Spring 2021

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The primary focus of this experiential learning course is on developing mediation skills — as a mediator and also…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course focuses on key transactions in the entertainment industry. We will use case studies based on real-world deals…

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Students will be expected to complete two short papers in response to course readings, and a longer paper…

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…

Prerequisites: Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment Exam Type: No Exam This course will explore the modern exercise of Presidential power in…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Cybersecurity and cyber conflict pose unique legal problems for governments, companies and citizens. The way those problems are resolved…

Required Clinic Component: Judicial Process in Trial Courts Clinic (2-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Judicial Process in Trial Courts (2 spring classroom credits). This…

Open to 3Ls only Required Clinic Component: ITA Prosecution Perspectives (5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Open to 3Ls only Required Class Component: ITA: Prosecution Perspectives (3 spring classroom…

Prerequisites: Civil Procedure or faculty permission to waive the prerequisite is required. Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change (2 spring classroom…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will examine civil rights law in the workplace, one of…

Required Clinic Component: Employment Law Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you in…

Enrollment in this clinic will not fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: This clinic requires that students have taken at least…

Prerequisites: The course assumes Taxation as a pre-requisite. Taxation of Business Corporations is helpful if taken at least concurrently, but not required. Exam Type: Please…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam While armed conflict inflicts much publicized suffering on individuals and their families, the scourge of war reaches has a…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Explores controversies about the use of markets and market reasoning in areas such as organ sales, procreation, environmental regulation,…

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…

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 This workshop is devoted to learning about, discussing, and critically evaluating new scholarly work on law and politics. A…

Required Clinic Component: Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic (2-5 spring clinical credits). The clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Refugees are among the most vulnerable populations in our legal system today and are among the most challenging to…

Required Clinic Component: Litigating in the Family Courts: Family/Domestic Violence Law Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Litigating in Family Courts: Family/Domestic Violence Law Clinical Seminar…

Required Clinic Component: International Human Rights Clinic (3-5 fall clinical credits). Clinical seminar enrollment occurs once a student has enrolled in the spring clinic and…

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…

Prerequisite: Admission is by application via email to Susannah Barton Tobin at stobin@law.harvard.edu by October 31, 2020. Please include a paragraph expressing your interest in…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule. Also with paper option by permission. The role of state attorneys general…

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…

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The course will require one short paper (3-4 pages) and one research paper about a topic of the…

Required Clinic Component: International Human Rights Clinic (3-5 fall clinical credits). Clinical seminar enrollment occurs once a student has enrolled in the spring clinic and…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Mediation Clinical Seminar (1 spring classroom credit). This clinic…

Required Clinic Component: Harvard Mediation Clinic (1 spring clinical credit). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Housing Law Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom credits). This clinic…

Required Clinic Component: Housing Law Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…

Prerequisites: For JD students, completion of First Year Legal Research and Writing. For LLM students, completion of LRWA I is required and an enrollment…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course deals with strategies for changing law and policy, focusing on child welfare (abuse and neglect, foster care,…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Child Advocacy: Child Welfare, Education & Juvenile Justice Clinical Seminar…

Required Clinic Component: Child Advocacy Clinic: Child Welfare, Education & Juvenile Justice, either during the winter-spring (2 winter clinical credits + 4-5 spring clinical credits)…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will first put 20th century sentencing law in sociological and historical context. It will examine the history,…

Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines cutting edge and even controversial linkages between law and neuroscience. We seek to highlight neuroscientific basis for behavior…

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Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the…

Required Clinic Component: Cyberlaw Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you in…

Taught by Lisa Dicker Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam After periods of widespread conflict or repression, the regular justice system of a country is…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Law (2 fall classroom…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…

Prerequisites: Admission is by permission only and interested students should send a resume and a cover letter to the instructor at vbosiljevac@law.harvard.edu. The deadline for…