Financing the climate transition is expected to cost trillions of dollars in the coming decades. This seminar will examine how debt markets are (and aren't) adapting to fund adaptation to …
This seminar will survey the origins of the privacy torts and their trajectory in the courts and scholarship as well as barriers to their enforcement in the digital age.
This course begins with an in-depth explication of the theory and practice of classical socialism (as defined by the Hungarian economist Janos Kornai) in countries such as the former Soviet …
This seminar will be jointly offered in the Law School and the Department of Environmental Sciences and co-taught by members of those departments. The course will use several species restoration …
This seminar will examine the extent to which international law successfully regulates the use of force in the international community. We will focus on the prohibition on the use of …
This seminar will explore the genre of the judicial opinion. Topics relating to judicial style include prophetic dissents, uses of technical or colloquial language, and personal invective. We will also …
This course is intended to introduce students to the theories behind the public utility--both historically and in its new iterations. Students will learn about public utility regulation as the precursor …
The goals of this course are (i) to introduce students to transactional law, (ii) to provide negotiations training in the context of transactional practice, and (iii) to further practical legal …
This course seeks to complement the law school's robust trial advocacy curriculum by focusing on the litigation that takes place before trial, and how every step in a case's lifespan …
This course addresses the intersection of the immigration and criminal justice systems, focusing on: 1) the effect of criminal convictions on noncitizens' immigration status; 2) the criminalization of immigration law …
This seminar will focus on the history and law of the financial infrastructure of our nation's government.
Constitutions around the world guarantee sex equality, or gender justice, in a variety of ways: through general equality clauses, gender-specific non-discriminating guarantees, political and other quotas, reproductive and social rights, …
What is neoliberalism? What distinguishes it from liberalism, libertarianism, and conservatism? What values, principles, and institutions, does neoliberalism promote? And what are the strongest moral, political, and philosophical arguments for …
This is a colloquium inviting scholars writing in public law to present works in progress. The class will meet to dissect the work before having the scholar present the work …
This seminar commences with the basic principles of international arbitration, such as consent of the parties. It then examines arbitration proceedings, from the constitution of the tribunal to applicable rules …
This seminar will address the potential moral underpinnings of contract law. Our primary focus will be on the relationship between contract and promise.
This is the first semester in a seminar intended to allow Fellows in the Law & Public Service Program to share research and writing on public-interest topics.Prerequisite: 3rd-Year Law
This course is designed for students in the Program in Law & Public Service and/or students considering a public-interest career. During the seminar, we will confront pressing questions of what …
This course explores the intersection among medicine, technology and the law. Topics may include human reproduction and birth, human genetics and the privacy and ownership of genetic information, death and …
This course considers European legal regimes as they moved around the globe. It examines those regimes interactions with one another and with non-European legal cultures from roughly 1500 to 1900.