Interest Areas
Legal Profession, Legal Ethics & Professional Responsibility
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class. Grades will be based principally on a final in-class examination but also, to some extent, on class participation or assigned…
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Legal Profession: Collaborative Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home
In addition to the final exam, students will submit a one-page reading response for each class. -
Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule
Grades will be based principally on a final in-class… -
Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course will explore the rules and the standards of professional…
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Legal Profession: Public Interest Lawyering
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class This course will explore the application of the rules and the standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics to…
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Legal Profession: Public Interest Lawyering
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Spring 2021 Exam Schedule This course will explore the application of the rules and the standards…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course will explore the rules and the standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics through the lens of…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course will explore the rules and the standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics through the lens of…
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The Power of Principled Leadership: A Practical Approach
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam Can professional success be achieved without “playing politics” or “behaving politically”? Can behaving ethically, with integrity & principle, be a…
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Government Lawyer: United States Attorney Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Government Lawyer (2 fall classroom credits). Students who are accepted…
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Government Lawyer: United States Attorney Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Government Lawyer (2 fall classroom credits). Students who are accepted…
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Government Lawyer
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Government Lawyer: U.S. Attorney Clinic (4-5 clinical credits; either fall or spring semester). Students who are accepted into this clinic will be…
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Becoming a Law Professor
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: Admission is by application via email to Susannah Barton Tobin at stobin@law.harvard.edu by October 31, 2021. Please include a paragraph expressing your interest in…
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Legal Profession: Government Ethics – Scandal and Reform
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The course will focus on the rapidly-changing legal system that is designed to regulate government ethics. The course will…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course will examine the rules and standards of professional responsibility and legal ethics with a focus on how…
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Challenges of a General Counsel: Lawyers as Leaders
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students will write 2-3 page response papers (which will be graded pass/fail) using the problem to highlight… -
Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class Ethical issues can arise in any type of practice and at any point in a lawyer’s work, often unexpectedly,…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-home This course offers a look at the organization, economics, operation, and ideology of the legal profession. We will…
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Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 2L (3 fall clinical credits + 1 winter clinical credit + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and…
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Fair Trial
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take Home Students will write a paper (1500 words) and an exam essay (500 words), both due at the…
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Negotiation Workshop
January 18, 2023
Special drop deadline: November 5, 2021 Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam *Cross-Registrants: Please note that cross-registrants interested in taking the Workshop must participate in…
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Advanced Clinical Practice
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 3L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment…
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Legal Profession Seminar
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the discussion,… -
Government Lawyer: United States Attorney Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Government Lawyer (2 fall classroom credits). Students who are accepted…
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Challenges of a General Counsel: Lawyers as Leaders
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam As the seminar description indicates, in this seminar we will use a series of in-depth case studies to examine…
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Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 2L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment…
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Government Lawyer: United States Attorney Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Government Lawyer (2 fall classroom credits). Students who are accepted…
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Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinical Seminar
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinic, either during winter-spring (2 winter clinical credits + 8 spring clinical credits) or spring clinic (8…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course offers a look at the organization, economics, operation, and…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…
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Government Lawyer
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Government Lawyer: U.S. Attorney Clinic (fall or spring semester). Students who are accepted into this clinic will be enrolled in the clinic…
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Advanced Clinical Practice
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 3L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule Ethical issues can arise in any type of practice and at…
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Resilience and Leadership in the Law
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The legal profession faces many challenges. New businesses are working on disrupting the legal profession, primarily through technology and…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study…
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Legal Profession Seminar
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam
Students are required to write short response papers (around 2-pages) for each session, actively participate in the… -
Fair Trial
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Please refer to the Fall 2020 Tentative Exam Schedule
Students will write a paper (1500 words) and an… -
Racial Justice Reading Group
January 18, 2023
Please Note: This by-permission reading group is available only to current HLAB students. Harvard Legal Aid Bureau members see firsthand, on a daily basis, the…
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Legal Profession
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course considers three categories of materials. First, we will study the nature of professionalism in American society…
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Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinical Seminar
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Government Lawyer: Semester in Washington Clinic, either during winter-spring (2 winter clinical credits + 8 spring clinical credits) or spring clinic (8…
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Legal Profession: Government Ethics – Scandal and Reform
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam The course will focus on the rapidly-changing legal system that is designed to regulate government ethics. The course will…
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Becoming a Law Professor
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: Admission is by application via email to Susannah Barton Tobin at stobin@law.harvard.edu by October 31, 2020. Please include a paragraph expressing your interest in…
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Designing Dispute Systems for Justice
January 18, 2023
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…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Whether in solo, small firm or not for profit legal aid offices, new modes of serving clients of modest…