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Area of Interest Comparative Law

Comparative legal inquiry permeates the Harvard curriculum, ranging from courses focused on other nations to the inclusion of comparative issues in courses on U.S. law to a robust co-curricular program. Its goals include acquainting students with the approaches that other societies take toward the resolution of challenging societal issues and facilitating understanding of the assumptions and choices that inform law in the United States.

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Profiles

Mary Ann Glendon delivers the Scalia Lecture.

Who needs foreign law?

The late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia ’60 believed America had much to learn from laws adopted by nations abroad, according to Harvard Law School…

Faculty

HLS Professors

Visiting Professors & Lecturers

Research Programs and Centers

Animal Law & Policy Program

Center on the Legal Profession

East Asian Legal Studies Program

Foundations of Private Law

Human Rights Program

John M. Olin Center: Law, Economics and Business

Julis-Rabinowitz Program on Jewish and Israeli Law

Program in Islamic Law

Program on International Law and Armed Conflict

Program on Law and Society in the Muslim World

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