Interest Areas
Law and Political Economy
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Climate Solutions Living Lab
January 25, 2023
Prerequisites:By Permission. This is a multi-disciplinary course and we encourage students from SEAS, GSD, HKS, GSE, SPH, HBS, and GSAS to apply. This course has…
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Workshop on Law and Political Economy
January 24, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This workshop is devoted to reading and discussing new scholarly work on law and political economy. Outside speakers and…
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Wielding Impact: Economics as Tool for Justice
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The study of the law is inextricably linked with the study of what constitutes justice. Yet formalistic legal doctrine…
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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 increasingly come to be seen as an urgent global problem, there has been a…
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Labor & Employment Lab
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam In this one unit course, students will generate and publish writing on labor and employment law, labor politics, and…
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Advanced Comparative Perspectives on U.S. Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will discuss U.S. law from a comparative perspective. We will discuss, from a non-U.S. perspective, the…
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Critical Corporate Theory Lab
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: By Permission. Students interested in applying to join the Lab should submit a short (300 word maximum) statement of interest to Professor Hanson. The…
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Power: Ethics, Means, Ends
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any-day take-home, or paper in lieu of exam option also available What is power? And what principles, if any, constrain it’s…
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Critical Race Theory
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will consider one of the newest intellectual currents within American Legal Theory – Critical Race Theory. Emerging…
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Labor Law
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One-Day Take-Home This course will focus on the statutory, judicial, and administrative law governing the collective organization of workers and…
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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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Feminist Legal Theory
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will write response papers analyzing the reading materials. The professor will provide feedback and revision will… -
Law and Economic Development
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home This course will explore past and present debates about the role of the legal order in economic development. We…
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Law and Political Economy?
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home Around the world, questions of “political economy” are back on the agenda, arrangements long taken for granted open to…
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Policing and Incarceration: Paths to Reform
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will examine policing and mass incarceration in the contemporary United States. The first half of the course…
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Global Anticorruption Lab
January 19, 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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Statistics for Lawyers
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home This course will cover foundational statistical concepts and how they are used in litigation. Statistical methods arise in a…
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Warren Center Research Seminar: Capitalism’s Hardwiring: Money, Credit, and Finance in a Globalizing World
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: Students who wish to enroll should have taken a course in either monetary law, financial regulation, or the history of economic regulation; participation is…
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Money Design and Inequality
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: The seminar is intended for students who have studied money as a legal institution. Students must have completed one of the following courses previously:…
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Law and Political Economy
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Law and political economy is the study of how law shapes power in market societies. The course will begin…
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Financial and Legal Needs of Low and Moderate Income Households
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam The seminar will examine the opportunities and perils in consumer financial services available to low and moderate income households. We…
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Constitutional Law: Money and the Making of American Capitalism
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam: In Class According to one of the framers, the “soul of the Constitution” was the clause allocating authority over money. Over the…
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Law and Inequality Workshop
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In this course we will explore concepts of inequality from a range of disciplinary perspectives. We will also consider…
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Local Government Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Any given place in the United States is governed by a diverse, overlapping, and conflicting set of governments, from…