Academic Periods
2022-2023
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Advocacy: The Courtroom and Beyond
January 18, 2023
Note: This course is restricted to first-year J.D. students only. The drop deadline for 1L January Experiential Term (JET) classes is Friday, December 2, 2022.
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First Year Legal Research and Writing 6B
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: No Exam The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and…
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Writing Group: The Problem of Corporate Power
January 18, 2023
Students enrolling in Fall-Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by October 14, 2022.…
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First Year Legal Research and Writing 4B
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: No Exam The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and…
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Students enrolling in Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by February 3, 2023.…
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Writing Group: Artificial Intelligence and Law
January 18, 2023
Students enrolling in Fall-Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by October 14, 2022.…
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First Year Legal Research and Writing 4A
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: No Exam The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and…
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First Year Legal Research and Writing 3A
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: No Exam The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and…
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Writing Group: Law and Philosophy
January 18, 2023
Students enrolling in Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by February 3, 2023.…
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Writing Group: Problems in Public Law
January 18, 2023
Students enrolling in Spring groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office by February 3, 2023.…
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Federal Courts Clinical Seminar
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Federal Courts Clinic (2 winter clinical credits + 2-3 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the…
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Law and Neuroscience
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines cutting edge and even controversial linkages between law and neuroscience. We seek to highlight neuroscientific basis…
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Algorithms, Rights, and Responsibilities
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will address two pressing questions in the world of algorithms and the law: who holds the…
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The Constitution in American History
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will examine the political and legal history of the U.S. Constitution, with an eye toward considering how…
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Policing in America: The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Law enforcement in the United States plays a critical, often life-altering role in its citizenry’s life. More than 19,000…
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Election Law Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Election Law Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom credits). The…
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Election Law Clinical Seminar
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Election Law Clinic (2-5 spring clinical credits). The clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…
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Prerequisite: 1L Constitutional Law or Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers Exam Type: No Exam Administrative law in the United States is often viewed as a…
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Religious Freedom Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Religious Freedom Clinic Seminar (2 spring classroom credits). The clinic and…
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Presidential Power in an Era of Conflict
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment Exam Type: No Exam This course will explore the modern exercise of Presidential power in…
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Negotiation Workshop
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam *Cross-Registrants: Please note that cross-registrants interested in taking the Workshop must participate in the online application process for the…
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Becoming a Law Professor
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: Admission is by application via email to Susannah Barton Tobin at stobin@law.harvard.edu by October 31, 2022. Please include a paragraph expressing your interest in…
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Music and Digital Media
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: A prior course or other background in copyright law would be useful but is not required. Exam Type: No Exam This course explores a…
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State Constitutional Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
Each student will be responsible for one in-class presentation and two 6-8 page papers. This survey course… -
Constitutional Law: First Amendment
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course is one of two basic courses in Constitutional Law. We will study the Freedom of Speech in…
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Animal Law & Policy Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Animal Law and Policy Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom…
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Conceptions of Legal Entities
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: A prior or parallel course in corporate law at HLS or elsewhere, or prior experience in matters relating to the corporation or other business…
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Constitutional Law 1
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: In Class In this class, we will develop a conception of constitutional interpretation that explains — and maybe justifies — the Court’s jurisprudence…
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Federal Courts Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement.
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Legislation and Regulation 1
January 18, 2023
Exam type: In Class Legislation and Regulation is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will examine the way Congress and administrative…
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The Effects of Mass Incarceration: Experiences of Prison and Parole
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam More than 6 million Americans are under “correctional supervision” in the United States, which incarcerates people at a rate…
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Interpreting “The Judicial Power”
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Article III is notoriously curt. This observation is particularly true with respect to its Vesting Clause. While Article I…
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Advanced Topics in Jewish Law: The Law of Magic
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: This seminar will be by permission of the instructor, who strongly prefers that students have a background in advanced study of Jewish legal material.
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Class and Racial Justice
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on questions about how the idea of “racial justice” is related to “class.” When,…
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Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinical Seminar
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). Students who enroll in the clinic will be enrolled in one of…
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Supreme Court Litigation Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement.
Required Class Component: Supreme Court Litigation (1 winter clinical credit). This clinic… -
First Year Legal Research and Writing 7B
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: No Exam The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and…
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Advanced Clinical Practice
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 3L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment…
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Supreme Court Litigation
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (2 winter clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll…
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J.D. Credit for Ph.D. Work
January 18, 2023
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Corporations
January 18, 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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Constitutional Law: Money and the Making of American Capitalism
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam: In Class According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was the clause allocating authority over money. Over the…
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First Year Legal Research and Writing 7A
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: No Exam The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and…
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Computer Science for Lawyers (CS50 for Lawyers)
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None. This course is designed for students with and without prior programming experience. Exam Type: No Exam This course is a variant of…
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International Labor Migration
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will draw on case studies to examine international labor migration flows, governance issues under national and international…
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Complex Litigation: Legal Doctrines, Real World Practice
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Civil Procedure or faculty permission to waive the prerequisite is required. Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course will study legal doctrines, litigation strategies…
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Animal Law & Policy Clinical Seminar
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Animal Law Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…
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Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Now
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam; Paper in lieu of examination An exploration of the past and future agenda of progressives, whether self-described as liberals or…
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Employment Law Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change (2 spring classroom…
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Constitutional Law 3
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: One Day Take-home This course provides an introduction to the structure of the U.S. Constitution and the rights and liberties it defines.