Contracts regulate transactions ranging from cell phone plans to corporate mergers. They are the main means by which people and firms do business with each other and more generally enable us to use agreements to define rights and obligations that we owe to one another. At Harvard Law School, students have the opportunity to become expert in the legal rules and principles that determine how contracts are formed, interpreted and enforced, as well as larger questions of the proper aims and role of contract law in our legal system.
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Faculty
HLS Professors
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Scott Brewer
Professor of Law
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John C. Coates
John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics
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Einer R. Elhauge
Carroll and Milton Petrie Professor of Law
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Jared Ellias
Scott C. Collins Professor of Law
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Duncan M. Kennedy
Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus
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Randall L. Kennedy
Michael R. Klein Professor of Law
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Ruth L. Okediji
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law
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Mariana Pargendler
Beneficial Professor of Law
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Todd D. Rakoff
Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Emeritus
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Steven M. Shavell
Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics
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Roberto Tallarita
Assistant Professor of Law
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Roberto Mangabeira Unger
Roscoe Pound Professor of Law
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Elizabeth Warren
Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Emerita
Visiting Professors & Lecturers
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Siobhan Barco
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
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Antoinette Coakley
Lecturer on Law
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Havva Guney-Ruebenacker
Lecturer on Law
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Rebecca Harris
Lecturer on Law
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Oliver Hart
Harvard University Affiliated Professor
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Noel Roycroft
Lecturer on Law
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Nana Sarian
Lecturer on Law
Clinics
Research Programs and Centers
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