Interest Areas
Disciplinary Perspectives & Law
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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Corruption and Anticorruption: Selected Topics
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on the problem of corruption, principally public corruption (bribery, embezzlement, etc.) in developing and…
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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The Sugya in The Babylonian Talmud
January 25, 2023
Prerequisites: A certain amount of experience with the Talmud and ability to prepare the text in the original language, or, permission of the instructor. Exam…
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Geoeconomics: Trade, Investment and Security
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In the post-Cold War period, economics and national security were relatively separate realms, both in policymaking and scholarship. But…
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Disability, Human Rights, and Development
January 23, 2023
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…
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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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Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam In this reading group, we will explore historic and ongoing legal and policy debates about the fuels that power…
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Creating Electricity in the U.S.: Exploring the Tradeoffs
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam In this reading group, we will explore historic and ongoing legal and policy debates about the fuels that power…
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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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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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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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Be Careful What You Wish For
January 20, 2023
Prerequisites: Students who have completed either of the following Spring 2021 reading groups, Evaluating Criminal Justice Reform or Legal Policies, Randomized Control Trials, and Ethics,…
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Legal Policies, Randomized Control Trials, and Ethics
January 20, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The legal profession is uniquely disdainful of evidence-based thinking. Nowhere is this disdain more overt than in the profession’s…
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Restorative and Transformative Justice
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will discuss the theory behind restorative justice and examine current experiments in the practice of restorative justice,…
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Restorative and Transformative Justice
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will discuss the theory behind restorative justice and examine current experiments in the practice of restorative justice,…
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Diversity and Dispute Resolution
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
There will be no final exam or research paper – instead, students will write a 300-500… -
Mediation
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The primary focus of this experiential learning course is on developing mediation skills — as a mediator and also…
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Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore how the adaptive leadership model developed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government can be applied…
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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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Leading from the Middle
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This offering explores how to be an effective leader and an agent for positive change during the first 10-15…
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Ethics, Economics and the Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Explores controversies about the use of markets and market reasoning in areas such as organ sales, procreation, environmental regulation,…
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Law and Neuroscience
January 18, 2023
Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines cutting edge and even controversial linkages between law and neuroscience. We seek to highlight neuroscientific basis for behavior…
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Christian Legal Perspectives
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore the role of faith and Biblical Christianity in shaping contemporary legal approaches to a variety…
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Capitalism in Crisis
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam After the fall of the Soviet Union, capitalism appeared triumphant. Commentators equated free markets with democracy and lauded the…
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Algorithms, Rights, and Responsibilities
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will address two pressing questions in the world of algorithms and the law: who holds the…
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Jurisprudence
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home Jurisprudence is the silent and controlling partner in every judge’s and every lawyer’s reasoning about law. A judge,…
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The Role of the State Attorney General
January 18, 2023
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…
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Negotiation Workshop
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam *Cross-Registrants: Please note that cross-registrants interested in taking the Workshop must participate in the online application process for the…
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Applied Quantitative Analysis for Lawyers
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Empirical methods are increasingly used in legal research and practice. This course covers a broad range of topics, including…
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Character and Self in the Modernist Novel
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In self-consciously reacting against the 19th century Realist novel, the Modernist authors of the the 1920s and 1930s experimented…
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The Rule and The Exception
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam What is required for you to be treated as an individual by the law? When should we insist that…
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Roe at 50
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam On the cusp of the fiftieth anniversary of Roe v. Wade, abortion law casts a particularly long shadow over…
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Power: Ethics, Means, Ends
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any-day take-home
Paper option available What is power? And what principles, if any, constrain it’s exercise? This multidisciplinary course considers… -
Criminal Prosecution Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Open to 3Ls only Required Class Component: Prosecution Clinical Seminar (2 fall classroom…
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Law and Economics
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will provide students with exposure to ongoing research in the economic analysis of law. At most of…
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Law and Politics Workshop
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop is devoted to learning about, discussing, and critically evaluating new scholarly work on law and politics. A…
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Empirical Law and Economics
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will consider a range of issues in empirical law and economics. Empirical methods are increasingly used in…
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Talmud for All: Family Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In his class we will engage in close reading of sections of the Babylonian Talmud that deal (broadly speaking)…
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Seeing Criminal (In)Justice: Examining the Interplay of Visual Media, Storytelling and Criminal Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam As America reckons with the profound injustices of mass incarceration, this course looks at the narratives that drive our…