Graduate Program

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…

Accept Offer of Admission Due May 1, 2025 To accept your offer of admission, please submit the 2025 LL.M. Program Admission Reply Form, available via…

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…

The Graduate Program is the division of Harvard Law School responsible for the Master of Laws (LL.M.) and the Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degrees,…

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
Coordinator | Harvard Empirical Legal Studies
tbajgiran@sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Law & Political Economy of Algorithms Fields of Research…

S.J.D. Candidate
iorellanagarci 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…

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…

S.J.D. Candidate
tzur at sjd.law.harvard.edu
Résumé Dissertation Temporal Dynamics in Judicial Decision-Making Fields of Research and Supervisors Additional Research Interests Education Academic Appointments 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…

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…

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…

Arvind Kurian Abraham S.J.D. Candidate
aabraham at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation Resurveying the Wall of Separation of Church and State My research focuses on the historical development…

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…

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…

Marzieh Tofighi Darian
S.J.D. 2022
mtofighidarian at sjd.law.harvard.edu Sharmin and Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies, Princeton University Dissertation “Religion, Courts,…

Kibrom Teweldebirhan
S.J.D. 2022
Graduate Student Fellow, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
kteweldebirhan at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Labor after the Developmental State: Law, State,…

Oren Tamir
Graduate Fellow & S.J.D. 2022
otamir at sjd.law.harvard.edu Dissertation “Public Law: Formal and Informal” Fields of Research and Supervisors Constitutional and administrative law with…

Gali Racabi
S.J.D. 2022
gracabi at sjd.law.harvard.edu Cornell University School of Industrial & Labor Relations and Cornell Law School Dissertation Law and Power in Uber…

Bharath Palle
S.J.D. 2022
bpalle at sjd.law.harvard.edu Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Dissertation “Wesley Hohfeld and the struggle for a modern legal science”…

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”…