Fall 2020

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…

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,…

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…

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: No Exam This course encompasses many aspects of disability rights, laws, and policies, with particular emphasis on the Americans with Disabilities…

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…

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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Although there is no examination or lengthy paper required, I do ask each student to prepare one response…

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…

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…

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…

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: 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, an 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…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers what should, should not, and does happen when someone files…

Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers what should, should not, and does happen when someone files…

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…

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…

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).

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The subject of this course is the criminal process “from bail…

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).

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

Grades will be based principally on the final…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

In addition to the final exam, students will…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

Grades will be based principally on a final in-class…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will explore the rules and the standards of professional…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The class will analyze the strategic, practical and policy issues involved…

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…

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

Prerequisites: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will study the law governing federal administrative agencies, and…

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

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…

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.

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…

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

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…

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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Student performance will be assessed on the basis of class participation (10%) and a paper submitted at the…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers the history and fundamentals of modern federal Indian…

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…

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).

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…

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.