Interest Areas
Gender and the Law
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Law and Neuroscience
February 2, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines cutting edge and even controversial linkages between law and neuroscience. We seek to highlight neuroscientific basis…
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Feminist Utopias
February 2, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In this reading group on Feminist Utopias, we explore literature, essays and history of women’s law reform movements through…
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Family Law
February 2, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type:No Exam We will study the increasingly complex “marriage system,” in which new forms of adult relationship join marriage in the legal…
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Critical Corporate Theory Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: By Permission. Students interested in applying to join the Lab should submit a short (300 word maximum) statement of interest to Professor Hanson. The…
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Financial and Legal Needs of Low and Moderate Income Households
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam The seminar will examine the opportunities and perils in consumer financial services available to low and moderate income households. We…
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Legal Profession Seminar
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the discussion, and…
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Competing Values: Freedom, Equality, Property, & Democracy
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will cover a variety of current and enduring questions involving fundamental issues of freedom, equality, property,…
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Regional Human Rights Law: The Inter-American Perspective
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: A prior or concurrent course or clinic in international human rights law is recommended but not required. Exam Type: No Exam During the last…
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Employment Law Clinic
January 30, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change (2 spring classroom…
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LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic
January 30, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Law (3 fall classroom…
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Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change
January 30, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Employment Law Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you in…
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Prerequisites: None. Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home This is one of the basic courses in American Constitutional Law. It focuses primarily on Equal Protection and Due…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…
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Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course offers an in-depth examination of the phenomenon of gender-motivated violence. Following a consideration of the prevalence and…
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Animal Law
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: There are no prerequisites, and 1L students are welcome in the class. Exam Type: One Day Take-Home Students will be evaluated on the basis…
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Title IX: Sports, Sex and Equality on Campus
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Title IX guarantees students the right to equal access to educational opportunities. In this seminar, we consider Title IX…
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Advanced Clinical Practice
January 30, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 3L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment…
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Advanced Readings in The Thirteenth Amendment
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course focuses on the Reconstruction Amendments, directing the core of its readings and class engagement to the Thirteenth…
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Current Topics in the Law of Work and Gender
January 30, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will explore the subjects of work and gender, their relationship, and how the law regulates their…
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Housing Law Clinical Workshop
January 30, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Housing Law Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…
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Immigration and Refugee Advocacy
January 30, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically…
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Housing Law Clinic
January 30, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Housing Law Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom credits). This clinic…
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International Human Rights Clinic
January 30, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component:Students in the spring clinic must enroll in either Human Rights…
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Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
January 30, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Immigration and Refugee Advocacy (2 spring classroom credits). This clinic…
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Law and Inequality Workshop
January 30, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In this course we will explore concepts of inequality from a range of disciplinary perspectives. We will also consider…
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Introduction to Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa
January 30, 2023
Required Clinic Component: International Human Rights Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). Students enrolled in the spring clinic must enroll in this seminar or the spring…
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Farmed Animal Law and Policy
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: There are no formal prerequisites for the class, although an environmental law or animal law survey course is recommended. Exam Type: No Exam This…
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Employment Discrimination
January 25, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class This course considers legal prohibitions on employment discrimination. It focuses on Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,…
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Legal History Workshop: Sex and the Law
January 25, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop, offered as a 1-credit course held over six sessions, aims to provide students with historical perspectives on…
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Comparative and International Legal Struggles Over Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam At the intersection of debates about religion, private morality and public policy, and sexual and reproductive health and rights…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…
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Housing Law Clinic
January 19, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Housing Law Clinical Seminar (2 fall classroom credits). This clinic…
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LGBTQ+ Advocacy Clinic
January 19, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Law (3 fall classroom…
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Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic
January 19, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Immigration and Refugee Advocacy (2 fall classroom credits). This clinic…
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International Human Rights Clinic
January 19, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Students in the fall clinic must enroll in one of…
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Housing Law Clinical Workshop
January 19, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Housing Law Clinic (3-5 fall clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…
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Employment Law Clinic
January 19, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Employment Law Workshop: Advocacy Skills (2 fall classroom credits). This…
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Sex Equality
January 19, 2023
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…
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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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Required Class Component: Strategic Leadership & Advanced Human Rights Advocacy (2 fall classroom credits). Once a student is accepted into this clinic, the Office of…
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Gender Identity, Sexual Orientation, and the Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course explores the ways in which the law intersects with gender identity and sexual orientation, examining this complex…
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Critical Corporate Theory Lab
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: By Permission. Students interested in applying to join the Lab should submit a short (300 word maximum) statement of interest to Professor Hanson. The…
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Immigration and Refugee Advocacy
January 19, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (3-5 fall clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically…
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Legal Innovation Through Design Thinking
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Students participating in this Legal Innovation Through Design Thinking seminar will have the opportunity to: work collaboratively in small…
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Power: Ethics, Means, Ends
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any-day take-home, or paper in lieu of exam option also available What is power? And what principles, if any, constrain it’s…
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Individuality?: Virginia Woolf vs. Social Justice and Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam We’ll read two great novels by Woolf published almost a century ago – Mrs. Dalloway and To The…
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Critical Race Theory
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will consider one of the newest intellectual currents within American Legal Theory – Critical Race Theory. Emerging…