International, Comparative & Foreign Law

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will write response papers analyzing the reading materials. The professor will provide feedback and revision will…

Prerequisites: Property Exam Type: No Exam Many first-year property courses begin with Pierson v. Post, 3 Cai. R. 175, 2 Am. Dec. 264 (N.Y. 1805).

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam

Students will write one short and one longer paper.
The interconnected and frictionless world of the internet…

Pre/Co-requisites: Concurrent registration in Continental Legal History, or equivalent preparation is required, as is the ability to read simple Latin prose.

Required Clinic Component: International Human Rights Clinic (3-5 fall clinical credits). Students enrolled in the fall clinic must enroll in either this clinical seminar or…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will examine how visual representations affect the theory and practice of human rights advocacy and humanitarian…

Prerequisite: This seminar will be by permission of the instructor, who strongly prefers that students have a background in advanced study of Jewish legal material.

Prerequisites: None. However, a working knowledge of U.S. criminal law is assumed. Exam Type: No Exam The Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ) is often…

Prerequisites None Exam Type: No Exam Two international legal regimes seem to be at war with each other – the international investment arbitration regime that…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Lawyers are often called upon to help design systems for managing and/or resolving conflicts that support or supplant existing…

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…

Prerequisite: This seminar will be by permission of the instructor, who strongly prefers that students have a background in advanced study of Jewish legal material.

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Midterm and final, administered through HKS This course will examine the interplay of geopolitics and human rights, with a focus on…

Prerequisite: This seminar will be by permission of the instructor, who strongly prefers that students have a background in advanced study of Jewish legal material.

Prerequisites: None Note: Students who have taken U.S. Antitrust Law may not take this course because it duplicates the U.S. portion of the material covered…

Prerequisites: Prior exposure to asylum or immigration law is helpful but not required. Exam Type: No Exam.
The final grade will be based primarily…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No HLS Exam This course focuses on the interplay among states, international organizations, multinational corporations, civil society organizations, and activist networks…

Prerequisites: Open to upper-level JD students. For LLM students: this upper-level course assumes that students have prior knowledge of the basic principles of American law…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course is designed to introduce the non-specialist law student to major features of the Japanese legal system. The…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of…

Prerequisite: Torts or permission of the instructor. Exam Type: No Exam Protecting privacy has become one of the major challenges of our time. In the…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam What problems do developing countries face, and how can individuals contribute to solutions rather than awaiting the largesse of…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam An introduction to Roman law that combines a survey approach with one that focuses in some depth on topics…