Course Days
Tuesday
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Partnership Tax
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Taxation or permission of the instructor to waive the prerequisite. Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This class…
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Drug Product Liability Litigation
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule
Class participation (10%); short mid-term “bench memorandum” in mid-October… -
Freedom of Speech Frontiers: Comparative and Global Perspectives
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will write one short and one longer paper. The interconnected and frictionless world of the internet… -
Torts 2
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: One Day Take-Home Tort law provides redress for civil wrongs. When one person breaches a duty not to injure another, tort law may…
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Law and Psychology: The Emotions
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will be asked to write short papers (1-2 pages) on each week’s readings. There will be no… -
Rights and Rights Holders
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The concept of a right is central to both legal and moral thought. In this reading group, we’ll try…
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Public Health Law and Policy
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: This seminar is open to LLM students by permission. Exam Type: No Exam This seminar provides an overview of the historical law and policy…
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Patent Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal rules in the United States and other countries…
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Progressive Alternatives: Institutional Reconstruction Now
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: Takehome, not administered by HLS An exploration of the past and future agenda of progressives, whether self-described as liberals or as leftists.
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Family Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type:No Exam We will study the increasingly complex “marriage system,” in which new forms of adult relationship join marriage in the legal…
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American Legal History 1776-1865
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course is designed to consider the development of American law from…
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Criminal Procedure: Investigations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course examines the law governing police behavior, primarily by examining the constitutional doctrines of the Fourth, Fifth, and…
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International Humanitarian Law/Law of Armed Conflict
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: Public International Law is recommended. Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule The law of war is one of the…
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Legal History: English Legal History
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: The English Legal History course, either previously or concurrently, or the permission of the instructor, is required. Some materials in Latin and French will…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class The course will examine the law that governs corporations, with a focus on the on the protection of shareholders…
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Ideal Discourse: JuryX Workshop
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-day takehome
In addition there will be a 1200-word paper due at the end of the workshop. Ideal Discourse… -
Quantitative Reasoning
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-home This course provides an introduction to quantitative concepts and methods that are increasingly important for lawyers. We will…
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From Protest to Law: Triumphs and Defeats in Struggles for Racial Justice, 1950-1970
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The requirement for the course are five six to eight page papers that react to readings and lectures. This…
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Public Health Law and Policy
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: This seminar is open to LLM students by permission. Exam Type: No Exam This seminar provides an overview of the historical law and policy…
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Gender Violence Advanced Legal Policy and Research Seminar
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Students must have taken or be concurrently enrolled in either Title IX: Sports, Sex and Equality on Campus or Gender Violence, Law and Social…
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Seeing Criminal (In)Justice: Examining the Interplay of Visual Media, Storytelling and Criminal Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam As America reckons with the profound injustices of mass incarceration, this course looks at the narratives that drive our…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: 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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Labor Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will focus on the statutory, judicial, and administrative law governing…
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Maximizing Joint Gains: How Taxes Affect Business Decisions
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is taught from a book written by B-school professors…
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Global Governance
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No HLS Exam This course focuses on the interplay among states, international organizations, multinational corporations, civil society organizations, and activist networks…
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Reproductive Technology and Genetics: Legal and Ethical Issues
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Should individuals be able to sell reproductive materials like sperm and ova, or reproductive services like surrogacy? Should the…
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Roman Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam An introduction to Roman law that combines a survey approach with one that focuses in some depth on topics…
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Criminal Law 2
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course considers the basic themes and doctrines of substantive criminal law, including criminal…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study…
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Civil Procedure 3
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers what should, should not, and does happen when someone files…
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Legal Profession Seminar
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the… -
Fair Trial
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule
Students will write a paper (1500 words) and an… -
Child, Family and State
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will look at law and policy governing child rights and…
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Taxation
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course focuses on the U.S. federal income tax and the policy considerations that inform the design of the…
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The U.S. Congress and Law Making
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No HLS Exam The United States Congress is the “board of directors” for the Federal Government, and it plays the central…
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Prerequisites: None Exam type: Any Day Take-Home This course is one of the two basic courses in the field. It focuses on the structure of…
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Sports and the Law: Representing the Professional Athlete
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home
Class participation and successful completion of weekly assignments will count for a significant portion of the… -
Conflict of Laws
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Open to upper-level JD students. For LLM students: this upper-level course assumes that students have prior knowledge of the basic principles of American law…
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Public Health Law and Policy
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: This seminar is open to LLM students by permission. Exam Type: No Exam This seminar provides an overview of the historical law and policy…
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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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Copyright
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will explore copyright law and policy. Approximately two thirds of…
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Patent Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal…
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Property 5
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course deals with characteristic arrangements under American law for the creation and…
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Criminal Law 6
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course considers the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility;…
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Criminal Law 6
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course considers the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility; the significance of act, intent, causation, and result;…
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Legislation and Regulation 6
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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Capital Punishment in America
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: For JD students, Criminal Law is required. For LLM students, permission of the instructor is required to waive the requisite. Exam Type: Please refer…
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Torts 6
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will review the doctrines and history of tort law, various positive…
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Torts 7
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule Most simply, a tort is a civil wrong not arising from contract. But tort…
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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…