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2021-2022 Course and Schedule Updates

As updates are made to the AY2021-2022 course catalog, they will be posted here.

Date 2021-2022 Course & Schedule Updates
1/7/2022 SPRING 2022 courses with open seats and no waitlist is available with a tab for each cohort (i.e., 1L UL Electives, LLM UL Electives, JD2L Transfer Multisection, JDUPPER Electives) Spring 2022 Open Seats.
12/27/2021 WINTER 2022 courses with open seats and no waitlist is available WINTER 2022 Open Seats.
12/27/2021 SPRING 2022 courses with open seats and no waitlist is available with a tab for each cohort (i.e., 1L UL Electives, LLM UL Electives, JD2L Transfer Multisection, JDUPPER Electives) SPRING 2022 Open Seats.
12/18/2021 Spring courses with open seats and no waitlist are available for LLMs, 1Ls, and upper-level JDs.
12/18/2021 Winter courses with open seats and no waitlist are available for LLMs and upper-level JDs.
12/7/2021 Professor Cass Sunstein will offer the seminar, Behavioral Economics, Law and Public Policy, in Spring 2022.
12/7/2021 Professor Cass Sunstein will co-teach the Spring 2022 seminar, Advanced Issues in Administrative Law and Theory, with Professor Adrian Vermeule.
11/30/2021 Offerings with open seats and no waitlist available for upper-level JDs, LLMs and 1Ls.
11/22/2021 Offerings with open seats and no waitlist available for upper-level JDs, LLMs and 1Ls.
11/9/2021 Professor Jon Hanson will offer the seminar, Critical Corporate Theory Lab, in Spring 2022.
11/9/2021 Professor L.O. Natt Gantt will offer the course, Legal Profession, in Spring 2022.
11/5/2021 Mr. Ko-Yung Tung will offer a second section of the reading group, Sustainable Development and International Investment Arbitration: Issues, Policies and Challenges, in Spring 2022.
11/3/2021 Professor Matthew Stephenson’s Spring 2022 course, Global Anticorruption Lab, will meet Mondays from 6:45pm to 8:45pm.
11/3/2021 Professor Henry Smith’s Spring 2022 course, Equity, will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:45pm to 3:15pm.
11/2/2021 Dr. Menaka Guruswamy’s Spring 2022 course, Pathways and Pitfalls: Role of International Human Rights and Constitutional Law in Achieving LGBT Equality, has been cancelled.
11/2/2021 Professor Katherine Meyer’ Spring 2022 Animal Law & Policy Clinical Seminar will meet on Wednesdays from 10:30am to 12:30pm.
10/28/2021 Professor Daniel Boyarin’s Spring 2022 course, From Torah to Mitzvos, has been cancelled.  Professor Boyarin will instead offer a new course, Advanced Analysis of the Sugya.
10/20/2021 Mr. David Lopez will offer the seminar, Law and the Legal System through the Lens of Latinx/a/o Communities, in Spring 2022.
10/18/2021 Mr. Vladimir Bosiljevac Spring 2022 courses, Valuing and Modeling M&A and LBOs and Investments Workshop: Public and Private Equity, have been cancelled.
10/14/2021 Mr. Mark Gordon’s course, Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics, will meet from 1:00pm to 4:30pm in Winter 2022.
10/7/2021 Ms. Nana Sarian and Ms. Rebecca Harris will offer the course, Fashion Law Lab, in Winter 2022.
10/5/2021 Professor Jonathan Zittrain’s Spring 2022 course, Governing Digital Technology, has been cancelled.
10/4/2021 Professor Christine Desan’s Spring 2022 course, Legal Architecture of Globalization: Money, Debt, and Development, will meet on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 1:45pm to 3:45pm.
9/29/2021 Ms. Diane Rosenfeld will offer the course, Gender Violence Advanced Legal Policy and Research Seminar, in Spring 2022.
9/29/2021 Mr. Victor Madrigal-Borloz will offer the reading group, Regional Human Rights Law: The Inter-American Perspective, in Spring 2022.
9/29/2021 Ms. Nina Perales and Mr. Thomas Saenz will offer the spring reading group, Current Topics in Latino Civil Rights, on Mondays and Tuesdays from 10:30am to 12:30pm.
9/29/2021 Mr. Lael Weinberger will offer the reading group, Religious Institutions and the Religion Clauses, in Spring 2022.
9/28/2021 Mr. Memme Onwudiwe and Mr. Jerry Ting will offer the reading group, Startup Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Legal Technology, in Spring 2022.
9/28/2021 Mr. Steven Schaus will offer the reading group, Rights and Rights Holders, in Spring 2022.
9/27/2021 Professor Robert Mnookin’s Spring 2022 course, Negotiation and Diplomacy, has been cancelled.
9/27/2021 Professor Mark Wu will offer the course, Asian Americans and the Law, and the seminar, China and the International Legal Order, in Spring 2022.
9/27/2021 Professor William Fisher and Mr. Benjamin Sobel will offer the reading group, Property in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, in Spring 2022.
9/27/2021 Mr. Martin Bienenstock will offer the course, Corporate Reorganization, in Spring 2022.
9/24/2021 Ms. Emma Scott will offer the reading group, Food System Workers, in Spring 2022.
9/24/2021 Mr. Mason Kortz will offer the reading group, Algorithms, Rights, and Responsibilities, in Spring 2022.
9/24/2021 Mr. Timothy Edgar will offer the seminar, Legal Problems in Cybersecurity and Cyber Conflict, in Spring 2022.
9/24/2021 Professor Yochai Benkler will offer the course, Workshop on Law and Political Economy, in Spring 2022.
9/24/2021 Professor Andrew Kaufman’s Spring 2022 course, Commercial Law: Secured Transactions, will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:45pm to 3:15pm.
9/22/2021 Professor John Goldberg will offer the course, Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment, in Spring 2022.
9/22/2021 Professor Scott Westfahl and Ms. Farayi Chipungu will offer Applying Adaptive Leadership to Thrive and Lead Change in Uncertain Times as a seminar in Spring 2022.
9/13/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics and open seats and no waitlist available for JD students and LLM students.
9/9/2021 Professor Charles Fried’s Spring 2022 course, Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment, has been cancelled.
9/7/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics and open seats and no waitlist available for JD students and LLM students.
9/3/2021 The 2021-22 Upper-Level J.D. and LL.M. Writing Groups are now published to the catalog.  Please note the registration deadlines for these offerings varies from the published written work deadlines in the Handbook.
9/2/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics and open seats and no waitlist available for JD students and LLM students.
8/30/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics and open seats and no waitlist available for JD students and LLM students.
8/26/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics and open seats and no waitlist available for JD students and LLM students.
8/25/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics with open seats and no waitlist available for JD students.
8/24/2021 Mr. Thomas Goldstein will offer the Supreme Court Litigation Clinic and accompanying seminar, Supreme Court Litigation, in Winter 2022.
8/23/2021 Mr. John Gleeson’s Fall 2021 course, Complex Federal Investigations, has been cancelled.
8/16/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics with open seats and no waitlist available for JD students.
8/11/2021 Ms. Jennifer Barrow will offer the reading group, The Uniform Code of Military Justice and Civilian Criminal Law, in Spring 2022.
8/11/2021 Mr. James Toomey will offer the reading group, Contemporary Challenges in Elder Law, in Spring 2022.
8/11/2021 Mr. Colin Doyle will offer the reading group, Race, Class, and Technology in Criminal Law, in Spring 2022.
8/11/2021 Mr. Owen Gallogly will offer the reading group, Interpreting “The Judicial Power” in Spring 2022.
8/9/2021 Judge Nancy Gertner’s Spring 2022 seminar, Law and Neuroscience, is no longer by permission and will be available to preference during the spring elective round.
8/9/2021 Professor David King will offer the HKS course, The U.S. Congress and Law Making, in Spring 2022.
8/9/2021 Ms. Jacqueline Bhabha will offer the HKS course, Migration and Human Rights, in Fall 2021.
8/9/2021 Professor Kathryn Sikkink will offer the HKS course, Global Governance, in Fall 2021.
8/9/2021 Professor Daniel Boyarin’s Spring 2022 seminar, Talmud for All: Jews and Gentiles, will now meet on Wednesdays from 1:45-3:45pm.
8/6/2021 Professor Daniel Boyarin’s Fall 2021 course, The Sugya in The Babylonian Talmud, will now meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 6:45-8:15pm.
8/3/2021 Ms. Aladdine Joroff will offer the course, Climate Solutions Living Lab, in Spring 2022.
8/3/2021 Professor Claire Priest will offer the seminar, Advanced Property Law: Economic, Political, and Historical Development, in Winter 2022.
7/23/2021 Mr. Mark Beckett and Mr. Daniel Tan will offer the course, International Commercial Arbitration, in Winter 2022.
7/22/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics with open seats and no waitlist available for JD students.
7/20/2021 Mr. Deepak Gupta will offer the seminar, Forced Arbitration, in Spring 2022.
7/20/2021 Ms. Jessica Fjeld will offer the reading group, Thinking like Yourself: Poetry, Law, and Social Justice, in Spring 2022.
7/16/2021 Professor Arnulf Becker Lorca will offer the seminar, Human Rights in Transformative Constitutionalism, in Fall 2021.
7/16/2021 Professor Kevin Mohan will offer the course, Deals, in Spring 2021. This course will be cross-listed with HBS and held at HBS.
7/16/2021 Dr. Arevik Avedian will offer the course, Fundamentals of Statistical Analysis, in Spring 2022.
7/15/2021 Professor Brian Wolfman will offer the course, Appellate Courts and Advocacy Workshop, in Winter 2022.
7/15/2021 Professor David Malan will offer the course, Computer Science for Lawyers (CS50 for Lawyers), in Winter 2022.
7/12/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics with open seats and no waitlist available for JD students.
7/12/2021 Ms. Antonia Apps’ Spring 2022 course, White Collar Criminal Law and Procedure, will be held over six weeks on Thursdays and Fridays from 10:45am-12:45pm.
7/9/2021 Professor Tamar Herzog will offer the course, The History of Law in Europe, in Spring 2022.
7/9/2021 Professor Tarun Khanna will offer the course, Contemporary Developing Countries: Entrepreneurial Solutions to Intractable Social and Economic Problems, in Fall 2021.
7/6/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics with open seats and no waitlist available for JD students.
06/30/2021 Mr. Benjamin Wittes will offer the seminar, Writing about the Law for General Audiences, in Spring 2022.
06/30/2021 Mr. Ian Gershengorn will offer the seminar, The Roberts Court: Theory and Practice, in Spring 2022.
06/30/2021 Dr. Mary Beth B. Chopas will offer the course, Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II, in Fall 2021.
06/30/2021 Ms. Alexandra McKinney will offer the course, Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II, in Fall 2021.
06/30/2021 Ms. Amy McManus will offer two courses, An Introduction to American Law and Legal Research, Writing and Analysis II, in Fall 2021.
06/30/2021 Mr. Christopher Taggart will offer the course, Legal Research, Writing and Analysis I, in Fall 2021.
06/30/2021 Judge Thomas Griffith will offer the course, The Role of the Article III Judge, in Winter 2022.
06/30/2021 Professor Bethany Berger will offer the course, American Indian Law, in Winter 2022.
6/28/2021 List of Fall 2021 courses and clinics with open seats and no waitlist available for JD students.
6/24/2021 Ms. Rochael Adranly’s Spring 2022 seminar, Law, Justice, and Design: Making Legal Systems for Human Beings, has been cancelled.
6/17/2021 Judge Raymond Kethledge will offer the seminar, Classical Liberalism and the Rule of Law, in Spring 2022.
6/16/2021 Mr. Daniel Kahn, Mr. Leo Tsao, and Ms. Lorinda Laryea will offer the seminar, Corporate Criminal Investigations, in Spring 2022.
6/16/2021 Ms. Alicia Yamin will offer the seminar, Contested Domains: Comparative and International Legal Struggles over Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights, in Spring 2022.
6/16/2021 Ms. Deborah Paul will offer the course, International Taxation, in Spring 2022.
6/11/2021 Dr. Yas Banifatemi will offer the course, International Investment Arbitration, in Fall 2021.
6/11/2021 Professor Lawrence Lessig will offer the course, Constitutional Structure and Rights: How the document is read, in Spring 2022.
6/11/2021 Professor Lawrence Lessig’s Spring 2022 course, Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment, has been cancelled.
6/10/2021 Ms. Sarah Reed and Ms. Robin Painter will offer the course, Nuts and Bolts of Forming a Venture Capital Fund, in Fall 2021.
6/10/2021 Ms. Leah Plunkett will offer the reading group, Youth, Privacy, and Digital Citizenship, in Fall 2021, and the reading group, Access to Justice in the Digital World, in Spring 2022.
6/9/2021 Mr. Brackett Denniston will offer the reading group, Leading as a General Counsel: The challenges of being an in house counsel in a volatile world, in Fall 2021.
6/9/2021 Professor Susan Crawford’s course, City Use of Technology, will now take place in Spring 2022.
6/9/2021 Professor Bill Alford’s Fall 2021 reading group, Engaging China, will now be held on Wednesday evenings.
6/8/2021 Ms. Tara Kole will offer the reading group, Entertainment and Media Law: Entertainment Transactions and Negotiations, in Spring 2022.
6/8/2021 Professor Urs Gasser’s Spring 2022 course, Comparative Digital Privacy, has been canceled.
6/7/2021 Professor Sheila Heen will offer the seminar, Money, Negotiation & You, in Spring 2022.
6/3/2021 Ms. Diane Rosenfeld will offer the seminar, Title IX: Sports, Sex and Equality on Campus, and the reading group, Feminist Utopias, in Fall 2021, as well as the course, Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice in Spring 2022.
6/2/2021 Professor Sheila Heen will offer the course, Negotiation Workshop, in Spring 2022. The Workshop will meet on Wednesdays from 4:30-8:40pm and Thursdays from 4:00-8:10pm.
5/27/2021 Ms. Salma Waheedi will offer the reading group, Law, Human Rights, and Social Justice in Israel and Palestine, in Spring 2022.
5/27/2021 Mr. John Gleeson will offer the course, Complex Federal Investigations, in Fall 2021.
5/27/2021 Ms. Caitlin Halligan and Mr. Michael Dreeben will offer the seminar, Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Workshop, in Fall 2021.
5/24/2021 Justice Thomas Lee will offer the seminar, Advanced Interpretation: Law and Language, in Fall 2021.
5/24/2021 Mr. Neil McGaraghan and Ms. Morgan Franklin will offer the reading group, Political Dialogue in Polarized Times, in Fall 2021.
5/24/2021 Ms. Jeanne Charn will offer the seminar, Financial and Legal Needs of Low and Moderate Income Households, in Spring 2022.
5/24/2021 Mr. Davis Wang and Mr. Avi Alter will offer the course, Structuring Deals: Uncovering Tax and Structuring Strategies in M&A and other Public Transactions, in Spring 2022.
5/21/2021 The seminar, Federalism and States as Public Law Actors, taught by Ms. Caitlin Halligan, will now be offered in Spring 2021.
5/21/2021 Ms. Jeanne Charn will offer the Delivery of Legal  Services clinic in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022, and Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.
5/21/2021 Ms. Betsy Gwin and Ms. Julie McCormack will offer the Poverty Law Workshop: A Toolkit for Addressing Inequity & Homelessness in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.
5/21/2021 Professor Josh McDaniel will offer the Religious Freedom Clinic in Fall 2021 and Spring 2022.
5/20/2021 Professor Lucian Bebchuk and Mr. Roberto Tallarita will offer the course, Stakeholder Capitalism, in Fall 2021.
5/20/2021 Ms. Nancy Kelly and Mr. John Willshire will offer the seminar, Emerging Issues in Refugee Protection: The Representation of Child Asylum Seekers, in Spring 2022.
5/20/2021 Professor Jack Beermann will offer the course, Administrative Law, in Spring 2022.
5/17/2021 Mr. Patrice Simms will offer the course, Environmental Justice, in Spring 2022.
5/17/2021 Professor Peter Murray will offer the course, Trial Advocacy Workshop, in Winter 2022.
5/17/2021 Professor Sheila Heen will offer the course, Negotiation Workshop, in Spring 2022. Course scheduling is TBA.
5/17/2021 Professor Mark Roe will now offer the courses, Bankruptcy and Corporate Governance: Corporate Purpose, in Spring 2022.
5/13/2021 Mr. James Tierney and Mr. Peter Brann will offer the course, The Role of the State Attorney General, in Spring 2022.
5/13/2021 Professor Rafael Alomar will offer the course, American Constitutionalism and the Insular Cases, in Winter 2022.
5/11/2021 Ms. Anna Crowe and Ms. Aminta Ossom will offer the reading group, Contemporary Challenges in International Human Rights, in Spring 2022.
5/5/2021 Ms. Nicole Summers will offer the reading group, HLAB: Spanish for Public Interest Lawyers, in Fall 2021.
5/5/2021 Professor Eloise Lawrence will offer the reading group, Community Lawyering Reading Group, in Spring 2022.
5/4/2021 Enrollment in Prof. Greenwood and Prof. Stephanopoulos’ Fall 2021 and Spring 2022 Election Law Clinic will now be by permission. Applications for both semesters will be due by July 16, 2021.
5/1/2021 Professor Jonathan Zittrain will offer the seminar, Design for Democratic Discourse, in Fall 2021.