Intellectual Property, Cyberlaw and Technology, and Arts & Entertainment

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This three-credit course surveys the efforts of city officials around the world as they use technology to solve challenging…

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The course will provide an introduction and overview to questions of communications and Internet law and policy. The intensive…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal rules in the United States and other countries…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-home This course will introduce students to the role that written, oral, and multi-media communications play in the development of…

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…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home International IP transactions are extremely common in the global knowledge-based and data-driven economy. The legal rules that govern…

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…

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…

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:…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This experiential course is taught by Nana Sarian, who has served as General Counsel of Stella McCartney since 2012,…

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…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule The class examines how the First Amendment, in combination with tort law,…

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…

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…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course examines the law of copyright and its…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Artificial intelligence and autonomous systems have the ability to transform medical practice — and the legal regimes that govern…

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…

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…

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course covers legal regulation of advertising in the United States, with…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students should complete every reading assignment and participate in class discussions.
Property rights, understood broadly, are entitlements to…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will explore copyright law and policy. Approximately two thirds of…

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…

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…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Roughly half of this course will examine and assess the legal…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will introduce students to the federal Lanham Act and related…

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…

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…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class The class will analyze the strategic, practical and policy issues involved with copyright and trademark litigation from the…

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…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course examines the law of copyright and its role within the overall framework of intellectual…

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.

Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home

Class participation and successful completion of weekly assignments will count for a significant portion of the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule The class will analyze the strategic, practical and policy issues involved…

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…