, will now be held on Thursdays from 6 – 8 p.m. |
| 8/21/2023 | Mr. Deepak Gupta’s Fall 2023 reading group, Entrepreneurship in the Public Interest, is by permission of instructor. Interested students should send a CV and paragraph stating interest in the course to dgupta@law.harvard.edu by September 8. Students will receive confirmation on their enrollment before add/drop ends on September 11. |
| 8/18/2023 | Lists of open seats and no waitlist for LLMs, Transfer JDs and Upper level JD students. |
| 8/17/2023 | Dr. Rochelle Walensky will offer the reading group, At the Intersection: Health, Public Health Policy and the Law, in Fall 2023. Students may register for the offering on 8/24/2023. |
| 8/11/2023 | Professor Jared Ellias will offer the course, Failed Corporations: A Post-Mortem, in Spring 2024. |
| 8/11/2023 | Ms. Sue Hendrickson’s Spring 2024 reading group, Rights-Respecting Tech Amidst Authoritarianism and Conflict, has been cancelled. |
| 8/9/2023 | Ms. Jacqueline Bhabha will offer the course, Migration, Refugees, and Human Rights, in Fall 2023. This course is jointly-listed with HKS. It will meet at HKS and scheduling will adhere to the HKS Academic Calendar. The first day of the fall semester at HKS is Wednesday, August 30, 2023. |
| Professor Kathryn Sikkink will offer the course, Global Governance, in Fall 2023. This course is jointly-listed with HKS. It will meet at HKS and scheduling will adhere to the HKS Academic Calendar. The first day of the fall semester at HKS is Wednesday, August 30, 2023. | |
| 8/9/2023 | Professor David King will offer the course, The U.S. Congress and Law Making, in Spring 2024. This course is jointly-listed with HKS. It will meet at HKS and scheduling will adhere to the HKS Academic Calendar. |
| 8/7/2023 | Dr. Baba Jallow will offer the reading group, Africa and the world, in Fall 2023. He will also offer the reading group, Exploring Truth Commissions, in Spring 2024. |
| 8/4/2023 | Professor Roberto Unger will offer the seminar, Central Issues in Legal and Social Thought, in Spring 2024. Professor Roberto Unger will also offer the following courses in Spring 2024: American Democracy Political Economy and Its Future Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Now |
| 8/1/2023 | Justice Rosalie Abella will offer the reading group, Equality, Discrimination and Human Rights, in Spring 2024. |
| 7/26/2023 | Dr. Ioannis Kalpouzos will offer the course, International Criminal Law, in Spring 2024. |
| 7/25/2023 | Professor Sherrilyn Ifill will offer the seminar, Reimagining American Democracy: the 14th Amendment, in Fall 2023. This seminar will be by permission of instructor for both JD and LLM students. Please send a one paragraph statement of interest to Carol Bateson (cbateson@law.harvard.edu) by August 15th. Please include in your statement of interest why you are interested in taking this seminar and one particular issue or aspect of the 14th amendment that you hope to learn more about in this class. |
| 7/25/2023 | Professor Daniel Farbman will offer the course, Local Government Law, in Fall 2023. For JD students, this course is available to add in Helios now. For LLM students, this course is available to include in Phase 2 Course Selection. |
| 7/25/2023 | Professor Molly Brady’s Spring 2024 course, State and Local Government Law, has been cancelled. |
| 7/21/2023 | Professor Kristen Stilt will offer the reading group, Rights of Nature, in Spring 2024. |
| 7/17/2023 | Mr. Sam Koolaq will offer the seminar, Music Contracts & Negotiations, in Spring 2024. |
| 7/14/2023 | Mr. Jonathan Wroblewski will now teach the Fall 2023 course, Government Lawyer, along with the Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 sections of the Government Lawyer: United States Attorney Clinic. |
| 7/14/2023 | Professor Alex Whiting’s three-credit Spring 2024 section of Evidence will now be taught by Ms. Emily Schulman for four credits, meeting on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 8-10am. |
| 7/14/2023 | Professor Alex Whiting’s Fall 2023 course, Criminal Procedure: Investigations, and Spring 2024 course, International Criminal Law, have both been cancelled. |
| 7/13/2023 | Ms. Asseret Frausto will offer the reading group, Spanish for Lawyers, in Spring 2024. |
| 7/11/2023 | Ms. Maggie Morgan will offer a section of the course, Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II, in Fall 2023. Enrollment is limited to foreign-educated LL.M. students and is designed specifically for those who wish to qualify for the New York State Bar Exam. |
| 7/11/2023 | Ms. Alexandra McKinney will offer two sections of the course, Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II, meeting on Mondays from 6-8pm on the following dates: – September 11 through October 16 – October 23 to November 27 Enrollment is limited to foreign-educated LL.M. students and is designed specifically for those who wish to qualify for the New York State Bar Exam. |
| 7/7/2023 | Mr. Mark Gordon and Ms. Meng Lu will offer the course, Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics, in Winter 2024. |
| 7/5/2023 | Students interested in Michael Dreeben’s Fall 2023 seminar, Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Workshop, should now submit their resume and a brief statement to Laura Zeng (lzeng@law.harvard.edu). Please resubmit if previously submitted to Liz Meyer. |
| 6/30/2023 | Professor James Greiner’s Fall 2023 reading group, Legal Policies, Randomized Control Trials, and Ethics, will meet on Tuesdays from 6-8pm. |
| 6/29/2023 | Professor Michael McCann will offer the course, Legal Research, Writing and Analysis I, in Fall 2023. Please note this course is limited to foreign-educated LL.M. students. |
| 6/29/2023 | List of Fall 2023 offerings with no waitlist and open seats for JD students available. |
| 6/27/2023 | Mr. Deepak Gupta will offer the seminar, Forced Arbitration and the American Civil Justice System, in Spring 2024. |
| 6/27/2023 | Professor Saikrishna Prakash will offer the reading group, Readings in Presidential Power, in Spring 2024. |
| 6/26/2023 | Mr. Brian Highsmith will offer the reading group, The Company Town: Corporate Power and Local Government Law, in Spring 2024. |
| 6/26/2023 | Mr. Hassaan Shahawy will offer the reading group, Islamic Law and Comparative Jurisprudence, in Spring 2024. |
| 6/20/2023 | Ms. Caitlin Halligan and Judge Michael Garcia will offer the reading group, State Constitutionalism, in Spring 2024. |
| 6/20/2023 | Ms. Caitlin Halligan’s Fall 2023 seminar, State Constitutionalism, has been cancelled. |
| 6/20/2023 | Mr. Michael Dreeban will teach the seminar, Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Workshop, in Fall 2023. Email applications to Laura Zeng (lzeng@law.harvard.edu) by August 1st. Any previously submitted applications should be resent to this email as well. |
| 6/15/2023 | Professor Nikolas Bowie’s Winter 2024 course, State and Local Government Law, has been cancelled. |
| 6/14/2023 | Professor Sabrineh Ardalan will offer the reading group, Middle Easterners in the United States and Law, in Spring 2024. |
| 6/14/2023 | Mr. Memme Onwudiwe and Mr. Jerry Ting will offer the reading group, Startup Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Legal Technology, in Spring 2024. |
| 6/9/2023 | Professor Stephen Sachs and Ms. Amanda Schwoerke will offer the seminar, Abortion: Law, Policy and Ethics, in Spring 2024. |
| 5/12/2023 | Ms. Antonia Apps and Ms. Sarah Eddy’s course, White Collar Criminal Law and Procedure, will now be offered on Mondays from 3:45 – 5:45 p.m. in Spring 2024. |
| 5/9/2023 | Professor Charles Nesson will offer the course, Deliberation, in Fall 2023. This course is available for JDs to enroll in through add/drop now. |
| 5/9/2023 | Professor Charles Nesson will offer the writing group, The American Jury, in Fall-Spring 2024. |
| 5/5/2023 | Professor Sargentich’s Spring 2024 Reading Group, Legal Skepticism, will now take place on Thursdays from 1:30 – 3:30 p.m. |
| 5/4/2023 | Ms. Elizabeth McClintock will offer the course, Processes of International Negotiations, in Spring 2024. |
| 5/3/2023 | Professor Ada Ordor will offer the course, The Legal Environment for Business in Africa, in Spring 2024. |
| 5/3/2023 | Professor Ada Ordor will offer the course, Regional Integration and Human Rights in Africa, in Spring 2024 |
| 5/2/2023 | Ms. Rebecca Richman Cohen will offer the reading group, Human Rights and Humanitarianism through the Lens of Documentary Film, in Spring 2024. |
| 5/2/2023 | Ms. Rebecca Richman Cohen will offer the seminar, Seeing Criminal (In)Justice: Examining the Interplay of Visual Media, Storytelling and Criminal Law, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/28/2023 | Professor Brian Wolfman will offer the course, Appellate Courts and Advocacy Workshop, in Winter 2024. Please note, this course includes a required writing in conjunction component in Spring 2024. |
| 4/26/2023 | Mr. Matthew Smith will offer the reading group, The Law and Persons with Intellectual Disabilities, in Spring 2024. |
| 4/21/2023 | Dr. Arevik Avedian’s Spring 2024 course, Applied Quantitative Analysis, will now be offered as a three-credit offering, meeting on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12:00pm. |
| 4/20/2023 | Professor Adriaan Lanni’s Spring 2024 seminar, Restorative and Transformative Justice, will no longer be by permission. To enroll students will preference this course during Spring Elective Course Selection. |
| 4/17/2023 | Ms. Antoinette Coakley will offer the course, Business Negotiations, in Fall 2023 as a three-credit offering. |
| 4/14/2023 | Mr. Jeff Seul will offer the course, Negotiating Across Worldviews, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/14/2023 | Professor Hannah Shaffer will offer the seminar, The American Prosecutor, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/14/2023 | Mr. Deepak Gupta will offer the reading group, Entrepreneurship in the Public Interest, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/14/2023 | Professor Susan Crawford will offer the seminar, The Law of Climate Adaptation, in Spring 2024. |
| 4/13/2023 | Professor Elizabeth Katz will offer the reading group, Children, Identity, and Family Law, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/13/2023 | Professor Lucie White will offer the course, Law and Inequality Workshop, in Spring 2024. |
| 4/13/2023 | Professor Lucie White’s clinical course, Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project, will meet on Tuesdays from 6-8pm in Spring 2024. |
| 4/12/2023 | Professor Ruth Okediji’s Legal Profession course will now be offered in Spring 2024, meeting on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:30am to 12:00pm. |
| 4/10/2023 | Professor Benjamin Sachs’s Spring 2024 Labor Law offering will now meet on Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:30-3:30pm. |
| 4/7/2023 | Ms. Sarah Reed and Ms. Robin Painter will offer the course, Nuts and Bolts of Forming a Venture Capital Fund, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/7/2023 | Professor Michael Sandel will offer the seminar, Ethics, Economics and the Law, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/6/2023 | Justice Stephen Breyer and Professor Cass Sunstein’s Fall 2023 seminar, The United States Supreme Court, will meet on Tuesdays from 1:30-3:30pm. |
| 4/6/2023 | Professor Guhan Subramanian’s Fall 2023 and Spring 2024 Deals offerings will meet on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays from 1:30-3:30pm. |
| 4/6/2023 | Honourable Justice Rosalie Abella will offer the seminar, Law and Literature: The Application of Law to Life, in Spring 2024. |
| 4/5/2023 | Professor Mihir Desai will offer a section of Taxation in Fall 2023. This course has been added to Multi-section Course Selection and is available now to add to your selections in Helios. |
| 4/5/2023 | Professor Philippe Sands will offer the course, The Nuremberg Trials, and the reading group, Decolonisation and the Law, in Spring 2024. |
| 4/5/2023 | Ms. Julie McComack and Ms. Elizabeth Gwin will offer the seminar, Poverty Law Workshop: Leveraging the Safety Net to Address Homelessness & Advance Equity, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/5/2023 | Mr. Mark Beckett and Mr. Daniel Tan will offer the course, International Commercial Arbitration, in Winter 2024. |
| 4/4/2023 | Professor Jon Hanson will offer the seminar, Critical Corporate Theory Lab, in Fall 2023. |
| 4/3/2023 | Professor Charles Nesson will offer the course, Trial by Jury, in Fall 2023, and the course, JuryX Workshop, in Winter 2024. |
| 4/3/2023 | Mr. Peter Brann will offer the course, The Role of the State Attorney General, in Spring 2024. |
| 4/3/2023 | Ms. Dale Cendali’s course, Copyright and Trademark Litigation, will be offered in Fall 2023. |
| 3/31/2023 | Mr. Roberto Tallarita will offer the seminar, Law, Business, and the Public Good, in Fall 2023, and a section of Corporations in Spring 2024. |
| 3/31/2023 | Bankruptcy and Public International Law will be part of multisection course selection. A full list of mulisection courses is available here. |
| 3/29/2023 | Mr. Mason Kortz will offer the reading group, Algorithms, Rights, and Responsibilities, in Spring 2024. |
| 3/29/2023 | Professors Guy-Uriel Charles and Luis Fuentes-Rohwer will offer the seminar, American Empire: Puerto Rico and the United States Territories, in Fall 2023 on Tuesdays from 3:45-5:45pm. |
| 3/28/2023 | Professor Michal Bar-Asher Siegal will offer both a course, Jews, Christians, and Law at the Beginning, and a seminar, Jewish Law and Critical Theory, in Fall 2023. |
| 3/28/2023 | Professor Tyler Giannini will offer the seminar, Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts, in Fall 2023, and the seminar, Business and Human Rights, in Spring 2024. |
| 3/28/2023 | Professor Katherine Meyer’s Fall 2023 Animal Law & Policy Clinical Seminar will meet on Wednesdays from 3:45-5:45pm. |
| 3/28/2023 | Professor Katherine Meyer’s Spring 2024 Animal Law & Policy Clinical Seminar will meet on Wednesdays from 1:30-3:30pm. |
| 3/27/2023 | Professor Elizabeth Kamali will offer the seminar, Mind and Criminal Responsibility in the Anglo-American Tradition, in Fall 2023. |
| 3/27/2023 | Mr. Timothy Edgar will offer the course, Legal Problems in Cybersecurity and Cyber Conflict, in Spring 2024. |
| 3/24/2023 | Professor Einer Elhauge will offer the course, Antitrust Law & Economics – Global, in Fall 2023. |