LLM

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Students will do 4 short response papers critiquing work-in-progress to be presented by leading comparative law scholars.
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Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The re-emergence of Asia is posing conceptual and practical challenges to understandings of and frameworks for global order that…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This one unit course will examine the role that China has been playing in a world order in flux.

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Students are graded on their team presentation (20% of final grade) and an open book, open notes in-class…

Prerequisites: None Exam type: Any Day Take-Home This course focuses on the structure of the United States government, including the doctrines of separation of powers…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Students participating in this Legal Innovation Through Design Thinking seminar will have the opportunity to: work collaboratively in small…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam A research paper will be required rather than a final examination. This seminar is designed for students who are…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will provide students with exposure to ongoing research in the economic analysis of law. At most of…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines the historical relationship between American workers and the law. It focuses on legal contests over workers’…

Prerequisites: Students must have completed, or be concurrently enrolled in, Labor Law or Employment Law. Exam Type: No Exam In this two unit course,…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course explores the intersections between Jewish law and critical theory, with an emphasis on the ways in which…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will operate as a lab and explore the current landscape of human rights litigation in U.S. courts,…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will feature the presentation and discussion of cutting edge scholarship on health law, health policy, biotechnology and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The seminar will explore different kinds of facts, including historic facts, scientific facts, legislative facts, constitutional facts, mixed questions…

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Grading will be based 50% on class participation and 50% on 5 short thought papers submitted and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is designed to help students learn and interrogate the theory and practice of dispute systems design (DSD).

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will consider one of the newest intellectual currents within American Legal Theory – Critical Race Theory. Emerging…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The criminal investigation and prosecution of corporate misconduct are among the most high profile areas of focus for federal…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will examine the law governing the increasingly diverse activities of corporations in armed conflict and the avenues…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will explore the history of Asian Americans under the law. We will first address historical issues such…

Prerequisite: Civil Procedure Exam Type: No Exam This course will focus on effective written advocacy at the federal district court level, including why writing for the…

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

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In spring 2020-spring 2021, the United States ran a nationwide, real-time, high-stakes experiment to see what happened when you…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This Reading Group will focus on the question of and solutions for Tibet. It will look at the historical…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This class will explore the ways in which money serves both as a form of punishment in, and a…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will examine changing judicial views on fundamental questions concerning the structure of government. The new composition of…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam As AI and networked digital technologies have become increasingly omnipresent and societally impactful, lawyers need to be prepared to…

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This Reading Group will provide students with an overview of private equity and explore various policy implications associated with…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam We will look briefly at the classical debate between exponents of natural law (Thomas Aquinas) and positive law (John…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Misdemeanors comprise the vast bulk of the American criminal system, approximately 80 percent of criminal dockets, yet they are…

Prerequisites: Students who have completed either of the following Spring 2021 reading groups, Evaluating Criminal Justice Reform or Legal Policies, Randomized Control Trials, and Ethics,…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The law possesses an inherent duality between society’s normative ideals and its positive commitment to the relevance and importance…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam An introduction to jurisprudence and the philosophy of law. Note: This reading group will meet on the following dates:…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will focus on human rights advocacy in the Muslim world. After providing an introduction to Islamic law,…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam It is commonly thought that wars end after a decisive military battle produces to a conclusive victory – one…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam There has been a vigorous, decades-long debate around the governance of digital technology – one conducted variously in the…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Water is sometimes scarce, sometimes abundant, but always essential to life. Its governance presents a unique mix of international,…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Debt is a powerful force in our market society. In addition to its economic significance, it implicates important social…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam In this reading group, we will explore historic and ongoing legal and policy debates about the fuels that power…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will explore situations and applications that challenge core principles in negotiation, mediation, and dispute systems design…

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…

Prerequisite: Some background in constitutional law may be helpful, but there are no prerequisites; all are welcome to enroll. Exam Type: No Exam The U.S.

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This is the second itertation of this course and will reflect some lessons learned from last year.  Its origin…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam At the intersection of debates about religion, private morality and public policy, sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR)…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In self-consciously reacting against the 19th century Realist novel, the Modernist authors of the 1920s and 1930s experimented with…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group explores the impact of new and emerging digital technologies on the longstanding barriers that low-income and…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In spring 2020-spring 2021, the United States ran a nationwide, real-time, high-stakes experiment to see what happened when you…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In spring 2020-spring 2021, the United States ran a nationwide, real-time, high-stakes experiment to see what happened when you…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group explores the impact of new and emerging digital technologies on the longstanding barriers that low-income and…