From ensuring that food and drugs are safe, to protecting the environment from polluters, to setting workplace safety standards and administering programs like Medicare, decisions and actions by federal and state agencies shape our lives. Harvard Law students enjoy myriad opportunities to learn from leading scholars about the administrative state and the legal framework that governs it.
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Faculty
HLS Professors
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![Sharon Block headshot]()
Sharon Block
Professor of Practice
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![Emily M. Broad Leib headshot]()
Emily M. Broad Leib
Clinical Professor of Law
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![John C. Coates headshot]()
John C. Coates
John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics
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![Ryan D. Doerfler headshot]()
Ryan D. Doerfler
Professor of Law
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![Benjamin Eidelson headshot]()
Benjamin Eidelson
Professor of Law
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![Jody Freeman headshot]()
Jody Freeman
Archibald Cox Professor of Law
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![Jacob Gersen headshot]()
Jacob Gersen
Sidley Austin Professor of Law
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![Richard J. Lazarus headshot]()
Richard J. Lazarus
Charles Stebbins Fairchild Professor of Law
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![John F. Manning headshot]()
John F. Manning
Interim Provost
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![Daniel Nagin headshot]()
Daniel Nagin
Clinical Professor of Law
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![Todd D. Rakoff headshot]()
Todd D. Rakoff
Byrne Professor of Administrative Law
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![Daphna Renan headshot]()
Daphna Renan
Peter B. Munroe and Mary J. Munroe Professor of Law
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![Steven M. Shavell headshot]()
Steven M. Shavell
Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics
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![Nicholas Stephanopoulos headshot]()
Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
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![Matthew Stephenson headshot]()
Matthew Stephenson
Henry L. Shattuck Professor of Law
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![Cass R. Sunstein headshot]()
Cass R. Sunstein
Robert Walmsley University Professor
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![Daniel Tarullo headshot]()
Daniel Tarullo
Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice
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![Adrian Vermeule headshot]()
Adrian Vermeule
Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law
Visiting Professors & Lecturers
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![Yutian An headshot]()
Yutian An
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
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![David J. Barron headshot]()
David J. Barron
Louis D. Brandeis Visiting Professor of Law
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![Ben Berwick headshot]()
Ben Berwick
Lecturer on Law
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![John C. Cratsley headshot]()
John C. Cratsley
Lecturer on Law
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![Justin Florence headshot]()
Justin Florence
Lecturer on Law
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![Medha Gargeya headshot]()
Medha Gargeya
Lecturer on Law
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![Thomas Griffith headshot]()
Thomas Griffith
Lecturer on Law
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![Anita Krishnakumar headshot]()
Anita Krishnakumar
Louis A. Horvitz Visiting Professor of Law
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![Rachel Mathews headshot]()
Rachel Mathews
Lecturer on Law
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![Julie McCormack headshot]()
Julie McCormack
Lecturer on Law
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![Andrew Mergen headshot]()
Andrew Mergen
Emmett Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law in Environmental Law
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![Dana Montalto headshot]()
Dana Montalto
Lecturer on Law
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![Deborah Paul headshot]()
Deborah Paul
Lecturer on Law
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![Hannah Perls headshot]()
Hannah Perls
Lecturer on Law
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![Ari Peskoe headshot]()
Ari Peskoe
Lecturer on Law
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![Zachary Price headshot]()
Zachary Price
Bruce Bromley Visiting Professor of Law
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![Alan Raul headshot]()
Alan Raul
Lecturer on Law
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![David Silberman headshot]()
David Silberman
Lecturer on Law
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![Patrice Simms headshot]()
Patrice Simms
Visiting Professor of Law
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![Alex Walker headshot]()
Alex Walker
Lecturer on Law
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![Bill Watson headshot]()
Bill Watson
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
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![David Zimmer headshot]()
David Zimmer
Lecturer on Law
Clinics
Crimmigration Clinic
Education Law Clinic / Trauma & Learning Policy Initiative
Emmett Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
Food Law and Policy Clinic
Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinic
Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic
Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project Clinic
Sports Law Clinic
Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic
Research Programs and Centers
Related Courses
| Course | Term | Instructor(s) |
|---|---|---|
| Administrative Law | Fall 2024 Course | Cass Sunstein |
| Administrative Law | Spring 2025 Course | Adrian Vermeule |
| Administrative Law | Spring 2025 Course | Sharon Block |
| Advanced Issues in Administrative Law and Theory | Spring 2025 Seminar | Adrian Vermeule |
| Advertising Law | Spring 2025 Course | Rebecca Tushnet |
| Animal Law | Spring 2025 Course | Kristen Stilt |
| Art of Social Change | Spring 2025 Course | Crisanne Hazen, Michael Gregory |
| Behavioral Economics, Law and Public Policy | Spring 2025 Seminar | Cass Sunstein |
| Classical Liberalism and the Rule of Law | Spring 2025 Seminar | Raymond M. Kethledge |
| Consumer Technologies, Regulations, and Markets | Fall 2024 Reading Group | Rory Van Loo |