Professor Wilkins is still accepting students in this seminar, which will bring top scholars from a variety of disciplines to share their research on the cutting edge issues transforming the legal profession and legal practice in the US and around the world.  Among the scholars who will present their work are Professor John Coates (Harvard) presenting research on lawyers in cross-border M&A transactions involving emerging economies; Professor Ashish Nanda (Harvard) discussing a study of associate recruitment and retention; Professor Vikram Khanna (Michigan) presenting research from his forthcoming book on Legal Process Outsourcing; Professors Mitu Gulati (Duke) and Robert Scott (Columbia) presenting research from their forthcoming book on how lawyers use form contracts in sovereign debt transactions; Professor Scott Cummings (UCLA) presenting work from his forthcoming book on the future of public interest law; and Professor Richard Suskind (Oxford) discussing th
 e reaction to his recent book “The End of Lawyers?” (A complete listing of all of the speakers and their topics is available on the course website).  Students will be expected to read the materials that will be presented each week and to write short (two page) response papers raising questions or comments for the speakers. Students who are interested in doing further research in the area will have the option of writing a longer paper, for which they may be entitled to receive some research support from the Program on the Legal Profession.  1Ls, LLMs and SJDs, students from other disciplines, and research fellows seeking to audit the course are all welcome. Interested students are encouraged to attend the first session on Tuesday 1/24 and enroll online. Please direct any questions to Prof. Wilkins’ assistant Nathan Cleveland:  ncleveland at law.harvard.edu

Catalog Number: 51199
Cory Theodore Way
Half course (spring term). Tu., Th., at 10. EXAM GROUP: 12
Examines why crime stories have been consistently compelling to societies and citizens. Explores how crime narratives have been harnessed to advance various (and often overlapping) objectives, including political, ideological, journalistic, artistic and commercial aims. Analyzes the role and impact of crime narratives in contemporary society, and the responsibilities (if any) of the creators and consumers of these narratives.

Students should feel free to contact me.  Thank you.

Suzanne Ogungbadero
Coordinator of Academic Affairs
Harvard Sociology Department
668 William James Hall
617.495.3507

[ saw at wjh.harvard.edu]

The textbook for the course is Strauss, Rakoff, Farina and Metzger, Gellhorn and Byse’s Administrative Law-Cases and Comments – Eleventh Edition (2011) – and is available now at the Law Coop.   For the first class on Wednesday, January 25, please read pages 2-18 of the textbook.  In addition, I would appreciate your not bringing laptops to class this semester.

 Class will meet on Mondays and Thursdays at 3:20 – 4:50 p.m. in classroom B015 in the basement of Wasserstein Hall (the new “Northwest” building).  If you come via the main tunnel from Austin, Griswold, Langdell or Lewis, take the left turn marked for Wasserstein (the first left after the one from Pound).  The corridor to B015 will be on your left.

Readings for the course are photocopied materials available at the Copy Center in the basement of Wasserstin.

For our first class, on Monday, January 23, please read photocopied items #1 – #10.

description:  Class will meet on Wednesday at 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. in classroom 2009 in Wasserstein Hall (the new “Northwest” building).  If you enter at the southwest corner of Wasserstein (closest to Mass. Ave. and Pound Hall), take either the staircase or the elevator to the second floor.  Proceed northwards along the main corridor (parallel to Mass. Ave.); 2009 is the second classroom on the left.

Readings for the course are photocopied materials available at the Copy Center in the basement of Wasserstein.

For our first class, on Wednesday, January 25, pleasle read photocopied items #1 – #6.

description: Employment Law (Prof. Sachs/Spring 2012):  The 2 required books for this course are:  Willborn, Schwab, Burton & Lester – Employment Law: Cases and Materials, Fourth Edition (2007) and the companion statutory supplement by the same authors:  Employment Law: Selected Federal and State Statutes (2007).  Also, the course Syllabus and supplemental readings will be included in a course packet (in electronic form on the course website and as hard copies available at the Copy Center). 
The syllabus for Employment Law, which contains some administrative information about the course, is now available on the course website.  The assignment for the first class (on Monday, January 23) is:
Adkins v. Children’s Hospital of the District of Columbia (Supp. 1-7)
West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish (Supp. 8-10)
Secretary of Labor v. Lauritzen (13-26)
Egbuna v. Time-Life Libraries, Inc. (Supp. 11-14)
As noted in the syllabus, our first meeting will proceed on a volunteer basis.  Please be prepared to cover the above material during our first class, although we may discuss some of it on Tuesday, January 24.

description:  Reading Group: Advanced Readings in the Law of the Workplace (Prof. Sachs/Spring 2012): The assignment for the first class meeting of the reading group (Wednesday, January 25th – from 5:00-7:00 pm) is as follows:

Cynthia Estlund, Rebuilding the Law of the Workplace in an Era of Self-Regulation, 105 Colum. L. Rev. 319 (2005)

William Forbath, The Distributive Constitution and Workers’ Rights, 72 Ohio St. L.J. 1115 (2011).

Readings can be found both on the course website (in pdf format) and in hard copy – available at the Copy Center by Friday, January 20th.

This class meets on Wednesday from 4-6 PM.

This is a 1-credit reading group coordinated by Prof. Cohen at HLS and Prof. Daniels at HSPH, but taught by multiple instructors who will rotate between sessions, bringing together philosophical, medical and legal bioethicists from across the university, some of the leading scholars in the world on these subjects.

The reading group examines issues in ethics and health policy, including a basic account of justice and health; ethical critique of maximization methodologies, including cost-effectiveness analysis; individual and social responsibility for health; and other topics.

There is no written work for this reading group. It is pass/fail. To pass students are expected to have done the reading, attend each session, and participate.

Please note that although this is 1 Credit Reading Group it meets every week of the semester for two hours. In appropriate cases students can propose a writing project associated with the course to Prof. Cohen, that he can approve for a 2nd credit associated with the course.

The course is open to HLS, HSPH, FAS, HMS, KSG, and any other graduate student at the university.

Enrollment is by-permission of the instructor. To be considered for enrollment, please submit a maximum one page description of interest in the subject, relevant course work (particularly in political philosophy and/or bioethics, or other relevant background) to Professor Cohen ( igcohen at law.harvard.edu)

name: Ellen Keng
phone: 496-9016
sponsor: Professor Gerald Neuman
posting_section: Course/Book Information
title: International Human Rights with Prof. Neuman
description: Professor Neuman’s International Human Rights course in the spring semester will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays from 1:00-3:00 pm, not from 1:00-2:30 pm.  As explained in the course description, the course will meet four hours per week for nine weeks.  It will not meet during the weeks of March 5, March 19, and March 26.
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Private Law Workshop/Spring 2012
Professors John Goldberg, Henry Smith
Meeting Time: Mondays 1-3 pm
LAW-44317A

Students who wish to be considered for the seminar should submit to John Goldberg ( jgoldberg at law.harvard.edu) a 1- or 2-page statement of interest and a CV by 5 p.m. on December 15, 2011.
Paper required. Admission by permission of the instructors.

This workshop will explore the foundations of private law—property, contracts, torts, and restitution. Emphasis will be on theories that offer explanations, justifications, and criticisms of architectural features of these areas of law and of their connections to one another. Sessions will be devoted to paper presentations by outside speakers and to discussions of classic and contemporary works reflecting philosophical, historical, and economic approaches to private law topics.

The first session on Sept 14 has been cancelled to enable students to attend the Public Service Orientation and we will add an additional date. What was the second session on September 20 will now run from 6:30 to 8:30 PM rather than 5:30 to 7:30 PM to enable students to attend some of the Student Journals Panel & Fair.  Rather than an orientation meeting, we will instead meet in front of Prof. Cohen’s office (Griswold 503) on Sept 20 at 6:20 PM and walk over to his home together for the first session.

Memorandum to my Fall Semester Reading Group: Supreme Difficulties

As I wrote in the prospectus for the Reading Group we will have a mixture of readings and approaches.   I want to start out with a consideration of the constitutionality of the health care mandate in the PPACA, which is very likely to reach the Supreme Court.  I thought we should take at least the first two weeks on that, in part because the two opinions I would like you to read, the 11th Circuit’s opinion holding the mandate unconstitutional and Judge Sutton’s opinion in the 6th Circuit reach in the opposite conclusion are quite long.  I have also added a little blog post of my own from SCOTUSBLOG, which I think goes just a bit too fast and too superficially.

After that we will switch gears and talk about personalities and style and their effect on the Supreme Court’s work. My focus will be on Justice Robert Jackson.  I have posted the chapter on Jackson in William Domnarski’s, The Great Justices, 1941-1954.    Domnarski’s account casts a shadow if not doubt on my own  essay on style and character, focusing on Jackson, “Balls and Strikes.”  (If you become fascinated with Jackson  you might want to look at ch.s  4, 10, 18, 20, 25, 26, 28, 29, 20, 34, 37-39, 43, 44 (they are short) in Noah Feldman’s splendid  Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices.   But Feldman’s story is best followed by reading the whole book, and the Domnarski chapter is relatively self-contained. )

Moving from Jackson to the signal accomplishment of the Warren Court, we will read the chapter on Brown v. Board of Education from Morton Horwitz’s unpublished manuscript of his book on the Warren Court, with a short appendix on Robert Jackson’s five unpublished draft opinions of what was to be a unanimous opinion.

If this does not exhaust our time,  I have a number of possible reading topics and we can decide together what we should do.  My thoughts include Bush v. Gore,  the coming battle over the constitutionality of the Defense of Marriage Act, and Mark Tushnet’s ms. article on the First Amendment and abstract art.

First Amendment- A2.  Professor Charles Fried

A tentative syllabus is posted on the course website.   The case book is Sullivan and Gunther,  First Amendment Law (Fourth edition- Foundation Press) . There is also a 2011 Supplement. I have posted it on the website. The printed version of  the supplement is liable to cost you some money and covers not just First Amendment but constitutional law generally.  The publisher has given permission to post and download free.
Supplementary required reading is noted on the syllabus and posted on the course website.   From time to time I will update the syllabus to indicate the cases that will be the focus of discussion.
The first assignment is on the syllabus.

Please note, you MUST attend the first class (Wed Sept 14) if you wish to take the class — including if you are on the waitlist or if you are considering trying to add it. The first class is Wed Sept 14 at 5pm in Pound 204. The ILW will meet every Wed from 5 to 7 pm, Sept 14 to Dec 7, in Pound 204 except for the following dates: There is no class Wed Sept 28 — it will be held instead on Friday, September 30, 3 to 5pm. There is no class Wed Nov 9 — it will be held instead on Friday, November 11, 3 to 5pm.

Course Information and First Assignment for Contracts 7 – Professor Todd Rakoff – Fall 2011:  There will be one casebook and one source materials supplement for this course:  (1) Steven J. Burton, “Principles of Contract Law” – Third Edition (2006), and (2) Steven J. Burton & Melvin A. Eisenberg (eds.), “Contract Law: Selected Source Materials” – 2011 Edition.  (They are available at the Law School Coop.)  For our first meeting on Wednesday, August 31, please read pages 1-16 in the casebook and the provisions of the Restatement of Contracts (which can be found in the supplement) that are referred to in those pages.  I would appreciate your not bringing laptops (or comparable electronic devices) to class this semester.

The research Seminar on International Finance, co-taught by Professors Jackson and Scott, has limited openings for J.D. students. While students are free to write papers on topics of their own choosing, the Seminar will concentrate this year on international coordination of regulatory policy and the European debt crisis.  A number of prominent speakers will be guest lecturers, including Simon Gleeson, Partner, Clifford Chance, London, Mark Sobel, U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Monetary and Financial Policy, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Jürgen Stark, Member of the Executive Board, European Central Bank, Eddy Wymeersch, Chairman, European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) and Zhu Min, Deputy Managing Director, International Monetary Fund.  The Seminar meets periodically over the course of the Fall and Spring semesters.  Many past papers have been published.  The Seminar is by permission only. To apply, send a statement of interest to  hscott at law.harvard.edu or  hjackson at law.harvard.edu.

The application for the 2011-2012 fall/winter course, Ideas for a Better Internet, taught by Jonathan Zittrain and Elizabeth Stark, is now live at https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGtVekdHTE9Nblljck5aQ2xEbUZRTWc6MQ (applications due July 31).
Please see below for more information:
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IDEAS FOR A BETTER INTERNET
This joint Harvard/Stanford interdisciplinary seminar will continue a year-long arc of developing and building ideas for a better internet. During the fall, students will incorporate ideas identified by a public call for proposals from the previous spring, and work through the process of building out these ideas.  During the winter term students will finalize the projects that they have developed throughout the fall semester, engage in visits to companies and organizations, and prepare a working demo or proposal to be presented at a culminating event with leaders of Silicon Valley and beyond.  By the end of the course, students will have launched their solution-based projects to the world in conjunction with those proposing the ideas.

Students will be selected via an application process. The application form can be found here:
https://spreadsheets.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dGtVekdHTE9Nblljck5aQ2xEbUZRTWc6MQ

Applications are due on July 31, 2011 with admission on a rolling basis.

For purposes of planning next year’s Workshop, Professor Rosenberg would like to get a preliminary sense of potential topics of interest among enrollees. Please email ( kpeterso at law.harvard.edu) by June 1, three topics which most interest you from the list provided in the course catalog (including national security/counter-terrorism which was inadvertently omitted from this listing) and if you have an unlisted, special interest for concentrated research, please include that one as well.

In the Ghana Project, students work in a team to promote the Right to Health in Ghana’s remote rural areas.  Students receive 3 academic and 2 clinical credits spread through the year.  Admission by permission: email application (1 page CV and 2 page statement of interest) to Ellen Keng (ekeng) and Professor White (lwhite) by APRIL 15.  Do NOT register for course during clinical registration period.  FALL AND SPRING MEETING TIMES (1 credit each semester) WILL BE DETERMINED BASED ON ADMITTED STUDENTS’ AVAILABILITY.  Email Professor White with questions.