Course Service Groups
Spring Term Elective Course
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Corruption and Anticorruption: Selected Topics
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on the problem of corruption, principally public corruption (bribery, embezzlement, etc.) in developing 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 4, 2022.…
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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Jurisprudence
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home Jurisprudence is the silent and controlling partner in every judge’s and every lawyer’s reasoning about law. A judge,…
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Food Law and Policy
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: No prerequisites for JD students. LLM students must seek faculty permission. Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will present an overview of topics in…
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Introduction to Accounting 3-Week Section
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This 1-credit spring course is designed to help students develop an understanding of the accounting information presented in corporate…
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Critical Corporate Theory Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: By Permission. Students interested in applying to join the Lab should submit a short (300 word maximum) statement of interest to Professor Hanson. The…
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Guns, Abortion and Climate Change – What is next for State AGs?
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: Students must complete one of the following courses: Role of the State Attorney General; Federalism and States as Public Law Actors; Local Government Law;…
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Art of Social Change
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course explores various strategies for systemic law and policy reform, focusing on education, child welfare (abuse and neglect,…
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Workshop on Law and Political Economy
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop is devoted to reading and discussing new scholarly work on law and political economy. Outside speakers and…
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Prerequisites: None. The course is an optional co-requisite for students enrolled in the Safety Net Project of the Veterans Law and Disability Benefits Clinic at…
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Critical Race Theorists and their Critics
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines the role of the law and legal activism in perpetuating and alleviating racial inequality in the…
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Access to Justice in the Digital World
January 30, 2023
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…
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Drafting and Negotiating Complex Cross-Border M&A Transactions
January 30, 2023
Note: Course will not be offered if fewer than 18 students enroll. Prerequisite: Corporations. For LLM students with applicable experience or courses, permission of the…
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Framing, Narrative, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In this seminar we will examine the ways in which the rhetorical and communications principles of framing and narrative…
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Media Images & The Law: Contesting Media in the Modern Era
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines mass media depictions and imaging in our increasingly-tumultuous modern era. It situates this loaded imaging process…
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The Effects of Mass Incarceration: Experiences of Prison and Parole
January 30, 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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Constitutions, Law, and Empire
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam What is a Constitution? Why, and under what circumstances, do people make them? What about the United States and…
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Policy Advocacy Workshop
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: No prerequisites for JD students. LLM students must seek faculty permission. Exam Type: No Exam The Policy Advocacy Workshop is a hands-on seminar that…
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The Roberts Court: Theory and Practice
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will examine various facets of the recent jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. We will consider a…
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Writing about the Law for General Audiences
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop will explore the process and many forms of writing about law for non-specialist audiences. From the blog…
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New Technologies and the Law of War
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Changes in contemporary warfare are challenging the fundamental principles of its regulation and their application in practice. From the…
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Statutory Interpretation in a Constitutional Democracy
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: Instructor permission is required for enrollment. Applicants should send a resume and statement of interest (with reference to prior coursework and experience related to…
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Mind and Criminal Responsibility in the Anglo-American Tradition
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam. Grades will be based upon short responses to weekly readings, a small project and presentation, and class participation. This…
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Foreign Relations Law
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: Knowledge of international law is useful, but not essential. Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore key doctrines and concepts of foreign relations…
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Housing Law and Policy
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will provide an introduction to U.S. housing law and policy with a focus on low- and moderate-income…
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Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will examine how visual representations affect the theory and practice of human rights advocacy and humanitarian…
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Algorithms, Rights, and Responsibilities
January 30, 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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American Legal History: Law, Economy, and Society in the Era of the American Revolution
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The seminar will examine the legal and constitutional history of late-colonial America and the early republic, an era that…
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Transitional Justice: Dispute Systems Design and Durable Peace
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Paper in lieu of exam After periods of widespread conflict or repression, the regular justice system of a… -
Legal History: American Legal Education
January 30, 2023
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A research paper will be required rather than a final examination. This seminar is designed for students… -
Financial and Legal Needs of Low and Moderate Income Households
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam The seminar will examine the opportunities and perils in consumer financial services available to low and moderate income households. We…
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Restorative and Transformative Justice
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: By Permission. Please send a one paragraph description of your related background and interest in the subject area to the instructor. Exam Type: No…
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Advanced Legal Research
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: For JD students, completion of First Year Legal Research and Writing. For LLM students, completion of LRWA I is required and an enrollment…
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Thinking like Yourself: Poetry, Law, and Social Justice
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam It’s often said that law school teaches you to “think like a lawyer,” which suggests that there is a…
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Interpreting “The Judicial Power”
January 30, 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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Legal Profession Seminar
January 30, 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 discussion, and…
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Statutes and Justice
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The principal controversy in modern statutory construction is the debate between purposivists and textualists. But these opponents in fact…
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Leading from the Middle
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This offering explores how to be an effective leader and an agent for positive change during the first 10-15…
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Law and Economics
January 30, 2023
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…
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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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Competing Values: Freedom, Equality, Property, & Democracy
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will cover a variety of current and enduring questions involving fundamental issues of freedom, equality, property,…
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The Constitution in American History
January 30, 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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Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home The subject of this course is the criminal process “from bail to jail.” We will address some of the…
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Drug and Device Innovation
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines innovation law and policy in the context of drugs and devices regulated by the Food &…
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Regional Human Rights Law: The Inter-American Perspective
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: A prior or concurrent course or clinic in international human rights law is recommended but not required. Exam Type: No Exam During the last…
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Contractual Interpretation
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: JD: Contracts or permission to waive from the instructor. LLM: No prerequisite. Exam Type: No Exam This reading group explores the problem of contractual…