Graduate Program

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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…

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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:…

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
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…

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

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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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…