Course Catalog

Armed Conflict and Civilian Protection

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• T 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Bonnie Docherty, Daniel Levine-Spound

Beyond “Economic Growth”: Practice, Theory, and Potential

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• T 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Lucie White

Business and Human Rights

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• M 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Tyler Giannini

Communication, Law and Social Justice

Fall 2025 Course

4 credit(s)

• Th, F 10:15am – 12:15pm

Alan Jenkins

Comparative Citizenship and Migration Law

Spring 2026 Course

3 credit(s)

• W, Th 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Ayelet Shachar

Comparative Law: Why Law? The Experience of China

Spring 2026 Course

4 credit(s)

• M, W 10:15am – 12:15pm

William Alford

Constitutional Law: First Amendment

Fall 2025 Course

4 credit(s)

• M, T 10:15am – 12:15pm

Richard Parker

Constitutionalism at the Margins: Human Rights in Contested Spaces

Fall 2025 Course

3 credit(s)

• M, T 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Alfredo Gutierrez Ortiz Mena

Consumer Protection Clinic

Spring 2026 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Alexa Rosenbloom

Cyberlaw Clinic

Spring 2026 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Christopher Bavitz

Cyberlaw Clinic

Fall 2025 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Christopher Bavitz

Cyberlaw Clinic Seminar

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• W 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Christopher Bavitz, Mason Kortz, Wendy Chu

Cyberlaw Clinic Seminar

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• W 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Christopher Bavitz, Mason Kortz, Wendy Chu

Debate on Ratification of the Constitution 1787-1788

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• T 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Richard Parker

Disability, Capacity, and Rights

Fall 2025 Reading Group

1 credit(s)

• W 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Matthew Smith

Disability, Human Rights, and Development

Spring 2026 Course

2 credit(s)

• M 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Michael Ashley Stein

Engaging China

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• M, T 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Steven Wang, William Alford

Fashion Law Lab

Winter 2026 Course

3 credit(s)

• M, T, W, Th, F 1:00pm – 4:15pm

Nana Sarian, Rebecca Harris

Food Law and Policy Clinic

Spring 2026 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Emily Broad Leib

Food Law and Policy Clinic

Fall 2025 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Emily Broad Leib

Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic

Fall 2025 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Sabrineh Ardalan

Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic

Spring 2026 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Sabrineh Ardalan

Human Rights and Humanitarianism through the Lens of Documentary Film

Spring 2026 Reading Group

1 credit(s)

• Th 3:45pm – 6:45pm

Rebecca Richman Cohen

Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic

Fall 2025 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Tyler Giannini

Human Rights Entrepreneurs Clinic

Spring 2026 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Tyler Giannini

Human Rights in the UN Treaty Bodies

Spring 2026 Course

1 credit(s)

• W 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Gerald Neuman

Human Rights Lawyering in Action: Skills, Strategies, and Challenges

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• M 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Beatrice Lindstrom, Susan Farbstein

Human Rights Lawyering in Action: Skills, Strategies, and Challenges

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• T 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Aminta Ossom, Anna Crowe

Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• M 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Tyler Giannini

Immigration and Refugee Advocacy

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• W 10:15am – 12:15pm

Cindy Zapata, Sabrineh Ardalan

Immigration and Refugee Advocacy

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• Th 10:15am – 12:15pm

Cindy Zapata, Sabrineh Ardalan

International Human Rights

Spring 2026 Course

3 credit(s)

• M, T 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Ioannis Kalpouzos

International Human Rights Clinic

Spring 2026 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Susan Farbstein

International Human Rights Clinic

Fall 2025 Clinic

3, 4, or 5 credit(s)

Susan Farbstein

International Law and Global South Statecraft

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• W 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Naz Modirzadeh

Law and Inequality Workshop

Spring 2026 Course

3 credit(s)

• W, Th 1:30pm – 3:00pm

Lucie White

Law and Neuroscience

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• T 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Nancy Gertner

Mass Incarceration and Sentencing Law

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• W 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Nancy Gertner

New Technologies and the Law of War

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• M 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Ioannis Kalpouzos

Public International Law

Fall 2025 Course

4 credit(s)

• Th, F 10:15am – 12:15pm

Naz Modirzadeh

Public International Law

Spring 2026 Course

4 credit(s)

• T, W 10:15am – 12:15pm

Idriss Fofana

Race and the Law

Spring 2026 Course

3 credit(s)

• Th, F 10:30am – 12:00pm

Alan Jenkins

Regional Human Rights Law: The Inter-American Perspective

Spring 2026 Reading Group

1 credit(s)

• T 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Victor Madrigal-Borloz

Sex Equality

Fall 2025 Course

3 credit(s)

• M, T, W 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Catharine MacKinnon

Terrorism and International Law

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• W 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Naz Modirzadeh

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates: In the Turbulence of History

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• M 3:45pm – 5:45pm

Richard Parker

The Security Council

Spring 2026 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• F 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Naz Modirzadeh

Transitional Justice: Dispute Systems Design and Durable Peace

Fall 2025 Seminar

2 credit(s)

• T 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Lisa Dicker

Use of Force

Spring 2026 Course

4 credit(s)

• W, Th 1:30pm – 3:30pm

Gabriella Blum

Writing Group: Business, Climate Change, and Human Rights

Fall 2025 - Spring 2026 Course

1 credit(s)

• M 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Tyler Giannini