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Prerequisites: Taxation or permission of the instructor to waive the prerequisite. Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This class…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

Class participation (10%); short mid-term “bench memorandum” in mid-October…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

Students will write one short and one longer paper.
The interconnected and frictionless world of the internet…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course is designed to consider the development of American law from…

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…

Prerequisite: Public International Law is recommended. Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule The law of war is one of the…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will focus on the statutory, judicial, and administrative law governing…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers what should, should not, and does happen when someone files…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

Students will write a paper (1500 words) and an…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will look at law and policy governing child rights and…

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…

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…

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home

Class participation and successful completion of weekly assignments will count for a significant portion of the…

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…

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…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will explore copyright law and policy. Approximately two thirds of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course deals with characteristic arrangements under American law for the creation and…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course considers the basic themes of substantive criminal law, including criminal responsibility;…

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;…

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…

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…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will review the doctrines and history of tort law, various positive…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule Most simply, a tort is a civil wrong not arising from contract. But tort…

Prerequisites: None. This course is designed for students with and without prior programming experience. Exam Type: No Exam This course is a variant of…