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 2026 — Professor Louis Kaplow
TUESDAYS, 4:00-5:30 PM, HAUSER 102

Sept. 8:            Mark Roe (HLS), “Liability Management’s Limited Runway”

Sept. 15:          Jesse Fried (HLS), “AI Corporate Governance and Ben & Jerry’s Risk”

Sept. 22:          Max Bazerman (HBS),  “Corrupted Justice: Bias in the Expert Witness Industry”

Sept. 29:          Kobi Kastiel (Tel Aviv, visiting HLS), “The Activism Gap”

Oct. 6:             Alon Klement (Tel Aviv), “Trials that Speak for Thousands: Optimal Bellwether Selection in Multidistrict Litigation”

[Oct. 13:         Today is a “Monday”]

Oct. 20:           Cass Sunstein (HLS), “Non-User Externalities”

Oct. 27:           Joseph Harrington (Wharton), “Collusive Content in Corporate Communications”

Nov. 3:            Steven Shavell (HLS), “Settlement of Litigation May Increase or Decrease Deterrence and Social Welfare”

Nov. 10:          Lucian Bebchuk (HLS), “Three Conceptions of Capitalism”

Nov. 17:          Janet Freilich (Boston University, visiting HLS), “Who is Patent Disclosure For?”

Nov. 24:          [Students only]

Dec. 1:            Sarath Sanga (Yale University), “A Theory of Trust in Institutions”

Also, two evening sessions for the students will be held in [xxx] on Thursday, September 24 and Thursday, November 5 from 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.

The course website is available at: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/175548Select “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 2026 — Professors Christopher Lewis & Zoe Johnson King
WEDNESDAYS, 3:45-5:45 PM, Hauser 105

9/16 Dana Nelkin, UCSD

9/23 Manuel Vargas, UCSD

9/30 Ben Ewing, Queen’s University, Canada

10/7 David Enoch, Oxford

10/14 David Shoemaker, Cornell

10/21 Elinor Mason, UCSB

10/28 Sukaina Hirji, UPenn

11/4 Julia Markovitz, Cornell

11/11 Macanese Bell, Bryn Mawr College,

11/18 Lisa Tessman, Binghamton/Oslo

The course website is available at: https://canvas.harvard.edu/courses/175691. Select “Syllabus” for papers and the course schedule, or contact Brenda Bee.

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

Fall 2026 – Professors Louis Kaplow, Lucian Bebchuk, and Kathryn Spier
MONDAYS, 12:45-2:15 PM, HAUSER 105

Schedule forthcoming.

^*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/168016. Select “Syllabus” for papers and the course schedule, or contact Molly Eskridge.

This workshop examines major works in the field of legal history, important historiographical debates and critical methodologies. Students will participate in workshop presentations by leading scholars.

Spring 2027 — Professor Jill Lepore
TUESDAYS, 3:45-5:45 PM, WCC

Feb. 9: Adelaide Mandeville, Society of Fellows, USC

Feb. 16: Moira Weigel, Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Feb. 23: Mark Aidinoff, History of Science, Harvard University

Mar. 2: Sarah Igo, History, Vanderbilt University

Mar. 23: Ashton MacFarlane, History of Science, Harvard University

Mar. 30: Geraldo Con Diaz, Science and Technology Studies, UC Davis

Apr. 6: Haris Durani, Prize Fellow, Harvard University

Faculty are welcome to join the sessions.

Papers will be distributed roughly one week before each session. For additional information, please contact Nick Trefonides.

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 2027: Professors Daphna Renan and Benjamin Eidelson
MONDAYS, 3:45-5:45PM, WCC Room 

January 25: Tanner Allread (HLS)

February 1: Ashraf Ahmed (Columbia)

February 8: Steve Vladeck (Georgetown)

February 15: Randy Kennedy (HLS)

February 22: Garrett West (Yale)

March 1: Genevieve Lakier (Chicago)

March 8: Jamal Greene (Columbia)

—SPRING BREAK—

March 22: Kate Shaw (UPenn)

March 29: Laura Weinrib (HLS)

April 5: Jessica Clarke (USC)

April 12: Noah Rosenblum (NYU)

Faculty are welcome to join the sessions.

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