Interest Areas
Race and the Law
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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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Farmed Animal Law and Policy
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: There are no formal prerequisites for the class, although an environmental law or animal law survey course is recommended. Exam Type: No Exam This…
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Housing Law and Policy
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course will provide an introduction to U.S. housing law and policy with a focus on low- and moderate-income…
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Policing in America: The Good, the Bad and The Ugly
January 27, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam Law enforcement in the United States plays a critical, often life-altering role in its citizenry’s life. More than 19,000…
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Employment Discrimination
January 25, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: In Class This course considers legal prohibitions on employment discrimination. It focuses on Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,…
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Criminal Procedure: Investigations
January 25, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In Class This course examines the relationship between the people and the police, primarily by examining the constitutional doctrines of the…
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Legal Profession Seminar
January 25, 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, and…
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Asian Americans and the Law
January 24, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Last Class Take-Home This course examines the legal issues that have confronted Asian Americans in the United States from the 19th…
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Advanced Readings in The Thirteenth Amendment
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This course focuses on the Reconstruction Amendments, directing the core of its readings and class engagement to the Thirteenth…
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Regional Human Rights Law: The Inter-American Perspective
January 23, 2023
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…
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Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam This course examines key intersections of race, politics, and law within a historical trajectory of evolving conceptions and associated…
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Media Images & The Law: Contesting Media in the Modern Era
January 23, 2023
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…
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Current Topics in Latino Civil Rights
January 23, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam In 2019, the number of Latinos reached a record 60.6 million — 18% of the U.S. population. Latinos constituted…
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Race, Class, Policing, and Punishment
January 20, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The virtually unprecedented overall rate at which we lock people up in this country, combined with the extreme concentration…
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Legal Policies, Randomized Control Trials, and Ethics
January 20, 2023
Prerequisites: Students who have completed either of the following Spring 2021 reading groups, Evaluating Criminal Justice Reform or Legal Policies, Randomized Control Trials, and Ethics,…
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Child Advocacy Clinic
January 20, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Lawyering for Children & Youth Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom…
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Child Advocacy Clinic
January 20, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Lawyering for Children & Youth Clinical Seminar (2 fall classroom…
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Lawyering for Children & Youth Clinical Seminar
January 20, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Child Advocacy Clinic (4-5 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…
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Child Advocacy Clinic
January 20, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Lawyering for Children & Youth Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom…
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Lawyering for Children & Youth Clinical Seminar
January 20, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Child Advocacy Clinic (4-5 fall clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…
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Capital Punishment Clinic
January 20, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Capital Punishment in America (4 fall classroom credits). Some seats…
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Legal Profession – The New Market for Personal Legal Services: Ethical and Professional Challenges
January 19, 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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Constitutional Law: First Amendment
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home This course is one of the basic courses in the field. It addresses the Freedom of Speech, the…
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Election Law Clinic
January 19, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Election Law Clinical Seminar (2 fall classroom credits). The…
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Misdemeanor Justice
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam Misdemeanors comprise the vast bulk of the American criminal system, approximately 80 percent of criminal dockets, yet they are…
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Trial Advocacy Workshop
January 19, 2023
This course is taught by Professor Ron Sullivan, The Honorable Jay Blitzman, Ms. Brandi Harden, and Professor Dehlia Umunna. Prerequisites: For JD students there…
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Sex Equality
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: Any Day Take-Home (open book), or 3 short papers throughout the term for lottery-selected group of students who apply. The relation…
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Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This seminar will explore the expanding practice around business and human rights, departing from its origins and moving into…
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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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ESG: Corporate Ethics in the 21st Century
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: Any-Day Take-Home, Paper Option Available This course will investigate the rise of ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) as a dominant investment…
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Seeing Criminal (In)Justice: Examining the Interplay of Visual Media, Storytelling and Criminal Law
January 19, 2023
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…
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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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Transgender Law & Politics
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam An intensive examination of the legal, social, and political issues raised by the status and treatment of transgender persons,…
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Capital Punishment in America
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: For JD students, Criminal Law is required. For LLM students, permission of the instructor is required to waive the requisite. Exam Type: In…
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Election Law Clinical Seminar
January 19, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Election Law Clinic (2-5 fall clinical credits). The clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…
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From Protest to Law: Triumphs and Defeats in Struggles for Racial Justice, 1950-1970
January 19, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
The requirement for the course is writing that amounts to about thirty double spaced pages. The… -
Fairness and Privacy: Perspectives of Law and Probability
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: Admission is by permission of instructors; applicants should submit letters of inquiry with CVs (as a single PDF) to Ellie Benagh, ebenagh@law.harvard.edu by June…
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Communication, Law and Social Justice
January 19, 2023
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…
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Great Cases of the Supreme Court
January 19, 2023
Prerequisites: None. Basic knowledge of constitutional law preferred but not required. Exam Type: No Exam
Students will be required to submit a… -
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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Diversity and Dispute Resolution
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam
There will be no final exam or research paper – instead, students will write a 300-500 word… -
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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Freedom of Expression and the Race Question
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam: No Exam This course will examine racial influences on controversies involving claims to freedom of expression. The provisional table of contents for…
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Election Law Clinic
January 18, 2023
Enrollment in this clinic will fulfill the HLS JD pro bono requirement. Required Class Component: Election Law Clinical Seminar (2 spring classroom credits). The…
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Election Law Clinical Seminar
January 18, 2023
Required Clinic Component: Election Law Clinic (2-5 spring clinical credits). The clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you…
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Class and Racial Justice
January 18, 2023
Prerequisite: None Exam Type: No Exam This reading group will focus on questions about how the idea of “racial justice” is related to “class.” When,…
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Framing, Narrative, and Supreme Court Jurisprudence
January 18, 2023
Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam In this seminar we will examine the ways in which the rhetorical and communications principles of framing and narrative…