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Faculty Workshops and Colloquia

A gathering place for HLS faculty to present their current scholarship and engage in peer dialogue.

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Workshops for Students and Faculty

Harvard Law School offers several legal workshops and seminars focused on specialized fields of law. These workshops and seminars bring together students, faculty, and others to learn about emerging scholarship from leading thinkers, explore challenges in various fields of law, and engage in vibrant discussion. Workshops and seminars have different attendance requirements, so please reach out to the relevant contact person to find out whether you will be able to participate.

Fall 2020: Professor William Alford & Professor Intisar Rabb

Mondays 5:00pm-7:00pm

This workshop engages students with key questions in comparative law, using as focal points the study of Chinese and Islamic law and legal history, introducing influential scholarship in each field both for their importance and as a vehicle for thinking about methodological issues in comparative work in general, and bringing to the workshop several leading scholars in each field who will present works-in-progress.

Professor Andrew Crespo & Professor Adriaan Lanni

The Criminal Justice Workshop invites leading scholars of criminal law, criminal procedure, criminal justice administration, and criminology to present works in progress to members of the faculty, fellows, and students selected for admission into the course.
No workshop offered in 2020-21.

Petrie-Flom Center

The Health Law, Policy, Bioethics, and Biotechnology Workshop provides a forum for discussion of new scholarship in these fields from the world's leading experts. Harvard graduate students may register to take the workshop for course credit, but it is also open to the public.

Professor William Alford & Professor Gabriella Blum

This workshop is intended to provide students with the opportunity to enmesh themselves in scholarly writing about international law by exploring challenges that scholars in this field face and by bringing to the workshop a range of scholars engaged in some of the most interesting new work in it.
No workshop offered in 2020-21.

Fall 2020: Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell

Tuesdays 5:00-6:30pm

This seminar provides students with an opportunity to engage with ongoing research in the economic analysis of law.

Fall 2020: Professor Charles Donahue and Professor Tamar Herzog

Mondays 5:00-7:00pm

This workshop examines major works in the field of legal history, important historiographical debates and critical methodologies. Students will participate in workshop presentations by leading scholars.

Fall 2020: Louis Kaplow, Lucian Bebchuk, Oliver Hart, Kathryn Spier, and Holger Spamann

Mondays 12:30-2:00pm

This seminar involves the presentation by speakers of papers in the fields of law and economics, law and finance, and contract theory.

Fall 2020: Professor John Goldberg & Professor Henry Smith

Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00pm

This workshop will explore the foundations of private law -- property, contracts, torts, and restitution. Emphasis will be on theories that offer explanations, justifications, and criticisms of architectural features of these areas of law and of their connections to one another.

Spring 2020: Dean John Manning & Professor Daphna Renan

Wednesdays 5:00-7:00pm

The Public Law Workshop reads contemporary work, in legal theory and adjacent disciplines, on the legal and political foundations of constitutional law, interpretive practice, and regulatory design. Invited speakers present papers each week on topics relevant to the workshop’s themes. Students are required to prepare written questions for each workshop as well as a response paper on a presented work of their choosing.