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Faculty
HLS Professors
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Yochai Benkler
Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
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Christine A. Desan
Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law
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Ryan D. Doerfler
Professor of Law
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Noah R. Feldman
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
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Janet E. Halley
Eli Goldston Professor of Law
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Jon D. Hanson
Alan A. Stone Professor of Law
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Kenneth W. Mack
Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law
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Ruth L. Okediji
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law
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Benjamin I. Sachs
Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
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Laura Weinrib
Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law
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Lucie E. White
Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law
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Mark Wu
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
Visiting Professors & Lecturers
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Aziza Ahmed
Daniel P.S. Paul Visiting Professor of Constitutional Law
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Mehrsa Baradaran
Robert Braucher Visiting Professor of Law
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Premal Dharia
Lecturer on Law
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Sanjay Jolly
Lecturer on Law
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Maroussia Levesque
Lecturer on Law
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Anne Orford
Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization
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Michael J. Sandel
Harvard University Affiliated Professor
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Mengyi Wang
Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
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Alicia Yamin
Lecturer on Law
Research Programs and Centers
Related Courses
| Course | Term | Instructor(s) |
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| Advanced Constitutional Law | Fall 2025 Course | Noah Feldman |
| American Democracy | Spring 2026 Course | John Stauffer, Roberto Mangabeira Unger |
| American Legal Theory | Spring 2026 Course | William Fisher |
| Beyond “Economic Growth”: Practice, Theory, and Potential | Spring 2026 Seminar | Lucie White |
| Climate Change and the Politics of International Law | Spring 2026 Course | Anne Orford |
| Comparative Corporate Governance and Finance | Fall 2025 Course | Mark Roe |
| Comparative Law: Why Law? The Experience of China | Spring 2026 Course | William Alford |
| Constitutional Law: First Amendment | Fall 2025 Course | Noah Feldman |
| Constitutional Law: Money and the Making of American Capitalism | Spring 2026 Course | Christine Desan |
| Corporations | Spring 2026 Course | Jon Hanson |