Interest Areas
Business Organization, Commercial Law, and Finance
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Securities Regulation
January 27, 2023
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…
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Securities Regulation
January 27, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course is designed to offer an overview of the work of…
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The United States and Global Capital Markets Regulation: A Retrospective Of the Past Twenty Years
January 27, 2023
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…
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Hedge and Private Equity Funds: Law and Policy
January 24, 2023
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…
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Consumer Financial Market Regulation
January 23, 2023
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…
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International Taxation
January 23, 2023
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…
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ERISA
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: Familiarity with one or more of: trusts & estates, federal income tax, corporations – is recommended but not required. Exam Type: Any Day Take-home…
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ERISA
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: Familiarity with one or more of: trusts & estates, federal income tax, corporations – is recommended but not required. Exam Type: Please refer to…
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Investments Workshop: Public and Private Equity
January 23, 2023
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…
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Valuing and Modeling M&A and LBOs
January 23, 2023
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…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 23, 2023
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…
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Stakeholder Capitalism
January 23, 2023
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…
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Empirical Law and Finance
January 23, 2023
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…
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Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
January 23, 2023
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…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 23, 2023
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…
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Controlling Shareholders
January 23, 2023
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…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 23, 2023
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…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 23, 2023
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…
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Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
January 23, 2023
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…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 23, 2023
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…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 23, 2023
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…
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Commercial Law: Secured Transactions
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule
Grades will be based principally on the final… -
Commercial Law: Secured Transactions
January 18, 2023
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…
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Startup Entrepreneurship and Innovations in Legal Technology
January 18, 2023
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.
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Structuring Deals: Uncovering Tax and Structuring Strategies in M&A and other Public Transactions
January 18, 2023
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…
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Decoding the Deal Prospectus: Uncovering Tax and Structuring Strategies in M&A and other Public Transactions
January 18, 2023
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…
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Corporate Reorganization
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
Grades are determined by 20-page papers on approved topics. Corporate Reorganization identifies the dominant causes of… -
Corporate Reorganization
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: Bankruptcy or permission from the instructor to waive the prerequisite Exam Type: No Exam
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The Power of Principled Leadership: A Practical Approach
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam Can professional success be achieved without “playing politics” or “behaving politically”? Can behaving ethically, with integrity & principle, be a…
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Advanced Corporate Transactions
January 18, 2023
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…
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Advanced Corporate Transactions
January 18, 2023
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…
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Management and Leadership Skills for Lawyers
January 18, 2023
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…
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Cross Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process
January 18, 2023
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…
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Cross Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process
January 18, 2023
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…
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Constitutional Law: Money and the Making of American Capitalism
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was…
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Law and Business
January 18, 2023
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…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course surveys the role of legal controls on business organizations with…
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Corporate Finance
January 18, 2023
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…
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Advanced Antitrust
January 18, 2023
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…
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International Commercial Arbitration
January 18, 2023
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…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None, however, familiarity with financial and economic concepts is encouraged. Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule The course will…
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Corporate Governance: The Short-Termism Problem
January 18, 2023
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…
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Corporations
January 18, 2023
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…
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Trusts and Estates
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course examines freedom of disposition in American succession law by way…
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Introduction to Accounting 3-Week Section
January 18, 2023
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…
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Workshop on Law and Political Economy
January 18, 2023
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…
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Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Seminar
January 18, 2023
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…