As updates are made to the AY2024-2025 course catalog, they will be posted here.
| 1/3/2025 | Lists of classes with open seats available for: LLMs and Upper-level JDs. |
| 12/17/2024 | Ms. Elizabeth Prelogar and Mr. Michael Dreeben will offer the seminar, Changing Paradigms in the Supreme Court, in Spring 2025. Enrollment in this seminar is by permission of instructors. Interested students should send a resume and a brief statement describing their interest in the seminar to Laura Zeng (lzeng@law.harvard.edu) by January 6th, 2025. |
| 12/3/2024 | Professors Michael Gregory and Michael Rebell will offer the seminar, Constructing a Contemporary State Constitutional Theory for Public Education, in Spring 2025. |
| 12/2/2024 | Lists of classes with open seats available for: LLMs, Upper-level JDs, 1Ls. |
| 11/25/2024 | Provost John Manning and Justice Stephen Breyer will offer the reading group, Statutory Interpretation in a Constitutional Democracy, in Spring 2025. Instructor permission is required for enrollment. Application deadline is December 12, 2024. |
| 11/20/2024 | Professors Roberto Unger and John Stauffer Spring 2025 course, American Democracy, will meet on Fridays from 1:00pm to 3:00pm. |
| 11/12/2024 | An updated list of Winter and Spring classes with open seats and no waitlist for upper level JD students is available here. |
| 11/6/2024 | Professor David Wilkins and Mr. Mitchell Zuklie will offer the reading group, Large Law Firms in the Era of ESG, ChatGPT, and GenZ, in Spring 2025. |
| 11/6/2024 | Professor Matthew Stephenson’s Spring 2025 seminar, Global Anticorruption Lab, has been cancelled. |
| 11/01/2024 | An updated list of Winter and Spring classes with open seats and no waitlist for upper level JD students is available here. |
| 10/31/2024 | The Spring 2025 seminar, Poverty Law Workshop, has been cancelled. |
| 10/31/2024 | A list of Winter and Spring classes with open seats and no waitlist for upper level JD students is available here. |
| 10/28/2024 | Professor William Fisher will offer the seminar, Teaching Copyright, in Spring 2025. |
| 10/24/2024 | Ms. Alicia Yamin’s reading group, Health Rights in Latin America: Defending Dignity or Judicializing Politics?, is no longer being offered. Ms. Alicia Yamin will now offer the reading group, Transformative Constitutionalism in Latin America: Focus on Health Rights, in Spring 2025. |
| 10/24/2024 | Ms. Jennifer Rosenbaum’s course, International Labor Migration, will meet in the mornings from 10:00am to 12:15pm in Winter 2025. |
| 10/24/2024 | Mr. Sam Garcia will offer the reading group, Applying Legal Skills to VC Business Diligence, in Spring 2025. |
| 10/24/2024 | Ms. Amy Kao will offer the seminar, The In-House Counselor, in Spring 2025. |
| 10/23/2024 | Professor Avlana Eisenberg will offer the course, Prison Law and Policy, in Spring 2025. Note the time and credit changes to this course. |
| 10/23/2024 | Professor Oren Nimni’s Spring 2025 course, Prison Law, has been cancelled. |
| 10/23/2024 | Ms. Deborah Lolai will offer the course, LGBTQ Criminalization and Mass Incarceration, in Spring 2025. |
| 10/21/2024 | Mr. Vince Chhabria will offer the course, Litigation and Public Policy, in Spring 2025. |
| 10/18/2024 | Professor Matthew Stephenson’s Spring 2025 seminar, Global Anticorruption Lab, will now meet on Thursdays from 6:00 – 8:00pm. His Spring 2025 seminar, Shakespeare and Law, will now meet on Wednesdays from 6:00 – 8:00 pm. |
| 10/17/2024 | Professor David Malan will offer the course, CS50 (and AI) for Lawyers, in Winter 2025. |
| 10/16/2024 | Seats are available for 2Ls in Professor Jamie Wacks’ two Spring Legal Profession courses: Legal Profession and Legal Profession: Public Interest Lawyering. |
| 10/4/2024 | Professor Jon Hanson will offer the seminar, Critical Corporate Theory Lab, in Spring 2025. |
| 10/1/2024 | Ms. Nana Sarian and Ms. Rebecca Harris will offer the course, Fashion Law Lab, in Winter 2025. |
| 9/25/2024 | Professor Jay Michaelson will offer a course, Psychedelics, Law, and Religion, and a seminar, Antinomianism: Revolts Against Law in Judaism, Christianity, and American Political Culture, in Spring 2025. |
| 9/24/2024 | Professor Lucie White will offer the course, Beyond Economic Growth Workshop: Practice, Theory, and Potential, in Spring 2025. |
| 9/24/2024 | Mr. Mitchell Presser will offer the course, Drafting and Negotiating Complex Cross-Border M&A Transactions, in Spring 2025. |
| 9/11/2024 | Mr. James Tierney will offer the reading group, Guns, Abortion and Climate Change – What is next for State AGs?, in Spring 2025. |
| 9/11/2024 | Mr. David Friedman will offer the reading group, Leadership & Management Skills for Lawyers, in Spring 2025. |
| 9/9/2024 | Professor Jacob Gersen’s Spring 2025 course, Remedies, will meet on Thursdays and Fridays from 10:30am to 12:00pm. |
| 9/6/2024 | Seats for 2Ls are now available in two Fall Legal Profession courses with Professor Jamie Wacks and Professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu. |
| 9/6/2024 | Professor Rachel Viscomi and Ms. Morgan Franklin will offer the course, Facilitation Workshop: Leading Challenging Conversations in Business, Politics, and the Community, in Spring 2025. |
| 9/6/2024 | A list of Fall classes with open seats and no waitlist is available for LLMs, Transfer students, and Upper level JDs. |
| 8/29/2024 | A list of Fall classes with open seats and no waitlist is available for LLMs, Transfer students, and Upper level JDs. Also available: Classes that have later start dates, and classes with earlier end dates. |
| 8/28/2024 | Professor Elizabeth Kamali’s fall course, Roman Law, has been cancelled. |
| 8/23/2024 | Mr. Peter Brann will offer the course, The Role of the State Attorney General, in Spring 2025. |
| 8/22/2024 | Professor Michael Gregory’s fall clinic, Education Law Clinic: Legislative & Administrative Lawyering, and his seminar, Systemic Advocacy for Safe and Supportive Schools, has been cancelled. |
| 8/21/2024 | Professor Rachel Viscomi will offer the reading group, Building Community: Cultivating Connection Through Dialogue, in Fall 2024. |
| 8/21/2024 | Professor David King will offer the course, The U.S. Congress and Law Making, in Spring 2025. This course is cross-listed with HKS and will meet on the HKS campus. |
| 8/21/2024 | Ms. Jacqueline Bhabha will offer the course, Migration, Refugees, and Human Rights, in Fall 2024. This course is cross-listed with HKS and will meet on the HKS campus. |
| 8/19/2024 | A list of Fall classes with open seats and no waitlist is available for Upper-level JDs and Transfer students. |
| 8/14/2024 | Ms. Sara Budish will offer the reading group, Contemporary Dilemmas in Dispute Resolution, in Spring 2025. |
| 8/12/2024 | Professor Kristen Stilt will offer the reading group, Outlaw Ocean, in Spring 2025. |
| 8/8/2024 | Professor Kathryn Spier will offer the course, Graduate Student Workshop in Contracts and Organizations, in Fall 2024 and Spring 2025. |
| 8/7/2024 | Mr. Daniel Levine-Spound will offer the reading group, Prosecuting Aggression, in Spring 2025. |
| 8/7/2024 | Ms. Aminta Ossom will offer the reading group, Contemporary Challenges in International Human Rights, in Spring 2025. |
| 8/1/2024 | Ms. Hannah Perls will offer the reading group, Environmental Disasters and Displacement in the US, in Spring 2025. |
| 7/31/2024 | A list of Fall classes with open JD seats and no waitlist is available here. |
| 7/18/2024 | Professor Annette Gordon-Reed and Professor Peter Onuf’s Spring 2025 seminar, Constitutions, Law, and Empire, has been cancelled. |
| 7/16/2024 | Professor Janet Halley’s Spring 2025 seminar, Governance Feminism: Sexual and Gender-Based Violence, has been cancelled. |
| 7/16/2024 | Professor Susan Crawford’s Fall 2024 Writing Group, Climate Adaptation, and her Spring 2025 seminar, The Law of Climate Adaptation, have been cancelled. |
| 7/15/2024 | Mr. Michael Pressman will offer the Reading Group, Theories of Torts Remedies, in Spring 2025. |
| 7/9/2024 | Professor Jonathan Zittrain, Mr. Jordi Weinstock, and Mr. Joshua Joseph will offer the course, Agentic Artificial Intelligence and the Law, in Spring 2025. |
| 7/9/2024 | Mr. Lobsang Sangay will offer the reading group, Tibet and China, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/28/2024 | Professor Michael McCann will offer both Legal Research, Writing and Analysis I and Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II in Fall 2024. |
| 6/27/2024 | Ms. Alexandra McKinney will offer two sections of Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II in Fall 2024: Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II A and Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II B. |
| 6/27/2024 | Judge David Barron, Professor Archon Fung, and Ms. Sarah Wald’s Fall 2024 seminar, Public Problems: Advice, Strategy, and Analysis, will meet on Mondays from 3:45-5:45pm. |
| 6/25/2024 | Ms. Jennifer Rosenbaum will offer the course, International Labor Migration, in Winter 2025. |
| 6/24/2024 | Professor Andrew Selbst will offer the reading group, Technology and Justice, in Fall 2024. For upper-level JD students, this offering is available to add in Helios now. For incoming LLM and transfer students, this offering will be included in registration. |
| 6/24/2024 | Ms. Antonia Apps will offer the course, White Collar Criminal Law and Procedure, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/24/2024 | Professor Jonathan Zittrain’s Spring 2025 course, Case Studies in Public and Private Policy Challenges of Artificial Intelligence, has been cancelled. |
| 6/21/2024 | Mr. Ian Gershengorn will offer the seminar, The Roberts Court: Theory and Practice, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/21/2024 | Mr. David Sorkin and Mr. Alan Klein will offer the course, Transactional Law Workshop – Mergers and Acquisitions, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/21/2024 | Ms. Rebecca Richman Cohen will offer the seminar, The Carceral Lens: Exploring Criminal (In)justice through Film, in Fall 2024. She will also offer the reading group, Human Rights and Humanitarianism through the Lens of Documentary Film, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/12/2024 | Ms. Elizabeth McClintock will offer the course, Processes of International Negotiations, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/11/2024 | Ms. Nicole Provo will offer the course, Civil Rights and the Armed Professions/the US Defense Industry, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/6/2024 | Professor Todd Rakoff will offer the seminar, Statutes and Justice, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/5/2024 | Ms. Rachel Landauer will offer the reading group, Corporate Fraud, Abuse, and Other Health Care Regulatory Schemes, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/5/2024 | Mr. Oren Nimni will offer the course, Prison Law, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/3/2024 | Judge Joseph Greenaway will offer the reading group, Great Cases of the Supreme Court, in Spring 2025. |
| 6/3/2024 | Professor Anthea Roberts’ Fall 2024 course, International Economic Law: Current Crises and Future Possibilities, has been cancelled. |
| 5/31/2024 | Professors Louis Kaplow, Lucian Bebchuk, and Kathryn Spier’s Fall 2024 seminar, Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations, has been adjusted to a two-credit offering. The full-year and Spring 2025 only sections have been cancelled. |
| 5/31/2024 | Professor Melissa Jacoby will offer the reading group, Commercial Law and Inequality, in Fall 2024. |
| 5/30/2024 | Judge David Barron and Professor Benjamin Eidelson will offer the reading group, The Constitution and the Idea of Progress, in Spring 2025. |
| 5/30/204 | Professor Jesse Fried will offer the seminar, New Horizons in the Middle East, in Fall 2024. |
| 5/13/2024 | Courses with open seats and no waitlist for Fall 2024 |
| 5/6/2024 | Judge Patti Saris will offer the seminar, Facts and Lies, in Fall 2024. This offering is available to add in Helios now. |
| 5/2/2024 | Ms. Diane Rosenfeld will offer the courses, Gender Violence, Law, and Social Justice, Title IX: Sports, Sex and Equality on Campus, and the reading groups, Bonobo Sisterhood, and Feminist Utopias, in Spring 2025. |
| 4/30/2024 | Mr. John Finley will offer the reading group, Private Equity Public Policy Issues, in Fall 2024. This offering is available to add in Helios now. |
| 4/23/2024 | Professor Michael Gregory and Ms. Crisanne Hazen will offer the seminar, Youth Advocacy & Policy Seminar, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/19/2024 | Ms. Betsy Miller’s Fall 2024 course, Polarities: Harnessing the Power of Opposites to Lead Effectively, will satisfy the Negotiation/Leadership requirement. |
| 4/18/2024 | Fall 2024 Electives with open seats download |
| 4/18/2024 | List of offerings with open JD seats and no waitlist is available here. |
| 4/17/2024 | Both Professor Guhan Subramanian’s Fall 2024 and Spring 2025 sections of Deals will satisfy the Negotiation/Leadership requirement. |
| 4/12/2024 | Professor David Lopez will offer the seminar, Law and the Legal System through the Lens of Latinx/a/o Communities, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/12/2024 | Professor Vlad Perju will offer the course, Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/12/2024 | Ms. Julie McCormack will offer the seminar, Poverty Law Workshop: Leveraging the Safety Net to Address Homelessness & Advance Equity, in Spring 2025. |
| 4/12/2024 | Ms. Betsy Miller will offer the course, Polarities: Harnessing the Power of Opposites to Lead Effectively, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/12/2024 | Ms. Stephanie Robinson will offer the course, Race & The Law: America’s Ongoing Struggle with Changing Conceptions of Race, in Fall 2024 on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:30am to 12:00pm. |
| 4/11/2024 | Professor Michael Klarman will offer the course, Constitutional History I: From the Founding to the Civil War, in Spring 2025. |
| 4/8/2024 | Professor Urs Gasser will offer the course, International AI Law and Governance, in Winter 2025. |
| 4/8/2024 | Professor Shaun Ossei-Owusu will offer a section of Legal Profession in Fall 2024. |
| 4/8/2024 | Professor Michele DeStefano’s Winter 2025 Legal Profession course will meet over the first two weeks of the winter term from 9am to 11:45am. |
| 4/8/2024 | Mr. Mark Popofsky will offer the seminar, Antitrust and Intellectual Property, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/8/2024 | Mr. Vladimir Bosiljevac will offer the course, Investments Workshop: Public and Private Equity, in Spring 2025. |
| 4/8/2024 | Judge Caitlin Halligan and Judge Michael Garcia will offer the reading group, State Constitutionalism, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/8/2024 | Professor Jeannie Suk Gersen will offer the course, Art Law Litigation, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/5/2024 | Ms. Stephanie Robinson will offer two seminars, Law & Democracy: The Incomplete Experiment and Media Images & The Law: Contesting Media in the Modern Era, in Spring 2025, along with the course, Race & The Law: America’s Ongoing Struggle with Changing Conceptions of Race, in Fall 2024 (fall schedule is forthcoming). |
| 4/5/2024 | Professor Aziza Ahmed will offer the course, Reproductive Rights and Justice, and the seminar, Race, Racism, and the Law, in Spring 2025. |
| 4/5/2024 | Judge David Barron, Professor Archon Fung, and Ms. Sarah Wald will offer the seminar, Public Problems: Advice, Strategy, and Analysis, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/5/2024 | Professor Tyler Giannini will offer the seminar, Climate Change and Human Rights: Legal Innovations and Social Entrepreneurship in Action, in Spring 2025. |
| 4/3/2024 | Professor Molly Brady will offer the course, State and Local Government Law, in Spring 2025. |
| 4/2/2024 | Mr. Mark Gordon and Ms. Meng Lu will offer the course, Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics, in Fall 2024. |
| 4/2/2024 | Professor Richard Banks will offer the course, Race, Meritocracy, and Justice on Campus: The Crisis of Elite Higher Education, in Winter 2025. |
| 4/2/2024 | The Winter 2025 Negotiation Workshop is now a 3 credit offering taking place in just the winter term. |
| 4/1/2024 | Professor Anne Orford will offer the course, Climate Change and the Politics of International Law, in Spring 2025. |
| 3/29/2024 | Professor Martha Minow and Ms. Maroussia Levesque will offer the seminar, Comparative AI Governance, in Spring 2025. |
| 3/29/2024 | Ms. Havva Guney-Ruebenacker will offer the reading group, Slavery and Abolition in Islamic and Western Legal Thought, in Spring 2025. |
| 3/29/2024 | Professor Bala Dharan will offer the courses, Introduction to Accounting and Introduction to Finance Concepts 4-Day Section, in Fall 2024. And will offer the courses, Introduction to Accounting 3-Week Section and Business Valuation and Analysis, in Spring 2025. |
| 3/27/2024 | Professor Michele DeStefano will offer a section of Legal Profession in Winter 2025. Scheduling details are forthcoming. |
| 3/27/2024 | Professor Michael Sandel will offer the seminar, Ethics, Economics and the Law, in Fall 2024. |
| 3/27/2024 | Professor Allen Ferrell will offer the following seminars, The Past and Future of the Music Business and Law and Finance of Venture Capital and Start-ups, in Fall 2024. |
| 3/27/2024 | Judge Thomas Griffith’s Winter 2025 course, The Role of the Article III Judge, will meet Mondays through Fridays from 1:00-3:15pm. |
| 3/27/2024 | Professor William Alford’s Fall 2024 seminar, Engaging China, will meet on Mondays from 6-8pm. |
| 3/26/2024 | Ms. Medha Gargeya and Mr. Joshua Gardner will offer the course, Legal Profession: Government Lawyering, in Spring 2025. |
| 3/25/2024 | Professor Benjamin Eidelson will offer the seminar, Topics in Law and Philosophy, in Fall 2024. |
| 3/25/2024 | Professor Roberto Tallarita’s seminar, Law, Business, and the Public Good, will now be offered in Spring 2025. |
| 3/25/2024 | Professors Roberto Unger and John Stauffer’s course, American Democracy, will now meet on Wednesdays from 1-3pm in Spring 2025. Professor Roberto Unger’s course, Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Now, will now meet on Tuesdays from 1-3pm in Spring 2025. |
| 3/25/2024 | Professor Rory Van Loo will offer the reading group, Consumer Technologies, Regulations, and Markets, in Fall 2024. |
| 3/25/2024 | Professor Catharine MacKinnon will offer the course, Sex Equality, and the seminar, Advanced Problems in Sex Equality, in Fall 2024. |