2020-2021

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Contract law is the study of legally enforceable promises, normally exchanged as part…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Food Law and Policy (2 fall classroom credits). Some seats…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Students in the spring clinic must enroll in either Food…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The Policy Advocacy Workshop is a hands-on seminar that will explore the methods, tools, and skills used to conduct…

Prerequisites: No prerequisites for JD students. LLM students must seek faculty permission. Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will present an overview of topics in…

Prerequisites: No prerequisites for JD students. LLM students must seek faculty permission. Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will present an overview of topics in…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule Basic introduction to property and the role of law in the construction of markets…

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JD students who have taken other courses covering some of this material should seek permission before enrolling.
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Prerequisites: This course draws on a background of US history and constitutional history. Students who are unsure of their preparedness are encouraged to check with…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on the problem of corruption, principally public corruption (bribery, embezzlement, etc.) in developing and…

Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on the problem of corruption, principally public corruption (bribery, embezzlement, etc.) in developing and…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It…

Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…

Prerequisites: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will study the law governing federal administrative agencies, and…

Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will…

Prerequisite: For JD students, this course is open to those who have completed Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment. For LLM students,…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course provides an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the…

Prerequisite: This course is open to students who have taken Corporations, or by permission of the instructor to waive the prerequisite. Students should be willing…

Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…

Prerequisites: Admission to this seminar is by permission of the instructor. Students should send a CV and brief statement of their background and interest in…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course concerns the legal protection afforded in civil proceedings against interference by others…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

There will be two short papers in lieu of an examination. One will be assigned midway through…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The liberal ideal of legality yields both formalization of law (law…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

There will be no paper or exam, and class will be graded credit/no credit. We will look…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Students enrolled in the course will be expected to prepare one…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam. Students enrolled in the course will be expected to submit a series of reaction papers to daily assignments, some…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course is designed to offer an overview of the work of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will explore developments in international capital markets over the past two decades. We will read a…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will examine the rules and principles of American evidence law,…

Prerequisite: None required; preferred that students have already completed Corporations or at a minimum are taking contemporaneously with this course. Exam: Please refer to the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In the post-Cold War period, economics and national security were relatively separate realms, both in policymaking and scholarship. But…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course encompasses many aspects of disability rights, laws, and policies, with particular emphasis on the Americans with Disabilities…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will interrogate theories and practices of punishment in relation to the American criminal justice system—a system…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course considers the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility, the…

Prerequisites: For JD students, Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Constitutional Law: First Amendment, or Separation of Powers. For LLM students, enrollment is by permission of…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course explores the international law of the sea, which is one of the most important and compelling areas…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule In this course we will study the basic rules and principles of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule In this course we will study the basic rules and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type:No Exam

Although there is no examination or lengthy paper required, I do ask each student to prepare one response…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Abraham Lincoln is not only regarded (by most analysts) as very definitely one of our most important presidents. He…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The main impetus for the Constitution of 1787 was the perception, spelled out in the very first paragraph of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Consumers use bank accounts, debit and credit cards, check cashing services and payment apps to receive, store, spend and…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar interrogates the ways in which democracy, as practiced in the United States, continues to form. In doing…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course examines key intersections of race, politics, and law within a historical trajectory of evolving conceptions and associated…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines mass media depictions and imaging in our increasingly-tumultuous modern era. It situates this loaded imaging process…