Fall 2020

Enrollment in this clinic may fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement depending on project assignment. Please contact the Office of Clinical and Pro Bono…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions,…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions,…

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

Required Clinic Component: Government Lawyer: Attorney General Clinic (fall, winter and spring semesters). Students who enroll in any of the three clinic offerings will be…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: The Role of the State Attorney General (2 fall classroom…

Prerequisites: While there are no specific prerequisites for this workshop, it is highly advisable for students to have at least some background – coursework or…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam After the fall of the Soviet Union, capitalism appeared triumphant.  Commentators equated free markets with democracy and lauded the…

Prerequisite: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was…

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. This course is designed to be fully accessible to those with no prior quantitative training or background in the subjects covered. Exam Type:…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This 1-unit course is designed to provide students with no prior…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This 1-credit module fall course is designed to help students develop…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course examines the law governing police behavior, primarily by examining…

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

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore the role of faith and Biblical Christianity in shaping contemporary legal approaches to a variety…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will provide a comprehensive study of the law that governs enforceable…

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…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course examines the theory and practice of civil litigation, and the rules…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will examine key readings and projects surrounding the ethics and governance of the opaque complex adaptive…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: None The conventional wisdom around the responsibilities of platforms like Facebook, Google, and Amazon has evolved greatly. 1995-2010 roughly saw the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Fraud (and its derivatives such as deceit, non-disclosure, and insider trading) is one of the master concepts of the…

Exam type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It…

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…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Food Law and Policy (2 fall classroom credits). Some seats…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course examines the process of civil litigation. We will consider the jurisdiction…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Political parties play an essential role in our democracy. But they sit in an uneasy position in the legal…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course examines the law, both constitutional and statutory, that governs…

Prerequisites: For JD students there are no formal prerequisites, although familiarity with the rules of evidence is assumed throughout the course. For LLM students, permission…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam How do supreme courts decide hard cases? How do they justify the results they reach by persuasive opinions? How…

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

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam How does change happen? When, why, and how do people, and whole nations, come to together to influence…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In the post-Cold War period, economics and national security were relatively separate realms, both in policymaking and scholarship. But…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The law of evidence regulates the presentation of factual information in…

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

Prerequisites: Any one of the following: a prior course in corporate law, a parallel corporations course at HLS, or prior experience in matters relating to…

Prerequisite: Federal Courts Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will do a deep dive in to the Erie doctrine.  We will start by reading the…

Prerequisite: Admission is by permission of the instructors. Students who wish to be considered for the seminar should submit a CV to Henry Smith (hesmith@law.harvard.edu).

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this workshop, but it is intended for students with a strong academic bent. Exam: No Exam This workshop will…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Most simply, a tort is a civil wrong not arising from contract. But…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop aims to provide students with an historical perspective on the phenomenon of legal pluralism world-wide, but with…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will examine central questions about anti-discrimination law from both philosophical and doctrinal perspectives. After considering foundational issues…

The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and frame legal positions in…

The First-Year Legal Writing and Research Program (LRW) is a series of exercises introducing students to the way lawyers analyze and frame legal positions in…