Jurisprudence and Legal Theory - Harvard Law School

Harvard Law students learn many different ideas about and competing explanations of the concept of law, as taught by some of America’s most accomplished legal philosophers and theorists in areas such as natural law, legal positivism, legal realism, critical legal studies, and much more.

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Faculty

HLS Professors

Scott Brewer

Professor of Law
Christine A. Desan

Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law
Ryan D. Doerfler

Professor of Law
Benjamin Eidelson

Professor of Law
Richard H. Fallon

Story Professor of Law
Noah R. Feldman

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
Charles Fried

Beneficial Professor of Law
Gerald E. Frug

Louis D. Brandeis Professor of Law, Emeritus
Jeannie Suk Gersen

John H. Watson, Jr. Professor of Law
John Goldberg

Interim Dean
Janet E. Halley

Eli Goldston Professor of Law
Jon D. Hanson

Alan A. Stone Professor of Law
Alan Jenkins

Professor of Practice
David W. Kennedy

Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law
Duncan M. Kennedy

Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, Emeritus
Christopher Lewis

Assistant Professor of Law
Anna Lvovsky

Professor of Law
Kenneth W. Mack

Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law
Frank I. Michelman

Robert Walmsley University Professor, Emeritus
Stephen Sachs

Antonin Scalia Professor of Law
Lewis D. Sargentich

Professor of Law
Steven M. Shavell

Samuel R. Rosenthal Professor of Law and Economics
Joseph W. Singer

Bussey Professor of Law
Holger Spamann

Lawrence R. Grove Professor of Law
Kristen A. Stilt

Professor of Law
Roberto Tallarita

Assistant Professor of Law
Laurence H. Tribe

Carl M. Loeb University Professor, Emeritus
Adrian Vermeule

Ralph S. Tyler, Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law
Lucie E. White

Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law

Visiting Professors & Lecturers

Yas Banifatemi

Lecturer on Law
Sara Budish

Lecturer on Law
Richard W. Clary

Lecturer on Law
Daniel R. Coquillette

Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History
Nancy Gertner

Senior Lecturer on Law
Havva Guney-Ruebenacker

Lecturer on Law
Christine Hayes

Caroline Zelaznik Gruss and Joseph S. Gruss Visiting Professor in Talmudic Civil Law
Martti Koskenniemi

William D. Zabel ‘61 Visiting Professor in Human Rights
Catharine A. MacKinnon

James Barr Ames Visiting Professor of Law
Anne Orford

Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization
Saul Ramirez

Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
Adam Sandel

Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
Michael J. Sandel

Harvard University Affiliated Professor
Hassaan Shahawy

Lecturer on Law
Bill Watson

Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
Albert Yoon

George Francis Brownell Visiting Professor of Law

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