Workshops and Seminars for Students and Faculty

The Health Law, Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. For information about the workshops you can contact David LeBreton.

This seminar provides students with an opportunity to engage with ongoing research in the economic analysis of law.

Fall 2025 — Professors Louis Kaplow & Steven Shavell
TUESDAYS, 4:00-5:30 PM, HAUSER 102

Sept. 2:            Student-Only Session

Sept. 9:            Kobi Kastiel (Tel Aviv University), Opting Out of Court? Reputation and Informal Norms in Private Equity

Sept. 16:          Daniel Francis (NYU), Post-Profit Antitrust

Sept. 23:          Student-Only Session

Sept. 30:          Mark Ramseyer (HLS), The Ainu and the Evolutionary Context to Law: Implications for Legal Transitions that Antedate the Agricultural Transition

Oct. 7:             Meirav Furth-Matzkin (Tel Aviv University and New York University), Contracting for Deference

[Oct. 14:         Today is a “Monday”]

Oct. 21:           Maya Durvasula (Stanford University), Missing Markets for Innovation: Evidence from New Uses for Existing Drugs

Oct. 28:           Lucian Bebchuk (HLS), Three Conceptions of Capitalism

Nov. 4:            Daniel Sokol (University of Southern California and HBS), Cookie Intermediaries: Does Competition Enhance Privacy in the Data Supply Chain?

Nov. 11:          Nicholas Stephanopoulos (HLS), Redistricting without Tradeoffs

Nov. 18:          Emma Harrington (University of Virginia) and Hannah Shaffer (HLS), Surveilling Police

Nov. 25:          Howell Jackson (HLS), The Financial Stability Oversight Council After 15 Years: An Evaluation and Proposal for Reform

Also, two evening sessions for the students will be held in [xxx] on Thursday, October 9 and Thursday, November 6 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

The course website is available at: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/159798 Select “Syllabus” for papers and the course schedule, or contact Molly Eskridge, (617) 495-4635.

This workshop examines new ideas at the intersection of law and philosophy. The workshop focuses on discussion of pre-circulated working papers presented by their authors.

Fall 2025 — Professors Benjamin Eidelson & Ryan Doerfler
WEDNESDAYS, 3:45-5:45 PM, Hauser 105

• September 10, 2025
  Ronni Gura Sadovsky (Trinity University)
• September 17, 2025
  Felipe Jiménez (USC Gould School of Law)
• September 24, 2025
  Zoë Johnson King (Harvard University)
• October 1, 2025
  Marcela Prieto (USC Gould School of Law)
• October 8, 2025
  Sherif Girgis (Notre Dame Law School)
• October 15, 2025
  Hasan Dindjer (All Souls College, Oxford)
• October 22, 2025
  Gregg Strauss (UVA School of Law)
• October 29, 2025
  Ketan Ramakrishnan (Yale Law School)
• November 5, 2025
  Emad Atiq (Cornell Law School)
• November 12, 2025
  Rachel Bayefsky (UVA School of Law)

The course website is available at: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/159951. Select “Syllabus” for papers and the course schedule, or contact Maureen Worth.

This seminar involves the presentation by speakers of papers in the fields of law and economics, law and finance, and contract theory.

Fall 2025 – Professors Louis Kaplow, Lucian Bebchuk, Oliver Hart and Kathryn Spier
MONDAYS, 12:45-2:15 PM, HAUSER 105

Sept. 8:            Jesse Shapiro (Harvard), Pitfalls of Demographic Forecasts of US Elections

Sept. 15:          Roberto Tallarita (HLS), The Price of Delaware Corporate Governance Reform

Sept. 22:          Nathan Hendren (MIT), A Welfare Analysis of Policies Impacting Climate Change

Sept. 29:          Wei Jiang (Emory University), Common Investors Across the Capital Structure: Private Debt Funds as Dual Holders

Oct. 6:             Claudia Goldin (Harvard), Why Women Won

Oct. 14:           Charlie Wang (HBS), Does Share Repurchase Legalization Really Harm Corporate Investments?

[PLEASE NOTE THIS DATE IS A TUESDAY]

Oct. 20:           Josh Lerner (HBS), Private Equity and Workers: Modeling and Measuring Monopsony, Implicit Contracts, and Efficient Reallocation

Oct. 27:           Crystal Yang (HLS), The Hidden Health Care Crisis Behind Bars: A Randomized Trial to Accredit U.S. Jails

Nov. 3:            Marcel Kahan (New York University), Corporate Governance and Firm Value

Nov. 10:          Andrew Newman (Boston University and Harvard), Competing for the Quiet Life: An Organizational Theory of Market Structure

Nov. 17:          Emma Harrington (University of Virginia) and Hannah Shaffer (HLS), Surveilling Police

Nov. 24:          Edward Glaeser (Harvard), Who Reforms and How

^*For additional information, please visit the course website at:

at: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/159799. Select “Syllabus” for papers and the course schedule, or contact Molly Eskridge, (617) 495-4635.

The Health Law, Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world’s leading experts. You can visit the Petrie-Flom Center for Upcoming Health Law Workshops. For information about the workshops you can contact David LeBreton.

This seminar provides students with an opportunity to engage with ongoing research in the economic analysis of law.

Spring 2026 — Professor Louis Kaplow & Professor Steven Shavell
TUESDAYS,4:00-5:30 PM, Hauser 102

Schedule forthcoming.

The course website is available at: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/152447 . Select “Syllabus” for papers and the course schedule, or contact Matthew Hunt.

This workshop is devoted to learning about, discussing, and critically evaluating new scholarly work on law and politics. A series of outside speakers, drawn from both law schools and political science departments, will present recent or forthcoming papers on election law and/or American politics.

Spring 2026 — Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos
WEDNESDAYS, 3:45-5:45 PM, 

Schedule forthcoming.

For faculty or non-registered students who want to attend, please contact Kathy McGillicuddy.

The Public Law Workshop reads contemporary work, in legal theory and adjacent disciplines, on the legal and political foundations of constitutional law, interpretive practice, and regulatory design. Invited speakers present papers each week on topics relevant to the workshop’s themes. Students are required to prepare written questions for each workshop as well as a response paper on a presented work of their choosing.

Spring 2026: Professors Daphna Renan and Matthew Stephenson
WEDNESDAYS, 3:45-5:45PM, 

Schedule forthcoming.

Faculty are welcome to join the sessions.

Papers will be distributed roughly one week prior to each session. For more information, please contact