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Faculty Workshops and Colloquia

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

Learn more about Faculty Workshops and Colloquia offered this semester

Workshops for Students and Faculty

 

Spring 2019: Professor Adriaan Lanni & Professor Andrew Crespo

Wednesdays, 3:10-5:00pm, WCC Room 3012

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.

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.
There are no future events currently scheduled.

Professor William Alford & Professor Gabriella Blum

Wednesdays 3:00pm-5:00pm, Hauser 104

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 spring term 2019.

Spring 2019: Louis Kaplow and Steven Shavell

Tuesdays 5:00-6:30pm, Hauser 102

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

Spring 2019: Louis Kaplow, Lucian Bebchuk, Oliver Hart, Kathryn Spier, and Holger Spamann

Mondays 12:30-2:00pm, Hauser 105

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

Professor John Goldberg & Professor Jeffrey Pojanowski

Wednesdays, 3:00-5:00pm, Hauser Hall, Room 105

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.
No workshop offered spring term 2019.

Spring 2019: 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.

This seminar explores modern capitalism as an historical form of political economy, developed over the last three centuries, that may partake of all these dimensions.
No meetings during the 2018-19 academic year, but will host a set of occasional events.