Elective Course

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken (or are taking concurrently) the Corporations course…

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken or are taking concurrently the Corporations course…

Prerequisites:There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken or are taking concurrently the Corporations course at…

Prerequisites:There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken or are taking concurrently the Corporations course at…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, and Prof. Oliver Hart, the Lewis P. and Linda L.

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken (or are taking concurrently) the Corporations course…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken (or are taking concurrently) the Corporations course…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier,  and Prof. Oliver Hart, the Lewis P. and Linda L.

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.

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.

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.

Students enrolling in writing groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office.…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

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.

Prerequisite: There are no prerequisites and the instructors welcome students with an interest in comparative legal study but no prior engagement with Chinese or Islamic…

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.…

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…

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: This seminar is only open to current JD/MBA third- and fourth-year students. Exam Type: No Exam The credit breakdown for this seminar is as…

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: By permission. Interested students should send one of the faculty a short statement of interest. Exam Type: No Exam

Evaluation is a…

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…

Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

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…

Students enrolling in writing groups are required to submit a signed Writing Group Registration Form to the Registrar’s Office.

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…

Prerequisite: By permission of instructor. Because the readings are in Japanese, students should have the equivalent of at least two years’ language instruction, but the…

Prerequisites: Admission is by permission of instructors; applicants should submit letters of inquiry with CVs (as a single PDF) to Caroline Fitzgerald (cfitzgerald@law.harvard.edu) by June…

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…