Constitutional Law & Civil Rights

Prerequisites: None Exam: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will study the law governing federal administrative agencies, and…

Prerequisite: For JD students, this course is open to those who have completed Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment. For LLM students,…

Prerequisite: For JD students, this course is open to those who have completed 1L Constitutional Law or Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth…

Prerequisites: Constitutional Law Exam Type: No Exam Although the Supreme Court is ostensibly subject to the same Article III constraints as other federal…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines the role of the law and legal activism in perpetuating and alleviating racial inequality in the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course encompasses many aspects of disability rights, laws, and policies, with particular emphasis on the Americans with Disabilities…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course examines the current and future status of disability rights as a focus for both human rights theory…

Prerequisites: Introductory Constitutional Law. For LLM students, enrollment is by permission of the instructor. Exam Type: No Exam This is an advanced constitutional law seminar…

Prerequisites: For JD students, Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Constitutional Law: First Amendment, or Separation of Powers. For LLM students, enrollment is by permission of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Environmental justice has taken center stage as a social, political, and legal issue in recent years, and one cannot…

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Although there is no examination or lengthy paper required, I do ask each student to prepare one response…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The main impetus for the Constitution of 1787 was the perception, spelled out in the very first paragraph of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The main impetus for the Constitution of 1787 was the perception, spelled out in the very first paragraph of…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar interrogates the ways in which democracy, as practiced in the United States, continues to form. In doing…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course examines key intersections of race, politics, and law within a historical trajectory of evolving conceptions and associated…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course examines key intersections of race, politics, and law within a historical trajectory of evolving conceptions and associated…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar interrogates the ways in which democracy, as practiced in the United States, continues to form. In doing…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam A few short years ago, it would have been unthinkable for candidates for prosecutorial positions to run on a…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The subject of this course is the criminal process “from bail…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home The subject of this course is the criminal process “from bail to jail.” We will address some of the…

Prerequisite: Civil Procedure Exam Type: One-Day Take-home In developing rules for the enforcement of constitutional and statutory civil rights through civil actions, the Supreme Court…

Prerequisite: Civil Procedure Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule In developing rules for the enforcement of constitutional and statutory civil…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will examine various facets of the recent jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. We will consider a…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will examine various facets of the recent jurisprudence of the U.S. Supreme Court. We will consider a…

Prerequisite: Instructor permission is required for enrollment. Applicants should send a statement of interest and resume to Ellen Shapiro-Smith at eshapirosmith@law.harvard.edu. Deadline is October 30,…

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

Prerequisites: By Permission. Interested students should send a resume and a brief statement describing their interest in the course and in appellate advocacy to Jane…

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Student performance will be assessed on the basis of class participation (10%) and a paper submitted at the…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will examine civil rights law in the workplace, one of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers the history and fundamentals of modern federal Indian…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Tools (2 fall classroom credits).

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule

If class size permits, class participation will be considered in…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam

The requirement for the course are five six to eight page papers that react to readings and…

Prerequisite: This reading group is no longer by-permission. Enrollment is open during add/drop. Exam Type: No Exam In 2019, the number of Latinos reached a…

Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam Since the killing of Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014, there has been an…

Prerequisites: Constitutional Law: Separation of Powers, Federalism, and Fourteenth Amendment Exam Type: No Exam This course will explore the modern exercise of Presidential power in…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type Any Day Take-Home This course will examine civil rights law in the workplace, one of the most hotly litigated bodies of…

Required Clinic Component: Voting Rights Litigation and Advocacy Clinic (2-5 fall clinical credits). The clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will examine how laws impede or increase access to sexual…

Prerequisites: LLMs must have taken or be concurrently enrolled in Constitutional Law or Federal Courts. For students who may have taken applicable courses elsewhere, permission…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course considers, from the perspective of social and political history, American constitutional development from the Articles of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The seminar will examine the legal and constitutional history of late-colonial America and the early republic, an era that…

Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Supreme Court Litigation (1 winter classroom credit). This clinic…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home (open book), or 3 short papers throughout the term for lottery-selected group of students who apply. The relation…

Classroom: Lewis 200 Prerequisite: None Exam Type:Any Day Take-Home. Also with paper option by permission. The role of state attorneys general has dramatically expanded as…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Reconstruction was America’s second founding, and yet its most important ideals are lost to modern American courts. In this…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course examines the law governing police behavior, primarily by examining…