Business Organization, Commercial Law, and Finance

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class In addition to an in-class examination, students will be asked to participate in blog postings on a range of…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course is designed to offer an overview of the work of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will explore developments in international capital markets over the past two decades. We will read a…

Prerequisite: None required; preferred that students have already completed Corporations or at a minimum are taking contemporaneously with this course. Exam: Please refer to the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Consumers use bank accounts, debit and credit cards, check cashing services and payment apps to receive, store, spend and…

Prerequisites: Taxation Exam Type: In Class This course will cover the basic federal income tax concepts, policy and law relating to taxation of foreign persons…

Prerequisites: Familiarity with one or more of: trusts & estates, federal income tax, corporations – is recommended but not required. Exam Type: Any Day Take-home…

Prerequisites: Familiarity with one or more of: trusts & estates, federal income tax, corporations – is recommended but not required. Exam Type: Please refer to…

Prerequisites: Sound understanding of financial statements and valuation topics/models. Admission is by permission only and interested students should send a resume and a cover letter…

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken or are taking concurrently the Corporations course…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Empirical tools have been increasingly used in litigation, regulation, and policymaking in corporate law, corporate governance, and securities regulation…

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken (or are taking concurrently) the Corporations course…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken or are taking concurrently the Corporations course…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for the course. However, it is recommended that students either (a) have taken (or are taking concurrently) the Corporations course…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, an Andrew E. Furer Professor…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule

Grades will be based principally on the final…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class Grades will be based principally on the final exam, but also, to some extent, on class participation or assigned…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will explore the journey of entrepreneurship via a combination of both case studies and supplemental readings.

Prerequisites: Taxation and Taxation of Business Corporations. Exam Type: One-Day Take Home The course will explore how Federal income tax considerations and related structuring considerations…

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

Grades are determined by 20-page papers on approved topics.
Corporate Reorganization identifies the dominant causes of…

Prerequisite: Bankruptcy or permission from the instructor to waive the prerequisite Exam Type: No Exam

Grades are determined by 20-page papers on approved…

Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam Can professional success be achieved without “playing politics” or “behaving politically”? Can behaving ethically, with integrity & principle, be a…

Prerequisites: Registration for the course has two prerequisites: (1) Students must have taken Corporations or be taking it concurrently with ACT. (2) In addition, a…

Prerequisites: Registration for the course has two prerequisites: (1) Students must have taken Corporations or be taking it concurrently with ACT. (2) In addition, a…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This Reading Group will study the practical, policy and ethical dimensions of management in various organizational settings, with a…

Prerequisite: Corporations. For LLM students with applicable experience or courses, permission of the instructor to waive the requisite is required. Exam Type: No Exam In…

Prerequisite: Corporations. For LLM students with applicable experience or courses, permission of the instructor to waive the requisite is required. Exam Type: No Exam In…

Prerequisite: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was…

Prerequisite: This seminar is only open to current JD/MBA third- and fourth-year students. Exam Type: No Exam The credit breakdown for this seminar is as…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course surveys the role of legal controls on business organizations with…

Prerequisites: Students must have taken Analytical Methods, Introduction to Finance Concepts, or a similar introduction to basic present value calculations at HLS or elsewhere. Exam…

Prerequisites: A prior antitrust or competition law course. Students with applicable experience or who have taken similar courses elsewhere may contact the instructor for a…

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, however, familiarity with financial and economic concepts is encouraged. Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule The course will…

Prerequisite: Corporations, as pre-requisite or co-requisite, or sufficient background with permission of the instructor. Exam Type: No Exam In this course, students will examine writings…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course surveys the law providing ground rules for the organization, internal governance, and financing of corporations. Topics include…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course examines freedom of disposition in American succession law by way…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This 1-credit module is designed to help students develop an understanding of…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop is devoted to reading and discussing new scholarly work on law and political economy. Outside speakers and…

Required Clinic Component: Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinic (3-5 fall clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will…