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  • Banking Information for International Students

    September 1, 2022

    U.S. laws have made it difficult for individuals to open bank accounts in the United States without a personal appearance at the bank. The Cambridge…

  • On-Campus Employment

    September 1, 2022

    If you wish to have a part-time job and are prepared to work 6-8 hours per week in Cambridge during the school year, you can…

  • Harvard University Student Health Program (HUSHP) Rates

    September 1, 2022

    Effective August 1, 2023-July 31, 2024 Updated January 26, 2023 The Harvard University Student Health Program (HUSHP) has two parts that work together. HUHS Student…

  • Financial Aid and Billing

    September 1, 2022

    Funding your LL.M. Budget, Financial Aid, and Billing Information Congratulations on your admission to the LL.M. program at Harvard Law School! The following includes information…

  • LL.M.-J.D. Student Matching Program

    September 1, 2022

    2023-2024 The Graduate Program is pleased to sponsor an informal LL.M.-J.D. Student Matching Program. Participating students connect with each other across degree programs, providing a…

  • Harvard University ID Card Photo Submission Instructions

    September 1, 2022

    Incoming students receive official Harvard University ID (HUID) Card shortly after arrival on campus, following completion of mandatory check-in procedures. The HUID Card – which includes a photograph – …

  • Medical Forms and Submission Instructions

    August 30, 2022

    Deadline: July 31, 2023 All incoming students must submit completed Medical Forms and enter required information on their personalized pages on the HUHS Patient

  • Tips from Students – Getting Started

    August 30, 2022

    The standard of spoken English varies widely among LL.M.s. Most LL.M.s come from non-English speaking countries, so they will improve rapidly with practice after you…

  • Optional Summer Academic Programs and Visa Transfer

    August 30, 2022

    The academic environment at Harvard Law School is intense and students often report to us that they were surprised to find that the pace of…

  • Graduate Program Face Book Explanation and Sample Entries

    August 30, 2022

    2022-2023 The Graduate Program Face Book, a student directory, will contain a photograph and brief biographical information for each Graduate Program participant for the 2022-2023…

  • Incoming Student Checklist

    August 29, 2022

    Accept Offer of Admission Due May 1, 2023 To accept your offer of admission, please submit the 2023 LL.M. Program Admission Reply Form, available via…

  • Checklist of Deadlines

    August 29, 2022

    Use this list as a guide to help you keep track of the due dates for payments, forms, and other information.  All entries indicate the…

  • Graduate Program Handbook — The Graduate Program

    August 25, 2022

    Administration Faculty Director Gabriella Blum
    Vice Dean for the Graduate Program and International Legal Studies
    Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
    Faculty Director, Program…

  • Graduate Program Handbook — Academics: LL.M. Candidates

    August 25, 2022

    LL.M. Course and Writing Requirements, Recommendations, and Options Note: Information in this section relates specifically to requirements for HLS degree completion. It does not relate

  • Tiran R Bajgiran

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    Frank Knox Memorial Fellow
    tbajgiran@sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Law & Political Economy of Data Governance Fields of Research and Supervisors Law & Political Economy with Professor…

  • Ignacio Orellana García

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    iorellana at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Rethinking the Constitutional Architecture of Monetary Sovereignty My dissertation explores how constitutional law shapes monetary and financial systems.  My working…

  • Wei-An Tsai

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    wtsai at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Countering Authoritarian Influence by Building a Healthier Epistemic Infrastructure for Democracies: A New Paradigm of Media Governance for Taiwan My…

  • Amnon Morag

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    amorag [at] sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation The Law and Political Economy of Attention The attention of consumers and citizens is a prerequisite for all communications, choices…

  • Tom Zur

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    tzur at sjd.law.harvard.edu
    Résumé Dissertation Temporal Dynamics in Judicial Decision-Making Fields of Research and Supervisors Empirical studies of criminal law and…

  • Deyaa Alrwishdi

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    dalrwishdi@sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Toward a Legal Standard to Regulate Non-State Actors’ Exercise of Government Functions My dissertation focuses on regulating non-state actors’ (NSA) exercise of…

  • Nitsan Plitman

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    Graduate Fellow
    nplitman @ sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation The Role of Law in Religious Transformation: How Feminists Use State Law to Transform Their Religion In 2016 the

  • Vanessa Daza Castillo

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    vdazacastillo at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Gender, the Economic Household, and Social Movement Strategy in Two Colombian Environmental Conflicts: Studies in Law and Feminist Political Ecology…

  • Arvind Abraham

    August 18, 2022

    S.J.D. Candidate
    aabraham at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Church, Temple & State: Law and Religion in India & The US My dissertation is a comparative constitutional study of…

  • Yiran Zhang

    August 16, 2022

    Yiran Zhang
    S.J.D. Candidate

    yzhang at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Informality, Migration, and the Economic Household: Childcare and Related Work in China and the United States My dissertation examines the…

  • Yueduan Wang

    August 16, 2022

    Yueduan Wang
    S.J.D. 2021
    ywang at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Laboratories of Democracy and Authoritarianism: Subnational Experiments in the U.S., India, and China” This research compares the Chinese government’s approach…

  • Marzieh Tofighi Darian

    August 16, 2022

    Marzieh Tofighi Darian
    S.J.D. Candidate
    Graduate Program Fellow, Teaching Assistant for LL.M. Writing Workshop
    mtofighidarian at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Religion, Courts, and Constitutional Reasoning: The Efficacy of Constitutional Courts’…

  • Kibrom Teweldebirhan

    August 16, 2022

    Kibrom Teweldebirhan
    S.J.D. Candidate

    Graduate Student Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
    kteweldebirhan at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Labor after the Developmental State: Law, State, and Chinese State…

  • Oren Tamir

    August 16, 2022

    Oren Tamir
    Graduate Fellow & S.J.D. Candidate

    otamir at sjd.law.harvard.edu Further details can be found on Oren’s scholar @ Harvard web page: https://scholar.harvard.edu/orentamir/home Dissertation “Public Law: Formal and…

  • Gali Racabi

    August 16, 2022

    Gali Racabi
    S.J.D. Candidate
    gracabi at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Law and Power in Uber as a Workplace: How did the law affect the strategies of organizers, regulators, and drivers…

  • Bharath Palle

    August 16, 2022

    Bharath Palle
    S.J.D. Candidate

    Graduate Fellow, TA for Short Writing Projects
    bpalle at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Wesley Hohfeld and the struggle for a modern legal science” My doctoral dissertation…

  • Pascal McDougall

    August 16, 2022

    Pascal McDougall
    S.J.D. 2021

    pmcdougall at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Labor Unions, Firm Governance, and Their Macroeconomic Infrastructure: A Legal Institutionalist Revision of the Economics of Collective Bargaining” Fields of…

  • Robin Morgan

    August 16, 2022

    Robin Morgan
    S.J.D. Candidate

    rmorgan at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Creating a Coherent Legal Framework for the Taxation of Financial Instruments One of the overarching goals of many tax systems,…

  • Yu Luo

    August 16, 2022

    Yu Luo
    S.J.D. 2021

    Graduate Fellow, Harvard Law School
    yluo at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Alleviation and Gendered Intensification: Regulating Same-Sex Relations in Republican China, 1912–49 My dissertation surveys laws…

  • Evelyn Douek

    August 16, 2022

    evelyn douek
    S.J.D. Candidate

    edouek at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Digital Constitutionalism and Techlash Fields of Research and Supervisors Comparative Free Speech: Culture and Communications Technology with Professor Martha Minow, Harvard…

  • Elena Chachko

    August 16, 2022

    Elena Chachko
    S.J.D. 2022

    Lecturer on Law, Harvard Law School
    Contributor, Lawfare
    echachko at law.harvard.edu Dissertation Policy and Procedure in the Age of Individualized Foreign and Security Policy Fields…

  • Beatriz Botero Arcila

    August 16, 2022

    Beatriz Botero Arcila
    S.J.D. 2021
    Berkman Klein Fellow 2019-2020
    Harvard Law School, Graduate Program Fellow, TA LLM Writing Workshop
    bboteroarcila at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation City Power in the Digital Age:…

  • Elettra Bietti

    August 16, 2022

    ebietti [at] sjd.law.harvard.edu
    S.J.D. 2022 Joint Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU School of Law and Cornell Tech
    Affiliate, Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard
    Visiting Fellow,…

  • Kwabena Oteng Acheampong

    August 16, 2022

    Kwabena Oteng Acheampong
    S.J.D. 2021

    Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Advisor Dissertation Alliances and Contestations for Gas Governance in Ghana: A New Paradigm for Petroleum-Rich Economies in Africa International policy…

  • Current S.J.D. Candidates and Recent Graduates

    August 15, 2022

    Aboutalebi, ZahraAbraham, ArvindAlrwishdi, DeyaaBajgiran, Tiran RahimianBookman, SamCabrera Silva, AngelDas, SagnikDas, SannoyDaza Castillo, VanessaDeibler, SarahDuggal,

  • Doaa Abu Elyounes

    August 15, 2022

    Doaa Abu Elyounes
    S.J.D. 2021

    Graduate Program Fellow
    dabuelyounes at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Policing and Prosecution in the Era of Big Data Every object around us, from the cameras…

  • Dan Zhou

    August 15, 2022

    Dan Zhou
    S.J.D. Candidate

    dzhou at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Advocacy at the Margins: Public Interest Lawyering in China Fields of Research and Supervisors Chinese Law with Professor William P.

  • Guanchi Zhang

    August 15, 2022

    Guanchi Zhang
    S.J.D. Candidate

    gzhang at sjd.law.harvard.edu
    Further details can be found on https://scholar.harvard.edu/guanchizhang Dissertation Making Borderless City: The Politics of Local Boundaries Change in Economic Transformation My dissertation…

  • Man Ha (M.H.) Tse

    August 15, 2022

    Man Ha Tse
    S.J.D. Candidate

    mtse at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Predation, Property, & Superiority My dissertation project is an account of the legal architecture of human systems of extractive…

  • Claudia Veronica Torres Patino

    August 15, 2022

    Claudia Veronica Torres Patino
    S.J.D. Candidate

    Research Assistant, CIDE
    ctorrespatino at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Mexican Prostitution as Strategy and Affect: A Historical and Contemporary Socio-Legal Account This doctorate project…

  • Cem Tecimer

    August 15, 2022

    Cem Tecimer
    S.J.D. Candidate

    ctecimer at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Supreme Court Precedents at Home and Abroad: The Transnational Journey of Brown Fields of Research and Supervisors Theocratic Constitutionalism with…

  • Zhong Xing (“Zhong”) Tan

    August 15, 2022

    Zhong Xing (“Zhong”) Tan
    S.J.D. Candidate

    Assistant Professor, Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore
    ztan at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Spheres of Interpersonal Justice: A Framework for Private…

  • Shelly Simana

    August 15, 2022

    Shelly Simana
    S.J.D. Candidate

    ssimana at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Toward a Relational Approach for Genome Governance One of the most ambitious scientific undertakings to unlock the human “genetic…

  • Shani Shisha

    August 15, 2022

    Shani Shisha
    S.J.D. Candidate
    sshisha at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation History, Custom, and Procedure: Essays on Copyright Policy Fields of Research and Supervisors Copyright Law and Theory with Professor…

  • Eliel Francisco Sanchez Acevedo

    August 15, 2022

    Eliel Francisco Sanchez Acevedo
    S.J.D. Candidate

    esanchez at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Racial Performance under Constitutional Law in Mexico With this dissertation, I will map and interpret the strategic…

  • Guy Rubinstein

    August 15, 2022

    Guy Rubinstein
    S.J.D. Candidate

    Graduate Fellow, LL.M. Advisor and Teaching Fellow, Legal Research, Writing, and Analysis I
    grubinstein at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Essays on Remedies for Discrimination in…