Academic Periods
2020-2021
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Contracts 7
February 3, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Contract law is the study of legally enforceable promises, normally exchanged as part…
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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…
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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…
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Policy Advocacy Workshop
February 2, 2023
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…
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Food Law and Policy
February 2, 2023
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…
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Food Law and Policy
February 2, 2023
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…
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Property 4
February 2, 2023
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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Constitutional Law: First Amendment
February 1, 2023
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…
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Corruption and Anticorruption: Selected Topics
January 31, 2023
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…
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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Corruption and Anticorruption: Selected Topics
January 31, 2023
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…
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Legislation and Regulation 3
January 31, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It…
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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Administrative Law
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will study the law governing federal administrative agencies, and…
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Legislation and Regulation 4
January 31, 2023
Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will…
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Federal Courts and the Federal System
January 31, 2023
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,…
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Constitutional Law 1
January 31, 2023
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…
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Venture Law and Finance
January 31, 2023
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…
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Corporations
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: There is no formal prerequisite for the course. Students without a basic familiarity – not necessarily expertise – with rudimentary accounting and finance concepts,…
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M&A Litigation
January 31, 2023
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…
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Torts 2
January 27, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course concerns the legal protection afforded in civil proceedings against interference by others…
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Theories About Law
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
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Jurisprudence: Legal Ideals
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The liberal ideal of legality yields both formalization of law (law…
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Natural Law and Positive Law
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
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Regulation of Financial Institutions
January 27, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Students enrolled in the course will be expected to prepare one…
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Federal Budget Policy
January 27, 2023
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…
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Securities Regulation
January 27, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course is designed to offer an overview of the work of…
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The United States and Global Capital Markets Regulation: A Retrospective Of the Past Twenty Years
January 27, 2023
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…
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Evidence
January 25, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will examine the rules and principles of American evidence law,…
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Hedge and Private Equity Funds: Law and Policy
January 24, 2023
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…
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Geoeconomics: Trade, Investment and Security
January 23, 2023
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…
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Disability Rights Law
January 23, 2023
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…
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Punishment, Prisons, and Justice
January 23, 2023
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…
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Criminal Law 5
January 23, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course considers the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility, the…
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Contemporary Issues in Constitutional Law
January 23, 2023
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…
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The International Law of the Sea
January 23, 2023
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…
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Evidence
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule In this course we will study the basic rules and principles of…
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Evidence
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule In this course we will study the basic rules and…
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Monuments and Memorialization
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type:No Exam
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Abraham Lincoln as Constitutional Theorist
January 23, 2023
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…
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The US Constitution: Is Reform Necessary? Is It Possible?
January 23, 2023
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…
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Consumer Financial Market Regulation
January 23, 2023
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…
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Democracy, the Incomplete Experiment
January 23, 2023
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…
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Coloring Politics, Racing Law: America’s Ongoing Struggle with Changing Conceptions of Race
January 23, 2023
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…
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Contesting Media in the Modern Era
January 23, 2023
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…