Interest Areas
Finance, Accounting, and Strategy
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International Taxation
February 2, 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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Hedge and Private Equity Funds: Law and Policy
February 2, 2023
Prerequisite: None required; preferred that students have already completed Corporations or at a minimum are taking contemporaneously with this course. Exam: Last Class Take-home This…
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Failed Corporations: A Post-Mortem
February 2, 2023
Prerequisites: Corporations is a required prerequisite and a course in bankruptcy or corporate reorganizations will be helpful, although not required. LLM students with experience in…
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Corporate Finance
February 2, 2023
Prerequisites: No prerequisites, but a corporations course is strongly advised. Exam Type: In Class This course addresses the fundamentals of financial economics and reviews applications…
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Introduction to Accounting 3-Week Section
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This 1-credit spring course is designed to help students develop an understanding of the accounting information presented in corporate…
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Analytical Methods for Lawyers
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None. This course is designed to be fully accessible to those with no prior quantitative training or background in the subjects covered. Exam Type:…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor…
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Deals
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: For JD students, you must have completed Corporations prior to enrolling in this course. For LLM students, Corporations or its equivalent is a prerequisite.
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Bankruptcy
January 30, 2023
Pre/Corequisite: Students without prior basic exposure to business should normally take Corporations concurrently. Exam Type: In Class This is a comprehensive survey of the…
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Securities Regulation
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: Most students find it helpful to have completed or to take concurrently a course in Corporations before taking Securities Regulation. Exam Type: In Class…
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Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar is co-taught by Professors Bebchuk, Kaplow, Spier, Spamann and Prof. Oliver Hart, the Andrew E. Furer Professor…
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Federal Budget Policy
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students enrolled in the course will be expected to submit a series of reaction papers to… -
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… -
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 at…
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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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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 the fields of corporate law, corporate governance,…
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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, the Andrew E. Furer Professor…
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Blockchain, Cryptocurrency and Fintech
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class We will explore in this course the law and policy issues that are raised by the use of the…
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Introduction to Accounting
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This 1-credit fall course is designed to help students develop an understanding of the accounting information presented in…
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Trusts and Estates
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class This course examines freedom of disposition in American succession law by way of: (a) intestate succession; (b) wills (including…
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Introduction to Finance Concepts 4-Day Section
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This 1-unit course is designed to provide students with no prior coursework in finance an introduction to core concepts…
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ESG: Corporate Ethics in the 21st Century
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home, Paper Option Available This course will investigate the rise of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) as a dominant investment…
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Fundamentals of Statistical Analysis
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: No prerequisites, prior empirical or software background is not required for this course. This class can be taken as part of the HLS empirical…
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Business Strategy for Lawyers
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: Students should have some exposure to microeconomics or a related discipline (e.g., Analytical Methods, Law & Economics, an undergraduate class in economics, finance, etc.).
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Corporate Finance
January 19, 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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Deals
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: For JD students, this course is open to those who have taken, or are concurrently taking, Corporations. For LLM students, Corporations must be taken…
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Sports Law: Advanced Contract Drafting
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-home This course will provide students the opportunity to negotiate and draft agreements that a lawyer advising a…
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Nuts and Bolts of Forming a Venture Capital Fund
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course introduces students to the relationship between limited partner (LP) investors and the general partner (GP) managers of…
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Empirical Methods and Data Analysis for Lawyers
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam Empirical data, and statistical and empirical tools and concepts, are increasingly used in litigation, regulation, and legal policymaking and research.
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Tax Law, Finance, and Strategic Planning
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: Taxation Exam Type: No Exam This course develops tools for understanding and evaluating the effect tax laws have on strategic planning in both business…
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Bankruptcy
January 19, 2023
Co-requisite: Students without prior basic exposure to business should normally take Corporations concurrently. Exam Type: In Class This basic bankruptcy course covers the major…