Winter 2021

This course is co-taught by Professors Esme Caramello, Tyler Giannini, Michael Gregory, and Dehlia Umunna. Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course is designed…

This course is co-taught by Professors Esme Caramello, Tyler Giannini, Michael Gregory, and Dehlia Umunna. Note: This course is restricted to first-year J.D. students only.

Required Clinic Component: Environmental Law and Policy Clinic (2 winter clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Environmental Law and Policy Clinical Course (1 winter classroom credit).

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

There will be no final exam or research paper – instead, students will write a 300-500 word…

This course is co-taught by Professor Ron Sullivan, Honorable Jay Blitzman, Mr. Thomas Newman, and Ms. Santha Sonenberg. Note: This course is restricted to first-year…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home This course provides a rigorous introduction to the field of international commercial arbitration, which has become the default…

Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam Since the killing of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, there has been an…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Supreme Court Litigation (1 winter classroom credit). This clinic…

Prerequisite: Corporations or permission to waive the requisite. Exam Type: In Class Successful M&A lawyers (and bankers) provide leadership and judgment in the…

Prerequisite: 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 The Appellate Courts and Advocacy Workshop combines a substantive review of key appellate litigation doctrines concerning appellate jurisdiction, standards…

Note: This course is restricted to first-year J.D. students only. The drop deadline for 1L January Experiential Term classes is December 4, 2020. Students may…

Prerequisites: Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment or Constitutional Law: First Amendment Exam Type: No Exam The contemporary debate over the proper…

Note: This course is restricted to first-year J.D. students only. The drop deadline for 1L January Experiential Term (JET) classes is December 4, 2020. Students…

Required Clinic Component: Supreme Court Litigation Clinic (2 winter clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

Each student will be responsible for one in-class presentation and two 6-8 page papers.
This survey…

Prerequisites: None. This course is designed for students with and without prior programming experience. Exam Type: No Exam This course is a variant of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This class covers selected topics in health care law, public health law, and (especially) bioethics. Among the topics that…

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…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project (1 fall classroom credit…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home

Class participation and successful completion of weekly assignments will count for a significant portion of the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-day takehome

In addition there will be a 1200-word paper due at the end of the workshop.
Ideal Discourse…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-home This course provides an introduction to quantitative concepts and methods that are increasingly important for lawyers. We will…

Note: This course is restricted to first-year J.D. students only. The drop deadline for 1L January Experiential Term classes is December 4, 2020. Students may…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

A paper is required.
This course explores the full range of federal regulation of products subject to…

Required Clinic Component: Criminal Justice Appellate Clinic (2 winter clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll…

Required Class Component: Criminal Justice Appellate Clinical Seminar (1 winter clinical credit). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically…

This course is co-taught by Sheila Heen, Deborah Goldstein, Alonzo Emery, Gillien Todd, and Lisa Dicker. Note: This course is restricted to first-year J.D. students…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The course will focus on the rapidly-changing legal system that is designed to regulate government ethics. The course will…

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course examines the challenges, successes, and opportunities in harnessing state and non-state efforts to promote international environmental…

Note: This course is restricted to first-year J.D. students only. The drop deadline for 1L January Experiential Term (JET) classes is December 4, 2020. Students…