2008-09 Course and Schedule Updates

Course and Schedule Updates: 2009-10, 2008-09

1/28/2009	Professor Tribe's Constitutional Law: First Amendment B2 will meet on Thursday and Friday, 1-3.
1/26/2009	Philosophy background required for Professor Kamm's, Bioethics: Seminar.
1/23/2009	Please Note: Consumer Finance will hold its first class on Tuesday, January 27th, in Austin East, the day before other upper-level classes begin. Ordinarily, the course will meet from 1:40 to 3:40 pm on Mondays and some Tuesday, but for this first session, students should come at 1:00 pm for a preliminary overview of course logistics.
1/21/2009	Visiting Professor Ring will offer Taxation: International Aspects of U.S. Income Taxation during the spring term.
1/16/2009	Professor Jackson's Consumer Finance course will meet on Mondays from 1:30-3:30 to 1:40-3:40
1/13/2009	Professor Mack's Property class will meet on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 10:15 to 12:10.
1/13/2009	Professor Hoffman's Mediation class optional 8-hour mediation training session will meet on February 15 not February 10.
1/12/2009	Professor Robert Percival will be teaching Environmental Law during the spring term. The course will meet on Wednesdays from 10:15-12:15.
1/8/2009	Professor Sunstein's Behavioral Law and Economics: Frontiers Issues: Seminar will not be offered during the spring term.
12/19/2008	Professor Warren's Taxation B2 and Taxation: Corporate Transaction textbook updated.
12/18/2008	Professor Cohen-Tanugi's Transatlantic Mergers and Acquisitions registration will remain open until the first day of class (March 9).
12/12/2008	Description added to Professor Johansen's spring term The Concept of Obligation in Islamic Law.
11/21/2008	Professor Ramseyer is offering Advanced Readings in Japanese Law: Seminar during the spring term. Enrollment is by-permission of instructor.
11/20/2008	Mr. Carfagna's Sports and the Law: Advanced Contract Drafting Seminar is now available in the 2L/3L spring registration.
11/17/2008	Visiting Professor Landau's Latin American Public Law: Seminar is available in the 2L/3L spring registration. Permission of instructor no longer needed.
11/13/2008	Visiting Professor Weil text for Financial Accounting is Financial Accounting: An Introduction to Concepts, Methods, and Uses,13th edition by Stickney, Weil, Schipper, and Francis.
11/13/2008	Structuring Venture Capital will meet from 9-12 on January 5, 8:45-12:30 from January 6-16, January 19, 20, 21 No classes, 8:45-12:30 on January 22
11/12/2008	As explained in the course catalog, the Consumer Finance course is a joint offering between the Law School and Harvard Business School. Weekly class sessions will rotate between HLS and HBS. To accommodate differences in school calendars, the first meeting of the class will occur on Tuesday, January 27th, which is the week before the HLS Spring semester officially begins. Students enrolled in the course should try to attend this session. The last session of the course will take place on Tuesday, April 21st, which is a week before the last week of HLS classes. The course is already oversubscribed on the HBS side, but we are holding an equal number of seats for HLS students and hope to have an enrollment evenly divided between the two schools. If you have any questions about the course, feel free to contact Professor Jackson (hjackson@law.harvard.edu).
10/30/2008	Applications for Professor Goldsmith's City Building: Crafting a Legal Framework for a New Development City: Seminar are due by January 1, 2009.
10/28/2008	Description added to Visiting Professor Damrosch's Law and Non-Proliferation: Reading Group.
10/27/2008	1Ls and 2Ls interested in complying with the requirement to take a professional responsibility course should know that this spring there are two sections of the Legal Profession course with seats reserved exclusively for 1Ls and 2Ls. They are Legal Profession B5 (Lawrence Fox) and Legal Profession B3 (Andrew Kaufman). This is a good chance to complete that requirement.
10/22/2008	Christopher Robertson is offering Health Law and Economic Insecurity: Reading Group during the spring term.
10/16/2008	Visiting Professor Gersen will offer Executive Branch Design: Reading Group during the spring term instead of Law of Disasters: Reading Group.
10/14/2008	Description revised for Assistant Professor Sach's spring seminar, Labor Law in Transition: Emerging Trends and New Directions: Seminar.
10/8/2008	Professor Cavallaro's winter course DOCTRINE AND PRACTICE OF THE INTER-AMERICAN HUMAN RIGHTS SYSTEM is by-permission of instructor. See description for instructions.
10/7/2008	Professors Sunstein and Zittrain are offering The Internet: Issues at the Frontiers: Seminar during the spring term.
10/7/2008	Professor Goldsmith is offering City Building: Crafting a Legal Framework for a New Development City: Seminar during the spring term. Meeting times to be determined.
10/2/2008	Harvard Business School On-Line Modules for Accounting and Finance Now Available to HLS Students. For more information see the Office of the Registrar web site.
9/29/2008	Professors Halley's and Suk's Law and Humanities Workshop in the spring term title has changed to Law and Humanities Colloquium and is now 2 credits.
9/29/2008	Professor Sunstein's spring term Behavioral Law and Economics: Frontiers Issues: Seminar will be offered for 1 classroom credit and 1 writing credit. It will be offered every other week for two hours.
9/25/2008	Professor Desan will not be offering The Political Economy of Globalization: Legal and Historical Dimensions during the spring term.
9/24/2008	Applications for the winter term Supreme Court Litigation course (which will be held in Washington DC this year) are due to Tom Goldstein by October 18.
9/17/2008	Professor Halley will not be offering Globalization of American Feminist Legal Reform (The): Seminar during the spring term.
9/16/2008	Professor Alstott's Tax Policy: Reading Group will meet 8 times for 1 1/2 hours.
9/3/2008	Visiting Professor Lester's reading group Work and Economic Security: Reading Group is being offered in the spring term not the fall term.
9/2/2008	Professor Kraakman will be teaching Comparative Corporate Law and Governance in Western Europe: Seminar instead of Current Issues in Corporate Theory: Seminar this spring. The new seminar will be co-taught with Visiting Professor Karl Hofstetter.
8/29/2008	Professor Nesson will offer Open Education: Learning and Giving in the Online World: Seminar during the spring term.
8/29/2008	Ms. Rosenfeld will offer Title IX Clinical Workshop and Gender Violence Clinical Workshop during the fall term.
8/28/2008	Clinical Professor Cavallaro will not offer International Human Rights Litigation: Seminar during the spring term.
8/26/2008	Professor Halperin will offer Taxation: Partnerships: Reading Group during the fall term.
8/12/2008	Professors Vermeule's and Sunstein's Theory of the Administrative State: Reading Group will meet on Tuesdays, 1-3 (Block E).
8/1/2008	Professor Goldberg will offer Advanced Topics in Torts and Puzzles of Moral and Legal Responsibility: Reading Group during the spring term.
7/30/2008	Ms. Stephanie Robinson will offer While Democracy Sleeps: Reading Group during the fall term.
7/21/2008	Taxation and Regulation of Non-Profits will meet on Thursdays and Fridays, 10AM-11:30AM (instead of 10AM-12PM).
7/18/2008	Visiting Professor Tokaji Federal Courts and the Federal System A will meet in Block F on Wednesday and Thursday, 1PM-3PM, instead of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, 1PM-2:20.
7/15/2008	Visiting Professor Estlund Employment Law A is a laptop-free class. There will, however, be a notetaking system that will be explained and set up at the beginning of classes.
7/11/2008	Description added to Visiting Professor Weil's Financial Accounting course.
7/9/2008	A sentence has been added to Ms. Cendali's Trademark and Copyright Litigation: TRO to the Supreme Court course. "While no prior courses in IP are necessary as the course will provide any necessary foundation, students with an interest/background in IP will best be able to appreciate the course."
7/7/2008	Visiting Professor Coquillette will offer Legal History: American Legal Education: Seminar during the spring term.
7/7/2008	Professor Allen Ferrell and Mr. Warren Stern will offer Securities Litigation Seminar during the spring term.
7/7/2008	International Childhood, Rights, and Globalization will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:10-2:30 at Harvard Kennedy School.
6/26/2008	Assistant Professor Suk and Radha Iyengar will not offer Facts and Values: Law, Empirical Evidence, and Social Theory: Reading Group this fall. Assistant Professor Suk will offer a new reading group Criminal Regulation of Vice: Reading Group.
6/24/2008	Mr. Daniel Kelly's Land Use Puzzles, Natural Resource Dilemmas: Seminar will meet on Thursdays, 5pm-7pm (Block K) during the spring term.
6/23/2008	Visiting Professor Weil will offer an eight week Financial Accounting course during the spring term. Meeting times and description TBD.
6/23/2008	Mr. Daniel Kelly will offer Land Use Puzzles, Natural Resource Dilemmas: Seminar during the spring term.
6/16/2008	Visiting Associate Professor Daniel Williams will offer a course on the Death Penalty during the spring term on Tuesdays and Wednesdays from 5 to 6:30 (Block L). Course title and description TBD.
6/13/2008	Corporate Finance B is being co-taught by Professors Ferrell and Kraakman.
6/12/2008	Students may not take both Practical and Theoretical Regulation of Voting offered by Assistant Professor Greiner and Election Law and Administration: Reading Group offered by Visiting Professor Tokaji because of the overlap.
6/9/2008	Professor Kennedy's Race-Making and Law-Making in the Long Civil Rights Movement: Seminar is by-permission of the instructor.
6/9/2008	Ms. Stern's Understanding Terrorism: Seminar will meet on Thursdays from 10AM-12PM.
6/9/2008	Justice Ngcobo's Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights: Seminar will meet from April 6 to April 24. Meeting days and times TBD.
6/5/2008	Professor Johansen will offer The Concept of Obligation in Islamic Law during the spring term.
6/4/2008	Professor Randall Kennedy will offer Race Relations and the Presidential Election of 2008 during the fall term.
6/3/2008	Ms. Roseman will offer International Reproductive/Sexual Health Rights: Reading Group during the spring term.
5/29/2008	Justice Ngcobo will offer Judicial Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights: Seminar during the spring term. Meeting dates and times TBD.
5/25/2008	Ms. Fatima will offer a 4-week spring module "War on Terror and Human Rights Law in the UK (The)."
5/16/2008	Visiting Professor Cohen-Tanugi Transatlantic Mergers and Acquisitions will meet March 9-April 15.
5/12/2008	Professor Suk will not be offering Criminal Law Advanced: Vice: Reading Group during the spring term. Instead she will be offering a 1 credit Law and Humanities Workshop with Professor Halley.
5/2/2008	Professor Steiker's fall Comparative Criminal Procedure: Reading Group will not be offered. She will be offering Criminal Justice Theory: Reading Group in the spring.
4/29/2008	Professor Rubenstein's fall term Remedies: Select Topics has been rescheduled to Wednesdays 5pm-7pm (previously Mondays 5pm-7pm).
4/29/2008	Visiting Professor Ben-Menahem will offer Jewish Law: The Legal Thought of Maimonides, Talmudic Law Advanced: Talmudic Law Advanced: The responsa literature: Reading Group, and Talmudic Law for Beginners during the spring term.
4/28/2008	Income Taxation is a prerequisite for Tax and Social Policy.
4/28/2008	Professor Klarman will offer Warren Court: Reading Group during the fall term.
4/24/2008	Description added to International Environmental Law.
4/24/2008	Judge Kavanaugh will offer Separations of Powers during the winter term.
4/24/2008	Professor Kamm's Bioethics: Seminar will meet on Tuesdays from 5-7 during the spring term.
4/23/2008	Professor Fox will be offering another section of Legal Profession: Traversing the Ethical Minefield B5 during the spring term for 1Ls and 2Ls only.
4/23/2008	Professor Weinreb's Criminal Law/Police Practices. Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments and Professor Sullivan's Criminal Procedure: Investigation are duplicative of material covered in 1L Criminal Law courses taken by those who will be 3Ls in 2008-2009. These courses are therefore open only to students who will be 2Ls in 2008-2009.
4/23/2008	Professor Bhabha will be offering International Childhood, Rights, and Globalization in the fall term and Human Rights, State Sovereignty, and Persecution: Issues in Forced Migration and Refugee Protection in the spring term. Meeting times to be determined.
4/22/2008	Description added to Professor Guinier's and Visiting Professor Brown-Nagin's Critical Perspectives on the Law: Issues of Race, Gender, Class and Social Change: Reading Group.
4/18/2008	Mr. Landau will be offering in the Latin American Public Law: Seminar spring term.
4/18/2008	Mr. Bienenstock will be offering Corporate Reorganization in the spring term.
4/18/2008	Title change and description added to Mr. Bonovitz spring term course The Large Law Firm--Organization, Operation, Strategies and Issues.
4/18/2008	Assistant Professor Sachs will be offering Labor Law in Transition: Emerging Trends and New Directions: Seminar in the spring term.
4/18/2008	Mr. Hutt will be offering Food and Drug Law in the winter term.
4/16/2008	Course title change for Professor Weinreb's spring course from Criminal Investigations/Police Practices to Criminal Law/Police Practices. Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments.
4/15/2008	Description added to Appellate Courts and Advocacy Workshop.
4/14/2008	Description added to Criminal Adjudication.
4/14/2008	Description added to Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics.
4/11/2008	Visiting Professor Kang will offer Readings in Election Law Theory: Reading Group in the spring.
4/11/2008	Race and Justice: Criminal will not be offered in the spring term.
4/11/2008	Professor Sheila Jasanoff will be offering Science and the Law: Competing Universals: Reading Group in the spring term.
4/11/2008	Professor Benjamin Sach will be offering Labor Law in the fall.
4/10/2008	Professor Hanson will be offering Situationism: Seminar in the fall and Ideology, Psychology and Law: Seminar in the spring.
4/10/2008	Mr. Cope's Analytical Methods for Lawyers B has been moved from the G Block to the F block. It will meet on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays from 1 p.m. to 2:20 p.m.
4/10/2008	Professor Guinier and Professor Brown-Nagin will be offering Critical Perspectives on the Law: Issues of Race, Gender, Class and Social Change: Reading Group in the fall term.
4/10/2008	Professor Feldman's and Visiting Professor John Jackson's Race, Religion, and Law will be offered in the spring. It will meet on Wednesdays from 3:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
4/10/2008	Assistant Professor Roin will be offering Patent Law in the fall.
4/10/2008	Visiting Professor Kang will be offering Election Law: the Law of Democracy in the spring.
4/8/2008	Assistant Professor Cohen will be offering a 3 classroom credit course Genetics and Reproductive Technology: Legal and Ethical Issues in the spring.
4/8/2008	Health Law Policy Workshop A is being offered in the fall and Health Law Policy Workshop B is being offered in the spring. It is not a year-long course.
4/8/2008	Professor Fisher will be offering Intellectual Property: Advanced in the spring instead of Patent Law.
4/7/2008	Professor Whiting's Evidence A2 meets from 10:00-11:30 not 10-12.
4/7/2008	Mr. Thomas Goldstein, Ms. Amy Howe, and Mr. Kevin Russell will be offering Supreme Court Litigation in the winter.
4/7/2008	Professor Goldstone will be offering International Criminal Law: Seminar in the fall.
4/4/2008	Professor Mack will be teaching Legal History: American Legal History, 1865 to Present in the spring.
4/4/2008	Description added to Professor Nesson's More Freedom: Reading Group.
4/3/2008	Mr. Bertling's spring Predatory Lending/Consumer Protection Clinical Workshop B is now posted.
4/3/2008	Mr. Shay's course title has been corrected to Taxation: International Aspects of U.S. Income Taxation.
4/3/2008	Mr. Poole will not be offering Capital Punishment in America in the spring term.
4/1/2008	There are still available seats in Professors Frug's and Barron's Green Cities--New York: Seminar. Contact Professor Frug or Professor Barron by 10 a.m. Friday, April 4 if you are interested in enrolling.
4/1/2008	Description added to Professor McConnell's Creation of the Constitution.
4/1/2008	Professor Tokaji will be offering Federal Courts and the Federal System in the fall.
3/28/2008	Professor Nanda will be offering Professional Services in the fall.
3/28/2008	Visiting Professor Damrosch's fall classes have been cancelled.
3/28/2008	Professor Sandel's description and time have been added for Ethics, Economics and Law: Seminar. It will meet on Mondays, 5-7.
3/27/2008	Professor Hay's spring term Law and Vision: Seminar has been changed to The Holocaust and the Law: Seminar.
3/25/2008	Professor Alstott will be offering Taxation B3 and Tax Policy: Reading Group in the spring term and Low-Income Workers in the winter term.
3/25/2008	Professor Kahan will be offering Law and Cognition: Reading Group in the spring term.
3/24/2008	Mr. Wolfman will be offering Appellate Courts and Advocacy Workshop in the spring. Description and meeting times TBD.
3/24/2008	Professor Sandel will be offering Ethics, Economics and Law: Seminar in the fall. Description and meeting times TBD.
3/24/2008	Title change for Professor Sullivan's Advanced Criminal Procedure: Criminal Investigations to Criminal Procedure: Investigation.
3/24/2008	Title change for Professor Sitkoff's spring seminar from Trust Law Advanced: Seminar to Trust Law: Current Topics, Theories, and Evidence: Seminar.
3/21/2008	New spring Law and Vision: Seminar will be offered in the Spring.
3/21/2008	Change to Professor Suk's Family Law description.
3/21/2008	Time change for Professor Spier's Business Strategy class. Will now end at 4:45 pm instead of 4:35.

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