Interest Areas
International, Comparative & Foreign Law
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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Corruption and Anticorruption: Selected Topics
January 31, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on the problem of corruption, principally public corruption (bribery, embezzlement, etc.) in developing and…
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Enrollment is limited to 12, and is by permission of the instructor. Interested students should email Professor Stephenson (mstephen@law.harvard.edu); the…
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Current Issues in Securities Regulation
January 31, 2023
Prerequisite: Corporations or permission of the instructor to waive the prerequisite. Exam Type: No Exam Students will read and discuss materials relating to current issues…
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Introduction to Islamic Law
January 27, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course is a broad introduction to Islamic law in historical and contemporary forms. We will first cover…
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Animal Law
January 27, 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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Designing a Central Bank Digital Currency for the United States
January 27, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Over the past decade, the emergence of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and Libra has put pressure on central banks around…
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Regulation of Financial Institutions
January 27, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-home
Students enrolled in the course will be expected to prepare one short research paper on a… -
The United States and Global Capital Markets Regulation: A Retrospective Of the Past Twenty Years
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will explore developments in international capital markets over the past two decades. We will read a…
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The Sugya in The Babylonian Talmud
January 25, 2023
Prerequisites: A certain amount of experience with the Talmud and ability to prepare the text in the original language, or, permission of the instructor. Exam…
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Evidence
January 25, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will examine the rules and principles of American evidence law,…
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Geoeconomics: Trade, Investment and Security
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In the post-Cold War period, economics and national security were relatively separate realms, both in policymaking and scholarship. But…
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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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International Intellectual Property Transactions
January 23, 2023
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…
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From Nuremberg to The Hague– Law, The Individual and the Group
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will explore the origins of modern international criminal law and looks at their impact on current directions.
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The International Law of the Sea
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course explores the international law of the sea, which is one of the most important and compelling areas…
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The International Law of the Sea
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course explores the international law of the sea, which is one of the most important and compelling areas…
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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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Climate Change and the Politics of International Law
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home As climate change has come to be seen as an urgent global problem, there has been a turn…
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International Taxation
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will cover the basic federal income tax concepts, policy and…
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International Taxation
January 23, 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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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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Foundations of International Arbitration: Theory and Practice
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Through a combination of lectures and in-class simulations, this course will (i) provide an overview of the foundational aspects…
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Foundations of International Arbitration: Theory and Practice (S01)
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Through a combination of lectures and in-class simulations, this course will (i) provide an overview of the foundational aspects…
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Foundations of International Arbitration: Theory and Practice (S02)
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Through a combination of lectures and in-class simulations, this course will (i) provide an overview of the foundational aspects…
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Foundations of International Arbitration: Theory and Practice
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Through a combination of lectures and in-class simulations, this course will (i) provide an overview of the foundational aspects…
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Corporate Criminal Investigations
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The criminal investigation and prosecution of corporate misconduct are among the most high profile areas of focus for federal…
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Corporate Criminal Investigations
January 23, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The criminal investigation and prosecution of corporate misconduct are among the most high profile areas of focus for federal…
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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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Controlling Shareholders
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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Comparative Law: Ancient Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule The focus of the class will be on comparing various ancient and…
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Cross Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: Corporations. For LLM students with applicable experience or courses, permission of the instructor to waive the requisite is required. Exam Type: No Exam In…
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Cross Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: Corporations. For LLM students with applicable experience or courses, permission of the instructor to waive the requisite is required. Exam Type: No Exam In…
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Classical Liberalism and the Rule of Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will be expected to complete two short papers in response to course readings, and a longer paper… -
Classical Liberalism and the Rule of Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will be expected to complete two short papers in response to course readings, and a longer paper… -
Legal Architecture of Globalization: Money, Debt, and Development
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule An integrated political economy now covers much of the globe. This course…
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Space Law and Policy
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The goal of this course is to introduce students to the practice of space law and policy in the…
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China and Hong Kong under the “One Country, Two Systems” Principle
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This Reading Group will study what the “One Country, Two Systems” principle means twenty-two years after Hong Kong’s handover…
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Advanced Antitrust
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: A prior antitrust or competition law course. Students with applicable experience or who have taken similar courses elsewhere may contact the instructor for a…
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American Indian Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course covers the history and fundamentals of modern federal Indian…
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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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International Commercial Arbitration
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home This course provides a rigorous introduction to the field of international commercial arbitration, which has become the default…
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Christian Legal Perspectives
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore the role of faith and Biblical Christianity in shaping contemporary legal approaches to a variety…
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Engaging China
January 18, 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.