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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.

Spring 2022: Professor Yochai Benkler

Thursdays 6:45-8:45pm

This workshop is devoted to reading and discussing new scholarly work on law and political economy.

Fall 2021: Professors John Goldberg and Gabriella Blum

Tuesdays 1:45-3:45pm

This workshop involves reading, discussing, and critiquing scholarly works broadly relating to the theme of Global Justice. Among the topics addressed are distributive justice across national boundaries; state responsibility for the international consequences of domestic policy decisions; and comparisons between legal and moral responsibilities among states and among individuals. The focus will be on the doctrinal and theoretical aspects of these questions rather than hands-on practice.

Spring 2022: Professor Benjamin Eidelson & Professor Christopher Lewis

Wednesdays 4:15pm-6:15pm

This workshop examines new ideas at the intersection of law and philosophy. Half of the workshop meetings will be devoted to discussion of pre-circulated working papers presented by invited authors. These sessions are open to the Harvard community. The other meetings, limited to enrolled students, will be devoted to discussion of other significant works in the field.

Spring 2022: Professor Louis Kaplow & Professor Steven Shavell

Tuesdays 6:45-8:15pm

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

Fall 2021 — Professor Nicholas Stephanopoulos

Tuesdays 4:15-6:15pm

This workshop is devoted to learning about, discussing, and critically evaluating new scholarly work on law and politics. A series of outside speakers, drawn from both law schools and political science departments, will present recent or forthcoming papers on election law and/or American politics.

Spring 2022 — Professor Kenneth Mack & Professor Anna Lvovsky

Wednesdays 4:15-6:15pm

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 2021: Professor John Goldberg & Professor Henry Smith

Wednesdays, 1:45-3:45pm

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 2022: Dean John Manning & Professor Martha Minow

Mondays 4:15-6:15pm

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.

Fall 2021: Professors Louis Kaplow, Lucian Bebchuk, Oliver Hart, Kathryn Spier, and Holger Spamann

Mondays 2:00-3:30pm

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

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.