Interest Areas
Human Rights
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Transitional Justice: Dispute Systems Design and Durable Peace
January 24, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Paper in lieu of exam After periods of widespread conflict or repression, the regular justice system of a… -
Climate Lawyering
January 24, 2023
Drop Deadline: January 27, 2023 Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The threat of potentially catastrophic consequences from climate change due to increasing concentrations…
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Law, Human Rights, and Social Justice in Israel-Palestine
January 24, 2023
Prerequisite: This reading group is open to students who have completed an HLS course in human rights. Students who have a background in human rights…
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Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Against backdrops of extreme social inequality in Latin America, with poor responsiveness from executive and legislative branches of government,…
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Regional Human Rights Law: The Inter-American Perspective
January 23, 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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Competing Values: Freedom, Equality, Property, & Democracy
January 23, 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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Global Justice Workshop
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: There are no prerequisites for this workshop, but it is intended for students with a strong academic bent. Exam: No Exam This workshop will…
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Disability Rights Law
January 23, 2023
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…
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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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Disability Rights Law
January 23, 2023
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…
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New Technologies and the Law of War
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Changes in contemporary warfare are challenging the fundamental principles of its regulation and their application in practice. From the…
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Corporate Accountability in Armed Conflict
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: Public International Law, Law of War, International Criminal Law or International Human Rights Law Exam Type: No Exam This upper-level reading group will examine…
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International Human Rights
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home The course will introduce students to the concepts of human rights, within the system of public international law.
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International Criminal Law
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home International Criminal Law examines how the international legal system attempts to name and address the gravest crimes in…
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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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Pandemic Inequalities: Human Rights and Global Health
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The staggering toll of COVID-19 has laid bare and exacerbated structural injustices within and between countries, which call for…
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Contested Domains: Comparative and International Legal Struggles over Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None. Previous exposure to women’s/gender studies and/or international human rights law will be helpful. For additional background, the following books are on reserve:
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Comparative Law: Why Law? The Experience of China
January 20, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course uses the example of China as a springboard for asking fundamental questions about the nature of…
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Public International Law
January 20, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-Day Take Home This is an introductory course to public international law. The first part of the course examines the nature,…
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Strategic Leadership & Advanced Human Rights Advocacy
January 19, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Either the fall International Human Rights Clinic – 3L Leadership Training with Advanced Seminar or the fall Semester in Human Rights Clinic.
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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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Constitutional Law: First Amendment
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course is one of the basic courses in the field. It addresses the Freedom of Speech, the…
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Human Rights Advocacy
January 19, 2023
Required Clinic Component: International Human Rights Clinic (3-5 fall clinical credits). Students enrolled in the fall clinic must enroll in one of the fall Human…
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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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Re-imagining global order as Asia re-emerges
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The re-emergence of Asia is posing conceptual and practical challenges to understandings of and frameworks for global order that…
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Human Rights and International Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class This course examines critically what it means to embody human rights conceptions in law at the international level, and…
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Right-Respecting Tech Amidst Authoritarianism and Conflict
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam As state and non-state actors with authoritarian tendencies seek to gain and wield power, technology can be a weapon…
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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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Laws of War
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: Public International Law is recommended. Exam Type: One-Day Take-Home The law of war is one of the oldest branches of international law, but whether…
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Cyberlaw Clinic
January 19, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Cyberlaw Clinical Seminar (2 fall classroom credits). This clinic and…
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Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore the expanding practice around business and human rights, departing from its origins and moving into…
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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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Cyberlaw Clinic Seminar
January 19, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Cyberlaw Clinic (3-5 fall clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you in…
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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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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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Farmed Animal Law and Policy
January 19, 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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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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Engaging China
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This one unit course will examine the role that China has been playing in a world order in flux.
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Semester in Human Rights
January 19, 2023
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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Human Rights Litigation in U.S. Courts
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore the current landscape of human rights litigation in U.S. courts. The seminar will examine both…
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Transgender Law & Politics
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam An intensive examination of the legal, social, and political issues raised by the status and treatment of transgender persons,…
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Ethics, Economics and the Law
January 19, 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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Public International Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-Home This is an introductory course to public international law. The first part of the course provides a classical foundation…
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Tibet and China
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This Reading Group will focus on the question of and solutions for Tibet. It will look at the historical…
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Fairness and Privacy: Perspectives of Law and Probability
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: Admission is by permission of instructors; applicants should submit letters of inquiry with CVs (as a single PDF) to Ellie Benagh, ebenagh@law.harvard.edu by June…