Course Terms
Fall 2020
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The United States and Global Capital Markets Regulation: A Retrospective Of the Past Twenty Years
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will explore developments in international capital markets over the past two decades. We will read a…
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Federal Courts and the Federal System
January 26, 2023
Prerequisite: For JD students, this course is open to those who have completed Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment. For LLM students,…
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Hedge and Private Equity Funds: Law and Policy
January 24, 2023
Prerequisite: None required; preferred that students have already completed Corporations or at a minimum are taking contemporaneously with this course. Exam: Please refer to the…
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Geoeconomics: Trade, Investment and Security
January 23, 2023
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…
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Disability Rights Law
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course encompasses many aspects of disability rights, laws, and policies, with particular emphasis on the Americans with Disabilities…
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Contemporary Issues in Constitutional Law
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: For JD students, Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Constitutional Law: First Amendment, or Separation of Powers. For LLM students, enrollment is by permission of…
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Evidence
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule In this course we will study the basic rules and…
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Monuments and Memorialization
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type:No Exam
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Abraham Lincoln as Constitutional Theorist
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Abraham Lincoln is not only regarded (by most analysts) as very definitely one of our most important presidents. He…
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The US Constitution: Is Reform Necessary? Is It Possible?
January 23, 2023
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…
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Coloring Politics, Racing Law: America’s Ongoing Struggle with Changing Conceptions of Race
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course examines key intersections of race, politics, and law within a historical trajectory of evolving conceptions and associated…
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Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs
January 23, 2023
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…
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Controlling Shareholders
January 23, 2023
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…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 23, 2023
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…
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Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
January 23, 2023
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…
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Civil Procedure 2
January 20, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers what should, should not, and does happen when someone files…
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Civil Procedure 7
January 20, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers what should, should not, and does happen when someone files…
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Education Law Clinic: Individual Representation
January 20, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Special Education Advocacy for Students Impacted by Trauma (2 fall…
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Special Education Advocacy for Students Impacted by Trauma
January 20, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Clinic Component: Education Law Clinic: Individual Representation (3-5 fall clinical credits). This…
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Child Advocacy Clinic: System-Involved Youth
January 20, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Child Advocacy: System-Involved Youth Clinical Seminar (2 fall classroom credits).
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Child Advocacy: System-Involved Youth Clinical Seminar
January 20, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Child Advocacy Clinic: System-Involved Youth (4-5 fall clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically…
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Criminal Procedure: Adjudication
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The subject of this course is the criminal process “from bail…
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Environmental Law and Policy Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Environmental Law and Policy Clinical Course (1 fall classroom credit).
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Environmental Law and Policy Clinical Course
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Environmental Law and Policy Clinic (4-5 fall clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically…
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Commercial Law: Secured Transactions
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule
Grades will be based principally on the final… -
Legal Profession: Collaborative Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule
In addition to the final exam, students will… -
Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will explore the rules and the standards of professional…
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Forced Arbitration
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Over the past several decades, American workers, consumers, patients, and small businesses have increasingly found themselves subject to binding…
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Copyright and Trademark Litigation
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The class will analyze the strategic, practical and policy issues involved…
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Leading from the Middle
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group explores how to be an effective leader and an agent for positive change during the first…
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Legislation and Regulation 4
January 18, 2023
Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course is an introduction to lawmaking in the modern administrative state. It will…
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Administrative Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will study the law governing federal administrative agencies, and…
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Constitutional Law: Money and the Making of American Capitalism
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was…
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Space Law and Policy
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The goal of this course is to introduce students to the practice of space law and policy in the…
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HLAB: Spanish for Public Interest Lawyers
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: This reading group is by application and only open to members of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Please contact Nicole Summers with any questions.
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China and Hong Kong under the “One Country, Two Systems” Principle
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This Reading Group will study what the “One Country, Two Systems” principle means twenty-two years after Hong Kong’s handover…
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Contracts 4
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The body of law concerned with private agreements, including contract formation, interpretation, conditions,…
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Corporate Finance
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Students must have taken Analytical Methods, Introduction to Finance Concepts, or a similar introduction to basic present value calculations at HLS or elsewhere. Exam…
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Supreme Court and Appellate Advocacy Workshop
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: By Permission. Interested students should send a resume and a brief statement describing their interest in the course and in appellate advocacy to Jane…
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Advanced Interpretation: Law and Language
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Student performance will be assessed on the basis of class participation (10%) and a paper submitted at the… -
Protecting Consumer Data Privacy in an Era of Digital Risk
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Today’s digital economy relies on the collection, analysis, sale, and monetization of consumers’ personal data. Every time consumers pick…
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American Indian Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers the history and fundamentals of modern federal Indian…
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Trial Advocacy Workshop
January 18, 2023
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…
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Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Tools (2 fall classroom credits).
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Christian Legal Perspectives
January 18, 2023
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…
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Engaging China
January 18, 2023
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.