2026-2027 Course and Schedule Updates

As updates are made to the AY2026-2027 course catalog, they will be posted here.

DateUpdate
9/16/2026Mr. Mason Kortz will offer the reading group, Algorithms, Rights, and Responsibilities, in Spring 2027.
9/15/2026Writing Group registration forms are due Friday, September 18 for fall and fall-spring groups. 
 
Students in writing groups related to civil rights history are invited to apply for a unique winter term civil rights history tour and writing project organized for New England area law students by judges from the Massachusetts and Rhode Island U.S. District Courts.  The two writing credits for the writing group registration must be in the winter term.  The tour application is due October 1. See this announcement for more information.
9/9/2026Provost John Manning and Justice Stephen Breyer will offer the reading group, Statutory Interpretation in a Constitutional Democracy, in Spring 2027.
9/8/2026Professor Jon Hanson will offer the writing group, The Problem of Corporate Power, over the full-year.
9/8/2026Professor Alan Jenkins’s Spring 2027 offerings, Race and the Law and Framing, Narrative, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence, have been cancelled.
9/4/2026Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen will offer the writing group, Constitutional Law, Family Law, Criminal Law, Civil Rights Law, in Spring 2027.
9/4/2026Although the add/drop period has ended, some fall clinics may still be able to accommodate new students.  Please view a list of possibilities here.  Contact Maggie Bay (mbay@law.harvard.edu) with any questions about enrolling.
8/28/2026A list of classes with open seats and no waitlist is now available for JDs and LLMs.
8/28/2026Professor Andrew Mergen and Ms. Carrie Jenks will offer the course, Environmental Legislation and Regulation Lab, in Winter 2027.
8/21/2026A list of classes with open seats and no waitlist is now available for JDs and LLMs.
8/17/2026Mr. John Cushman and Ms. Jenevieve Haggard will offer the seminar, Agentic Legal Engineering, in Spring 2027.
8/17/2026Professor Philip Torrey will offer the writing group, Immigration, over the full-year.
8/12/2026Professor Rachel Viscomi’s Fall 2026 course, Beyond Advocacy: Leading High Stakes Conversations, has been cancelled.
8/10/2026Mr. Peter Hutt’s Winter 2027 course, Food and Drug Law, will no longer be offered.
8/5/2026Ms. Corinne Blalock will offer the reading group, The Promises and Pitfalls of Municipal Socialism, in Spring 2027.
8/5/2026Ms. Asseret Frausto will offer the reading group, Spanish for Lawyers, in Spring 2027.
8/5/2026Professor Kristen Eichensehr and Ms. Margaret Taylor will offer the seminar, National Security and Congressional Powers, in Spring 2027.
8/5/2026Mr. Michaeljit Sandhu will offer the reading group, Liberalism and Its Discontents, in Spring 2027.
8/4/2026Professor Yochai Benkler will offer the Workshop on Law and Political Economy on Wednesdays from 3:45pm to 5:45pm in Spring 2027.
8/4/2026Professor Vicki Jackson’s Spring 2027 reading group, Constitutional Dimensions of the Administrative State: Comparative Perspectives, will meet on Tuesdays from 6:00pm to 8:00pm.
8/4/2026Professor Christopher Lewis’ Spring 2027 course, Criminal Law, will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:30pm to 3:30pm and seminar, Theories of Punishment, on Wednesdays from 3:45pm to 5:45pm.
7/27/2026Professor Holger Spamann’s Fall 2026 Corporations course will meet over the first eight weeks of the academic year from September 9th to October 30th, meeting from 8:00 am to 10:00 am on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
7/27/2026Professor Holger Spamann’s Fall 2026 Corporate Finance course will meet over the first eight weeks of the academic year from September 10th to October 30th, meeting from 10:15 am to 12:15 pm on Thursdays and Fridays.
7/15/2026Professor David Kennedy and Professor Sheila Jasanoff’s fall seminar, Knowledge and Power in Science and Law is no longer by permission. JD students may enroll in the Add/Drop section of Helios.
7/10/2026Professor Monika Bickert will offer the course, Artificial Intelligence and Speech Governance, in Spring 2027.
7/9/2026Mr. Memme Onwudiwe will offer the reading group, Practical Uses for AI in Law, in Spring 2027.
7/6/2026Mr. Matthew Olsen will offer the seminar, National Security Law and Practice, in Spring 2027.
7/2/2026Judge Raymond Kethledge will offer the seminar, Classical Liberalism and the Rule of Law, in Spring 2027.
7/2/2026Professor Anna Lvovsky will offer a writing group on Gender, Sexuality, and the Law in Spring 2027.
6/30/2026Professor Matthew Stephenson will offer the seminar, Shakespeare and Law, in Spring 2027 on Tuesday evenings from 6pm to 8pm.
6/29/2026Mr. Victor Madrigal-Borloz will offer the reading group, Regional Human Rights Law: The Inter-American Perspective, in Spring 2027.
6/29/2026Ms. Amy Kao will offer the seminar, The In-House Counselor, in Spring 2027.
6/23/2026Ms. Jennifer Rosenbaum will offer the course, Migrant Workers and the Global Economy, in Winter 2027.
6/23/2026Ms. Nina Perales and Mr. Thomas Saenz will offer the reading group, Current Topics in Latino Civil Rights, in Spring 2027 on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:15am to 12:15pm.
6/23/2026Professor William Tanner Allread will offer a seminar, Tribal Law, in Fall 2026 as well as a section of Property in Spring 2027.

For Tribal Law, this seminar will be available for JD students to add through Add/Drop in Helios at noon on July 1.
6/15/2026Mr. John Finley will offer the Reading Group, Public Policy Issues Concerning Private Equity and Other Alternative Assets, in Fall 2026.
6/15/2026Mr. Lobsang Sangay will offer the Reading Group, Tibet and China, in Spring 2027.
6/12/2026A list of classes with open seats and no waitlist is now available for JD students.
6/9/2026Mr. Mark Plotkin will offer the course, National Security Practice, in Winter 2027.
6/8/2026Mr. Sam Garcia will offer the reading group, Applying Legal Skills to VC Business Diligence, in Spring 2027.
6/3/2026The following Legal Research, Writing and Analysis offerings will be offered in Fall 2026:

– Legal Research, Writing and Analysis I with Professor Michael McCann
– Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II with Professor Michael McCann
– Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II A with Ms. Alexandra McKinney
– Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II B with Ms. Alexandra McKinney

Enrollment in LRWA is limited to foreign-educated LL.M. students.
6/3/2026Professor Reinier Kraakman will offer the seminars, Controlling Shareholders and Corporate Law, and Conceptions of Legal Entities, in Spring 2027.
6/1/2026Professor Roberto Tallarita’s Spring 2027 Cicero for Lawyers course has been changed to a reading group, Cicero: Selected Judicial and Political Speeches. This reading group will meet on Fridays from 1:30pm to 3:00pm.
6/1/2026Mr. James Tierney will offer the reading group, With changes in the federal government, what is next for State Attorneys General?, in Spring 2027.
5/26/2026Professor Monika Bickert will offer the course, Online Speech Governance, in Fall 2026.

For JD students, this course will be available to add through Add/Drop in Helios starting on June 15th.
5/18/2026A list of classes with open seats and no waitlist is now available for JD students.
5/12/2026Mr. Joshua Rovenger will offer the course, Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Law, in Spring 2027.
5/11/2026Ms. Alana Frederick and Judge Kevin Newsom will offer the course, Interpreting Written Law: Formalism, Pragmatism, and Beyond, in Spring 2027.
5/11/2026Judge Vince Chhabria will offer the course, Litigation and Public Policy, in Spring 2027.
4/20/2026Professor Kristen Eichensehr will offer the seminar, Economic Tools of National Security, in Fall 2026.

For JD students, this seminar has been added to Fall Elective course selection.
4/17/2026Professor Kristen Eichensehr’s Fall 2026 reading group, The Evolving National Security State, will no longer be offered.
4/17/2026Judge David Barron, Professor Archon Fung, and Ms. Sarah Wald will offer the seminar, Public Problems: Advice, Strategy, and Analysis, in Fall 2026.
4/15/2026Professor Alma Cohen will offer the course, Empirical Methods and Data Analysis for Lawyers, in Fall 2026.
4/15/2026Professor Alma Cohen and Professor Lucian Bebchuk will offer the course, Empirical Law and Finance, in Fall 2026.
4/14/2026Professor Ronald Sullivan and Mr. Duncan Levin will offer the course, Cash, Crime, and the Constitution: The Legal Frontiers of Asset Forfeiture and Money Laundering, in Winter 2027.
4/13/2026Professor Rachel Viscomi will offer the course, Beyond Advocacy: Leading High Stakes Conversations, in Fall 2026.
4/13/2026The 2026-2027 Writing Group page is now available. It contains the full list of of available Writing Groups as of this date.
4/9/2026Professor David Wilkins and Professor Anthea Roberts will offer the seminar, AI, Complex Decision-Making, and the Future of the Legal Profession, in Fall 2026.
4/9/2026Professor Tamar Herzog will offer the full-year course, Colonial Law in Time(s) and Space(s). This course is cross-listed with FAS and will meet at FAS.
4/8/2026Ms. Sara Budish will offer the reading group, Contemporary Dilemmas in Dispute Resolution, in Spring 2027.
4/8/2026Professor Cass Sunstein and Justice Stephen Breyer will offer the seminar, The United States Supreme Court, in Fall 2026 on Mondays from 3:45PM to 5:45PM.
4/8/2026Ambassador Samantha Power and Professor Cass Sunstein will offer the course, Making Change When Change is Hard: the Law, Politics, and Policy of Social Change, in Fall 2026 on Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:00PM to 3:00PM at HLS.
4/8/2026Ambassador Samantha Power will offer the seminar, The War in Ukraine: The Past, Present, and Future of International Law, Geopolitics and Development, in Spring 2027 at HKS.
4/7/2026Mr. Michael Dreeben will offer the seminar, Executive Accountability, in Fall 2026.
4/7/2026Mr. Joshua Gardner and Ms. Samantha Chaifetz will offer the course, Legal Profession: Government Lawyering, in Spring 2027.
4/3/2026Judge Nancy Gertner will offer the seminars, Law and Neuroscience, and Mass Incarceration and Sentencing Law, in Spring 2027.
4/2/2026Mr. Alexander Chen’s Spring 2027 LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic and Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Law course have been cancelled.
4/1/2026Professor Andrew Mergen’s Fall 2026 Environmental Law and Policy Clinical Seminar will be offered on Wednesdays from 3:45pm to 5:45pm.
3/31/2026Professor Thomas Brennan will offer the course, Taxation, in Spring 2027, and a full-year Writing Group on Taxation.
3/31/2026 Professor Katharine Young will offer the reading group, Economic and Social Rights: Prospects and Perils, in Spring 2027.
3/30/2026Ms. Melanie Goins and Ms. Amy Sennett will offer the seminar, The GC in High-Growth Startups, in Spring 2027.