Interest Areas
Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw and Technology, and Arts & Entertainment
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Media Images & The Law: Contesting Media in the Modern Era
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar examines mass media depictions and imaging in our increasingly-tumultuous modern era. It situates this loaded imaging process…
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Copyright and Trademark Litigation
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class The class will analyze the strategic, practical and policy issues involved with copyright and trademark litigation from the…
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Copyright and Trademark Litigation
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The class will analyze the strategic, practical and policy issues involved…
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Music and Digital Media
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: A prior course or other background in copyright law would be useful but is not required. Exam Type: No Exam This course explores a…
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Protecting Consumer Data Privacy in an Era of Digital Risk
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Today’s digital economy relies on the collection, analysis, sale, and monetization of consumers’ personal data. Every time consumers pick…
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Advertising Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course covers legal regulation of advertising in the United States, with some comparison to other countries. Private…
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Copyright
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course examines the law of copyright and its role within the overall framework of intellectual…
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Trademark and Unfair Competition
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course will introduce students to the federal Lanham Act and related common law doctrines designed to protect…
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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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Teaching Copyright
January 18, 2023
This course has an early drop deadline of December 1. Prerequisites: By permission. Teaching Copyright is open to all Harvard Law School students who either…
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Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course focuses on key transactions in the entertainment industry. We will use case studies based on real-world deals…
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Legal Problems in Cybersecurity and Cyber Conflict
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Cybersecurity and cyber conflict pose unique legal problems for governments, companies and citizens. The way those problems are resolved…
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Access to Justice in the Digital World
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group explores the impact of new and emerging digital technologies on the longstanding barriers that low-income and…
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Autonomous Vehicles and the Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated excitement and anxiety about the impact of autonomous systems on our society.
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Design for Democratic Discourse
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Admission to the seminar is by permission of the instructors. Students should complete the application at this link: https://brk.mn/ZittrainRoyApp. Students are also strongly…
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Counseling and Legal Strategy in the Digital Age
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course explores the complex challenges that entrepreneurs, businesses, NGOs, and other organizations face when trying to address legal…
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Governing Digital Technology
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: This is a JD 1L only offering. Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course offers a rigorous introduction…
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EU Tech Regulation
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites None Exam Type: No Exam The European Union has been at the forefront of regulating the digital economy, leveraging its antitrust laws against big…
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Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course focuses on key transactions in the entertainment industry. We will use case studies based on real-world deals…
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Sports Law Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will not fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: This clinic requires that students have taken at least…
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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…
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Cyberlaw Clinic
January 18, 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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Digital Governance: Privacy and Technology Trade-Offs
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam. Grading will be based 50% on class participation and 50% on 6 short thought papers written and submitted over…
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Copyright
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course will explore copyright law and policy. Approximately two thirds of the class time and readings will be…
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Fashion Law Lab
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This experiential course meets January 4 to 14, 2022 and is taught by Nana Sarian, who served as General…
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The Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will examine key readings and projects surrounding the ethics and governance of the opaque complex adaptive…
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Comparative Digital Privacy (S01)
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Digital privacy has become a major issue for Internet users, technology companies, online businesses, researchers, and policy-makers around the…
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Property in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students should complete every reading assignment and participate in class discussions. Property rights, understood broadly, are entitlements to… -
Cyberlaw Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Cyberlaw Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom credits). This clinic and…
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Cyberlaw Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Cyberlaw Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom credits). This clinic and…
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Music and Digital Media
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: A prior course or other background in copyright law would be useful but is not required. Exam Type: No Exam This course explores a…
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Prerequisites: Faculty permission. Interested students should submit a one-paragraph statement of interest briefly describing their background and reason for wanting to take the course. Please…
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Teaching Copyright
January 18, 2023
This course has an early drop deadline of December 1. Prerequisites: By permission. Teaching Copyright is open to all Harvard Law School students who either…
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Cyberlaw Clinic Seminar
January 18, 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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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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Youth, Privacy, and Digital Citizenship
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In spring 2020-spring 2021, the United States ran a nationwide, real-time, high-stakes experiment to see what happened when you…
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Access to Justice in the Digital World
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group explores the impact of new and emerging digital technologies on the longstanding barriers that low-income and…
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Fairness and Privacy: Perspectives of Law and Probability
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: Admission is by permission of instructors; applicants should submit letters of inquiry with CVs to Joseph Cunningham (jcunningham@law.harvard.edu) by April 28, 2020. Exam Type:…
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Cyberlaw Clinic
January 18, 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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Sports and the Law: Examining the Legal History and Evolution of America’s Three “Major League” Sports: MLB, NFL and NBA
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Class participation and successful completion of weekly assignments will count for…
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Sports Law Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will not fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: This clinic requires that students have taken at least…
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Cyberlaw Clinic Seminar
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Cyberlaw Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you in…
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Mass Media Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule The class examines how the First Amendment, in combination with tort law,…
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Cyberlaw Clinic Seminar
January 18, 2023
Classroom: Lewis 200 Required Clinic Component: Cyberlaw Clinic (3-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically…
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Trademark and Unfair Competition
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will introduce students to the federal Lanham Act and related…
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Cyberlaw Clinic Seminar
January 18, 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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Sports and the Law: Representing the Professional Athlete
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home
Class participation and successful completion of weekly assignments will count for a significant portion of the…