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Law and Social Change
Program of Study Faculty Leaders
David Grossman
Martha Minow
Benjamin Sachs
Program of Study Student Fellows
Katie Legomsky
Joy Wang
Program of Study Research Librarian
June Casey
Announcements
On October 18, 2009, students and faculty gathered at the Newton home of Prof. Ben Sachs for SOUP & CIDER, the program's first annual retreat, with the goals of building the social change community at HLS. Please check out the feature in the Harvard Law Record: "With soup and cider, HLS' new social change program just getting warmed up"
To view the Spring 2009 faculty advising session on the Law and Social Change Program of Study, please click here.
In February 25, 2009, Harvard Law Faculty and students participated in a dynamic discussion about different ways to contribute to social change, from the fields of criminal law, government, international law and information technology. Please listen to the audio recording.
Overview
Law is deeply implicated in our economic, political, and social worlds. And so pursuit of social change invariably involves an engagement with law. Students who seek to understand how law can be harnessed for social change, or who wish to pursue careers as social change agents, are encouraged to follow the Law and Social Change Program of Study.
This Program of Study includes not only those courses and clinics that are obviously relevant, but also courses and activities that may seem less obviously linked to law and social change and yet potentially critical to building relevant understanding, skills, and strategies. Learning about the past, analyzing relationships among law, society, the economy, and social institutions, dissecting powerful institutions, and developing skills and capacities – including data and policy analysis skills – are all important steps; so is understanding particular problem areas and related legal materials. In order that students can develop a broad understanding of the ways in which law can contribute to social change, the Program is organized in two ways. First, recommended courses and faculty advisors are categorized according to different “modes” of social change work (a list that we will expand and modify as the Program develops):
∙ Organizing and Social Movements
∙ Institutional Reform
∙ Litigation
∙ Organizational Development and Leadership
∙ Electoral Politics
∙ Media and the Internet
Second, because many students are drawn to law and social change through a substantive focus, problem area, or constituency, courses and faculty are categorized into substantive “areas” (also a list that we will expand and modify as the Program develops):
∙ Children, Youth, and Family: Health, Welfare, and Education
∙ Community Economic Development
∙ Criminal Justice
∙ Economic Justice
∙ Environment
∙ Gender and Sexuality
∙ Health Care
∙ Immigration and Asylum
∙ International Human Rights
∙ Land Use and Property
∙ Poverty
∙ Racial Justice
∙ Religious Freedom
∙ Workplace
The Program of Study is not designed to encourage students to concentrate on a single mode or area of social change work. Nor does the Program view these different modes and areas as completely independent of one another; to the contrary, modes and areas of social change are deeply related to and impact each other. In sum, the Program’s intent is to enable students to develop a rich understanding of the promises and limitations inherent in the various modes and areas of work that are of interest to the student.
What follows is a description of modes and areas of social change, along with a preliminary list of faculty advisors and courses for each. Please note that for administrative ease, classes are listed only once in the “areas” section of this overview – although most have relevance to multiple areas of social change work. These lists will be updated as the Program continues to take shape.
Modes of Social Change
Organizing and Social Movements
People are at the heart of social change. So, then, are deliberate strategies to organize people, to mobilize groups with shared interests, to forge social movements, and to connect these efforts to law. The question of how law can facilitate organizing – how law can contribute to the building of social movements by enabling associations to meet, raise funds, speak, and act or by offering targets and arenas for action – is an important theme. The role of intellectuals and intellectual movements in social movement work is also an important area of study.
Recommended Courses:
HLS
The Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (Prof. Bartholet)
Community Action for Social and Economic Rights (Prof. White)
Child Advocacy Clinic (Ms. Budnitz)
Child, Family and State (Prof. Bartholet)
Dispute Systems Design (Prof. Bordone)
Green New York (Prof. Frug)
Human Rights Advocacy (Prof. Cavallaro)
Human Rights and the Environment Advocacy Seminar (Mr. Giannini)
Housing Law and Policy (Prof. Grossman)
Labor Law (Prof. Sachs)
Mediation (Mr. Hoffman)
Negotiation Workshop (Winter/Spring: Prof. Mnookin and others; Spring: Prof. Bordone and others)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
DPI-312: Sparking Social Change (Prof. Moore)
MLD-201A Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change (multiple sections offered)
MLD-377: Organizing: People, Power, and Change (Prof. Ganz)
MLD-342 Persuasion: The Science and Art of Effective Influence (Prof. Orren)
Faculty Advisors:
Institutional Reform
Social change also involves reforming the institutions that structure and govern our society – including corporations, labor unions, administrative agencies, schools, child welfare institutions, and religious organizations – as well as working through these institutions to influence other sectors of society. Forging partnerships between public and private institutions also constitutes a promising avenue for reform.This mode will enable students to understand how to reform and harness existing political, social, legal, and economic institutions.
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Antitrust Law (Judge Boudin)
The Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (Prof. Bartholet)
Bankruptcy (Fall: Prof. Roe; Spring: Prof. Triantis)
Child Advocacy Clinic (Ms. Budnitz)
Child, Family and State (Prof. Bartholet)
Corporate Governance of the Public Firm (Prof. Roe)
Corporate Governance: Hedge Funds, Venture Capital and Private Equity (Prof. Roe)
Corporations (Fall: Profs. Ramseyer and Subramanian; Spring: Profs. Clark, Hanson, and Kraakman)
Dispute Systems Design (Prof. Bordone)
Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk Clinical Workshop (Ms. Cole)
Government Lawyer: The Prosecutor (Prof. Whiting)
Green New York (Prof. Frug)
Introduction to Accounting and Corporate Financial Reports (Prof. Dharan)
Law of Nonprofit Organizations (Ms. Marion Fremont-Smith and Mr. Adelbert Spitzer)
Local Government Law (Prof. Frug)
Mediation (Mr. Hoffman)
Negotiation Workshop (Winter/Spring: Prof. Mnookin and others; Spring: Prof. Bordone and others)
Real Estate Law (Mr. Mechanic)
Shareholder Activism (Prof. Bebchuk and Ms. Young)
Taxation (Fall: Profs. Halperin, and Kaplow; Spring: Profs. Alstott and A. Warren)
Workshop on Crime and Criminal Justice Reform in Global Context (Prof. Stone (HKS))
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
DPI-318: Innovations in Democratic Governance (Prof. Fung)
HLE-111: Institutional and Community-Based Strategies to Support Children and Strengthen Families (Prof. Wilson)
HLE-201: Poverty and Social Policy (Prof. Edin)
HLE-347: Politics, Policy Making and Political Action in American Education (Prof. West)
Harvard Business School
Entrepreneurship in Education Reform (Prof. Childress)
Faculty Advisors:
Litigation
Litigation is an historically significant and still often powerful force for social change. Indeed, litigation has been central to many of the most well-known and important achievements in social change work. This mode will enable students to develop an understanding of how litigation can function as a tool of social reform and in evaluating the uses and limits of litigation in this context.
Recommended Courses:
Advanced Clinical Workshop (Prof. Grossman)
The Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (Prof. Bartholet)
Child Advocacy Clinic (Ms. Budnitz)
Child, Family and State (Prof. Bartholet)
Civil Litigation Workshop (Prof. Rubenstein)
Class Actions and Other Aggregate Litigation (Prof. Ratner)
Complex Litigation and Mass Tort (Prof. Rosenberg)
Copyright and Trademark Litigation: TRO to the Supreme Court (Ms. Cendali)
Employment Law Workshop: Advocacy Skills (Mr. Churchill)
Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Change (Mr. Churchill)
Environmental Law Practice: Skills, Methods, and Controversies (Prof. Jacobs)
Evidence (Fall: Profs. Murray and Whiting; Winter: Prof. Nesson; Spring: Profs. Brewer and Hay)
Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts (Mr. Greenwald)
Federal Litigation: Civil (Prof. Rosenberg)
Government Lawyer: The Prosecutor (Prof. Whiting)
Holocaust Litigation (Mr. Ratner)
Human Rights Advocacy Seminar (Prof. Cavallaro)
Human Rights and the Environment Advocacy Seminar (Mr. Giannini )
Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Seminar (Fall and Spring (Prof. Anker))
Introduction to Advocacy: Criminal Justice (Prof. Sullivan)
Introduction to Advocacy: Criminal Prosecution Perspectives (Mr. Corrigan)
Introduction to Advocacy: Skills and Ethics in Clinical Practice (Prof. Grossman)
Legal Profession (all sections)
Mediation (Mr. Hoffman)
Negotiation and Mediation Clinical Workshop (Prof. Bordone and Mr. Smith)
Negotiation Workshop (Winter/Spring: Prof. Mnookin and others; Spring: Prof. Bordone and others)
Remedies (Mr. Ratner)
Supreme Court Litigation (Mr. Goldstein and Mr. Russell)
Supreme Court Torts (Prof. Zipursky)
Trial Advocacy Workshop (Fall: Prof. Sullivan with Ms. Elijah and Ms. Roberts; Winter: Prof. Sullivan with Ms. Ball, Hon. E. Hamilton, Hon. J. Cratsley, Ms. Styles-Anderson, and Prof. Juliar)
Faculty Advisors:
Organizational Leadership
Social change requires not only mobilization, but also creating institutions capable of sustaining movement work. Building and leading lasting organizations of this kind depends on critical contributions from lawyers. This mode will enable students to understand the ways in which law can be instrumental to the development and leadership of social change organizations.
Recommended Courses:
HLS
The Art of Social Change: Child Welfare, Education, and Juvenile Justice (Prof. Bartholet)
Child Advocacy Clinic (Ms. Budnitz)
Child, Family and State (Prof. Bartholet)
Government Lawyer: The Prosecutor (Prof. Whiting)
Introduction to Accounting and Corporate Financial Reports (Prof. Dharan)
Law of Nonprofit Organizations (Ms. Marion Fremont-Smith and Mr. Adelbert Spitzer)
Leadership in the Public Sector (Prof. Heymann)
Real Estate Law (Mr. Mechanic)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
HUT-205: Leading Cities (Profs. Williams and Goldsmith)
IGA-301: Leadership and 20th Century American Foreign Policy (Prof. Nye)
MLD-101 A: Strategy Structure, and Leadership in Public Service Organizations (Prof. Zelleke)
MLD-201: Exercising Leadership: The Politics of Change (multiple sections offered)
MLD-202: Exercising Leadership: A Cross-Cultural and International Perspective (Prof. Williams)
MLD-325: Becoming a Leader (Prof. Gergen)
MLD-327: Moral Leadership: Self, Other, and Action (Profs. Ganz and Steinberg)
MLD-336: Genius and Folly: How Leaders Use and Misuse Power (Prof. Kramer)
MLD-351: Leadership Literacy (Prof. Kellerman)
MLD-401: Financial Management in Nonprofit and Public Organizations (Prof.Thornburg)
MLD-501M: Group and Team Dynamics (Prof. Gonzalez)
MLD-601: Operations Management (Prof. Stuart)
MLD-604: Performance Leadership: Producing Results in Public and Nonprofit Agencies (Prof. Behn)
MLD-801: Strategic Management of Nonprofit and Nongovernmental Organizations (Prof. Stone)
Harvard Business School
Leading and Governing High Performing Nonprofit Organizations (Prof. Ebrahim)
Authentic Leadership Development (Prof. George)
Faculty Advisors:
Electoral Politics
Change often comes through the political arena, and perhaps no mode of change is more directly defined by law than electoral politics. Campaign finance laws and election law – along with the Constitutional issues they raise – form the heart of this Program mode, but union and non-profit participation in the electoral process is also crucial. Other important arenas are local and regional governments
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Law and Politics (Ms. Robinson)
Law and the Political Process (Prof. Guinier)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
DPI-324: Running for Office and Managing Campaigns (Prof. Jarding)
DPI-329: Driving Forces in American Politics (Profs. Kamarck and Gergen)
DPI-331: Election Reform (Prof. King)
DPI-608: Political Communications (Prof. Baum)
Faculty Advisors:
Media and the Internet
In contemporary society, almost no movement for social change succeeds without an effective media and internet component. Indeed all of the “modes” of social change listed here often depend heavily on the media and the internet. Legal regulation of these outlets is extensive, and understanding the ways in which law structures, facilitates, and constrains media and internet work is integral to understanding law and social change.
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Communications and Internet Law and Policy (Prof. Benkler)
Cyberlaw: Difficult Problems (Prof. Zittrain)
Cyberlaw and Intellectual Property Clinic (Berkman Center for Internet and Society)
Practical Lawyering in Cyberspace (Prof. Malone)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
DPI-185: 2020 Vision and Information Policy: Considering the Public Interest (Prof. Bowie)
DPI-600: Press, Politics, and Public Policy (Prof. Jones)
DPI-608: Political Communication (Prof. Baum)
DPI-611 Mass Media, Public Opinion, and U.S. Foreign Policy (Prof. Baum)
DPI-614M: Public Opinion, Polling, and Public Policy (Prof. Blendon)
DPI-659: Media, Politics and Power in the Digital Age (Prof. Mele)
DPI-684: New Media and Democracy (Prof. Bowie)
MLD-480: Leadership for a Networked World (Prof. Mechling)
MLD-717-A: The Arts of Communication (multiple sections offered)
Faculty Advisors:
Areas of Social Change
Children, Youth, and Family: Health, Welfare, and Education
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Child Advocacy Clinic (Ms. Budnitz)
Child Exploitation, Pornography, and the Internet (Ms. Rosenfeld and Ms. Sacco)
Child, Family, and State (Prof. Bartholet)
Education Advocacy and Systemic Change: Children at Risk Clinical Workshop (Ms. Cole)
Education Law and Policy (Prof. Silbaugh)
Family, Domestic Violence and LGBT Law: Litigating in the Family Courts (Mr. Greenwald)
Family Law (Prof. Halley)
International Childhood, Rights and Globalization (Prof. Bhabha)
Reproductive Technology and Genetics: Legal and Ethical Issues (Prof. Cohen)
Trusts and Estates (Prof. Sitkoff)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
HLE-111: Institutional and Community-Based Strategies to Support Children and Strengthen Families (Prof. J. Wilson)
HLE-270: Youth Development and Education Policy (Prof. Ferguson)
HLE-312: Major Issues in Federal Education Policy (Prof. Kim)
HLE-325: Effective Interventions and School Reforms for At-Risk Children (Prof. Weissbourd)
HLE-342: Tackling the Toughest Challenges for Modern American Higher Education (Prof. Light)
HLE-347: Politics, Policy Making, and Political Action in American Education (Prof. West)
Faculty Advisors:
Community Economic Development
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Community Action for Social and Economic Rights (Prof. White)
Community Enterprise Project (Prof. Price)
Community Economic Development Reading Group (Prof. Desan)
Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project (Prof. White)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
HUT-100: Policymaking in Urban Settings (Prof. Apgar)
HUT-208: Redevelopment Policy (Prof. Fainstein)
Faculty Advisors:
Criminal Justice
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Capital Punishment in America (Prof. Steiker)
Criminal Adjudication (Prof. Steiker)
Criminal Justice Workshop (Profs. Steiker and Lanni)
Criminal Law/Police Practices. Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Amendments (Prof. Weinreb)
Workshop on Crime and Criminal Justice Reform in Global Context (Prof. Stone (HKS))
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
CCJ-104: Crime, Community and Public Policy (Prof. Braga)
CCJ-202: Sociology of Crime and Punishment (Prof. Western)
Faculty Advisors:
Economic Justice
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Community Action for Social and Economic Rights (Prof. White)
Community Economic Development Reading Group (Prof. Desan)
Community Enterprise Project (Prof. Price)
Housing Law and Policy (Prof. Grossman)
Low-Income Workers (Prof. Alstott)
Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project (Prof. White)
Taxation (Fall: Profs. Halperin, and Kaplow; Spring: Profs. Alstott and A. Warren)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
MLD-410: State and Local Public Finance (Prof. Chodos)
PED-130: Why Are So Many Countries Poor, Volatile, and Unequal? (Prof. Hausmann)
PED-210: Public Finance in Theory and Practice (Prof. Rosengard)
Faculty Advisors:
Environment
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Climate Change Justice (Prof. Vandenbergh)
Environmental Law (Prof. Vandenbergh)
Environmental Law in Theory and Application (Prof. Lazarus)
Environmental Law Practice: Skills, Methods and Controversies (Prof. Jacobs)
Green New York (Prof. Frug)
Human Rights and the Environment Advocacy Seminar (Mr. Giannini)
Natural Resource Law and Policy (Prof. Purdy)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
HUT-263: Planning and Environmental Law (Prof. Blaesser)
IGA-204: Environmental and Resource Science for Policy (Prof. Holdren)
IGA-336: Environmental Justice as a Public Policy Issue (Prof. Hoyte)
Faculty Advisors:
Gender and Sexuality
Recommended Courses:
HLS
Child, Family and State (Prof. Bartholet)
Gender Violence Clinical Workshop (Ms. Rosenfeld)
Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice (Ms. Rosenfeld)
Sex Equality (Prof. MacKinnon)
Law and Sexuality Reading Group (Prof. Rubinstein)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
MLD-324M: Women and Leadership (Prof. Kellerman)
Faculty Advisors:
Health Care
Recommended Courses:
Administrative Law (all listings)
Bankruptcy (Prof. E. Warren)
Food and Drug Law (Mr. Hutt)
Health Care Reform Past, Present, and Future Reading Group (Prof. Ruger)
Health, Disability and Planning: Law and Policy Clinical Workshop (Mr. Greenwald)
Health Law and Regulation (Prof. Ruger)
Health Law Policy Workshop (Profs. Elhauge and Cohen)
Health Reform: Normative, Empirical, and Policy Perspectives (Ms. Hoffman and Mr. Robertson)
International Reproductive/Sexual Health Rights Reading Group (Ms. Roseman)
Psychiatry and the Law (Prof. Stone)
Reproductive Technology and Genetics: Legal and Ethical Issues (Prof. Cohen)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
HCP-100: Introduction to Health Care Policy (Profs. Burke and Frank)
HCP-175: Political Analysis and Strategy for U.S. Health Policy (Prof. Blendon)
HCP-382: Health Policy Reform: Comparative Perspectives (Prof. Ruggie)
IGA-325: Bioethics, Law and the Life Sciences (Prof. Jasanoff)
Faculty Advisors:
Immigration and Asylum
Recommended Courses:
HLS
International Childhood Rights and Globalization (Prof. Bhabha)
Immigration, Globalization and the Obligations of Democracies Reading Group (Prof. Rodriguez)
Immigration Law (Prof. Neuman)
Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Seminar (Fall and Spring (Prof. Anker))
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
DPI-347: American Immigration Policy (Prof. Williams)
HLE-211: The Economic Impact of Immigration (Prof. Borjas)
HLE-212: Policy, Politics and the Impact of Illegal Immigration from Latin America (Prof. Schumacher-Matos)
Faculty Advisors:
International Human Rights
Recommended Courses:
Business and Human Rights Reading Group (Prof. O'Connell)
Community Action for Social and Economic Rights (Prof. White)
Global Governance (Prof. Ruggie)
Global Human Rights Revolution: Basic Issues (Prof. Kumm)
Human Rights Advanced Reading Group (Prof. Neuman)
Human Rights Advocacy in Contemporary South Africa Clinical Seminar (Mr. Giannini and Ms. Farbstein)
Human Rights Advocacy Seminar (Prof. Cavallaro)
Human Rights Research Seminar (Prof. Glendon)
Humanitarian Protection in Situations of Armed Conflict Clinical Seminar (Ms. Docherty and Mr. Sonnenberg)
Immigration and Refugee Advocacy Seminar (Fall and Spring (Prof. Anker))
Immigration Law (Prof. Neuman)
International Childhood Rights and Globalization (Prof. Bhabha)
International Human Rights (Prof. Cavallaro)
International Humanitarian Law (Prof. Blum)
War Crimes Prosecution Workshop (Prof. Whiting)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
IGA-203: Human Rights and U.S. Foreign Policy (Prof. Power)
IGA-304: Human Rights and International Politics: The Basic Policy Dilemmas (Profs. Risse and Stewart)
Faculty Advisors:
Land Use and Property
Recommended Courses:
Copyright (Fall: Prof. Cohen; Spring: Prof. Fisher)
Housing Law and Policy (Prof. Grossman)
Intellectual Property Law: Advanced (Prof. Fisher)
Real Estate Clinic (Prof. Price)
Real Estate Law (Mr. Mechanic)
Copyright and Trademark Litigation: TRO to the Supreme Court (Ms. Cendali)
Transactional Practice Clinical Workshop (Fall and Spring (Prof. Price))
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
HUT-201: Urban Politics, Planning and Development (Prof. Altshuler)
HUT-209: History and Theory of Urban Planning Interventions (Prof. Fainstein)
HUT-263: Planning and Environmental Law (Prof. Blaesser)
HUT-268: Public and Private Development (Prof. Fainstien)
Faculty Advisors:
Poverty
Recommended Courses:
Advanced Clinical Workshop (Prof. David Grossman)
Housing Law and Policy (Prof. David Grossman)
Introduction to Advocacy (Prof. David Grossman)
Low-Income Workers (Prof. Alstott)
Post-Foreclosure Eviction Defense and Housing Law Clinical Workshop (Fall and Spring (Mr. Mares and Ms. McDonagh))
Poverty Law (Prof. White)
Predatory Lending and Consumer Protection Clinical Workshop (Fall and Spring (Messrs. Bertling and Weinstein))
Taxation (Fall: Profs. Halperin, and Kaplow; Spring: Profs. Alstott and A. Warren)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
HLE-201: Poverty and Social Policy (Prof. Edin)
Faculty Advisors:
Racial Justice
Recommended Courses:
American Indian Law (Prof. Anderson)
Capital Punishment in America (Prof. Stieker)
Colorblindness: Seminar (Prof. Haney Lopez)
Debating Race and American Law (Prof. Haney Lopez)
Employment Law Clinical Workshop: Strategies for Social Change (Mr. Churchill)
Race Relations Law: 1776-1876 (Prof. Kennedy)
Race Relations Law: 1876-the present (Prof. Kennedy)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
HLE-207: Social Structure and Culture in the Study of Race and Urban Poverty (Prof. W. Wilson)
PED-501M: Native Americans in the 21st Century: Nation Building 1 (Prof. Kalt)
Faculty Advisors:
Religious Freedom
Recommended Courses:
Introduction to Islamic Law (Prof. Johansen)
Jewish Law: Legal Thought of Maimonides (Prof. Ben-Menahem)
Jewish Law's Responses to Gentile Law: Internal Views of External Influences Advanced Reading Group (Prof. Ben-Menahem)
Laws, Markets, and Religions Reading Group (Prof. Clark)
Reproductive Technology and Genetics: Legal and Ethical Issues (Prof. Cohen)
Talmudic Law for Beginners (Prof. Ben-Menahem)
Harvard Kennedy School (not all courses offered every year)
DPI-342: Religion, Politics, and Public Policy (Prof. Parker)
DPI-225: Religion and Government: Choices of Morality, Law, and Policy (Prof. Hehir)
IGA-307: Religion in Global Politics (Prof. Toft)
Faculty Advisors:
Workplace
Recommended Courses:
Employment Civil Rights Clinical Workshop (Mr. Churchill)
Employment Law (Prof. Sachs)
Employment Law Workshop: Advocacy Skills (Mr. Churchill)
Employment Law Workshop: Strategies for Social Change (Mr. Churchill)
Labor Law (Prof. Sachs)
Low Income Workers (Prof. Alstott)
Faculty Advisors:
The Dynamics of Social Change
The Program of Study is also designed to enable students to develop a range of methodological tools – including sociological, anthropological, and historical tools – that can be deployed to understand the relationship between law and social change, both historically and in contemporary society. Faculty available to assist students in this endeavor include Professors Chris Desan, Janet Halley, Michael Klarman, Adriaan Lanni, Ken Mack, Todd Rakoff, Jeannie Suk, and Jed Shugerman.
Organizing Ourselves: Building a Community at Harvard
At the heart of the Program of Study is an effort to build a community of students and faculty committed to understanding and using law as a means of achieving social change. The Program will hold regular meetings with faculty who can answer questions about course selection, summer plans, and career decisions. The Program also plans to facilitate student programming on social change topics through our online “Sidebar” feature and through more traditional means of getting together. Additionally, we will highlight the work of Program students do by posting papers, briefs, and press clippings. The Program website will also feature interviews with students and faculty as a way of publicizing their work.
Academic Careers
Students who wish to pursue academic careers in this area should combine the course work discussed above with opportunities for significant research and writing.
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