The first class will meet Wed., Sept 1, and the schedule for the rest of the Sept classes is as follows. Class will be held on Tues, Sept 7; Mon, Sept 13; Tues, Sept 14; Mon, Sept 27, Tues, Sept 28 and Wed, Sept 29.
A course syllabus will be posted on the course web site the week of Aug 23.
For the first day of class, please read the Report from the Congressional Research Service on the BP Oil Spill (contact curley at law.harvard.edu for a copy of report), and pp. 1-20 in the casebook, Farber, Freeman, Carlson, Environmental Law (8th Ed.)
As a reminder, laptops and other electronic devices will not be allowed in class.
The course syllabus is now posted on the course web site. All assignments are from Frug, Ford, and Barron “Local Government Law” (5th ed. 2009). Please read the assignment listed in the syllabus for our first class on Tuesday, September 7.
First class will be on Tuesday, Sept 7. No assignment for the first class. It will be an organizational meeting. The Course Syllabus is posted on the course web site.
This winter term 2010-11 course will explore difficult problems in cyberlaw, presented by guests who must grapple with them. Guests will include academics, technologists, businesspeople, regulators, and social entrepreneurs whose puzzles may require solutions that span disciplines and approaches. Students’ final contributions will be to make progress on one of the problems.
IMPORTANT NOTE: The course is jointly offered with Stanford Law School and will meet at Stanford. Students from Harvard will have air transportation and lodging in Silicon Valley provided for the time they are in residence there during January term.
Students must be prepared to take an active role in planning and executing the course and to embrace experimentation in course format and with new technologies. Prerequisites: at least one course in cyberlaw or copyright. Last year’s course site may be helpful in giving a sense of the course (see http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/cyberlaw_winter10/).
The particular problems taken up in the course will be new, and they will be determined and shaped by a corresponding fall term planning seminar at HLS.
Students interested in enrolling in this course can now access the application web site at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/forms/cyberlaw2011.cgi. The deadline for all applications is August 1, 2010. Students may apply for the winter difficult problems course, the fall planning seminar, or both.
Professor Stuntz will offer Federal Criminal Law this fall Th, F 1:15 PM – 2:45 PM. For the course description see:
http://www.law.harvard.edu/academics/courses/2010-11/?id=8308.
An information session for the Ghana Project will take place on Monday, March 29, from 12:15 – 1:30 in Griswold 550.
To apply for the course, send a one-page statement of interest and one-page resume to Ellen Keng ( ekeng at law.harvard.edu) by 5:00pm on WEDNESDAY, March 31. PLEASE NOTE EXTENSION OF APPLICATION DEADLINE. Applicants will be notified of their acceptance in advance of the clinical registration deadline. Email Professor White (lwhite) if you have any questions about the course.
From March 1 to March 6, the Harvard Law Coop will be having a Coop Study Aide Sale. All week, you can buy anything from Aspen to West and save 15% on your study aide purchases! In addition, there will be a raffle and giveaways.
This deal is only available for Coop members. Interested in joining? It’s just a $1 per year, and last year all members received a 7.3% rebate!
This is all available at the Harvard Law Coop (1678 Massachusetts Ave.). For more information, call (617) 499-3255 or check it out at www.thecoop.com.
The process of returning books at the HLS Coop will begin March 1, 2010. If you have not yet purchased your books, now is an excellent time to do so. If you have any questions regarding Coop return policy, please stop by the bookstore or call them at (617) 499-3255.
The text for the course in Administrative Law is Strauss, Rakoff & Farina: Gellhorn and Byse’s Administrative Law-Cases and Comments – Revised 10th Ed., 2003 – together with the accompanying 2007 Supplement.
There will also be a set of xeroxed materials and occasional handouts. For the first class meeting on Wednesday, January 27, please read xeroxed pages 1-17 – available at the Distribution Center (beginning at noon on Monday, Jan. 25) and posted to the course website under Course Documents.
Assignments for our first week’s classes are included in the syllabus of readings for the course, including book information (Jackson & Tushnet – Comparative Constitutional Law-Second Edition-2006-Foundation Press – available at Law School Coop), that is posted on the course website (click on “Syllabus”).
Please come to our first week’s classes prepared to discuss what you see as the point or points of learning about comparative constitutional law — for yourself personally, for legal professionals, and for citizens at large. Then what about for judges engaged in the decision of pending cases? Look or don’t look? Cite or don’t cite? Do your answers reflect any possibly debatable assumptions about why a country (or your country) has its constitutional law, or about the ways in which a country (or your country) uses or relies on its constitutional law, or about the aims and methods of constitutional interpretation?
Class will meet on Tuesdays from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Pound 202. Readings for our first class session can be downloaded now from the Syllabus page on the course website http://myhls.law.harvard.edu/course/hls-…) or picked up in hard copy form at the HLS Copy Center.
If you are on the waitlist and wish to remain there, you must attend the first class session.
Class will meet on Thursdays from 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. in Lewis 302. Readings for our first class session can be downloaded now from the Syllabus page on the course website http://myhls.law.harvard.edu/course/hls-…) or picked up in hard copy form at the HLS Copy Center beginning the afternoon of Thursday, January 21.
If you are on the waitlist and wish to remain there, you must attend the first class session.
Your first assignment has been sent to you by email. Contact Ellen Keng ( ekeng at law.harvard.edu) if you have not received it.
Folks enrolled or waitlisted in the Experts Class:
By now, you should have received two emails from me, one dealing with the policy regarding the waitlist (you must attend the first two days of class to remain on the waitlist), the second dealing with the first week’s reading. If you have not received these emails, please contact me (Professor Greiner).
Class will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays at 3:20-4:50 P.M. in Hauser 104.
Readings for the course are photocopied materials available at Distribution. For our first class, on Monday, January 25, 2010, please read photocopied items # 1-# 10.
John Rawls, Justice As Fairness: A Restatement (Harvard University Press, 2001) (paper), will be available for purchase at the Harvard Law Coop, and everyone is expected to have a copy. If you own or can arrange for handy access to copies of A Theory of Justice and of Political Liberalism, that would be great. Please know, however, that I have arranged for multiple copies of those books, and Rawls’s other, relevant writings, to be on reserve for the seminar at the law school library. In addition to material from Rawls, I will be assigning or suggesting numerous articles and book chapters by other authors, which will include extensive accounts of Rawls’s ideas, and all of those will be available for download, either from the course website or from online resources reachable through your Harvard library access (“HOLLIS”).
A draft syllabus for the twelve seminar sessions is available at this site (click on “Syllabus”). It contains the reading assignment for our first session (“1. Overview of Political Liberalism”). Further, advance preparation notes for each session will be found under “Supplemental Course Materials,” so please look there for advance preparation notes for our first session. Where assigned materials have been posted to the course website, they also will be found under “Supplemental Course Materials.” (Please note that journal articles are to be obtained through your Harvard Library access (HOLLIS/e-journals). Anyone in doubt about how to do this should get in touch with me ( fmichel at law.harvard.edu).
FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN LEGAL THOUGHT (GLENDON): For the first two meetings, Thursday and Friday, January 28 and 29, please read the following sections of Plato’s Laws: Books I, III, IV and V.
The textbook for this course will be Cox, Bok, Gorman and Finkin, Labor Law: Cases and Materials, Fourteenth Edition (Foundation Press). It is currently available at the Law School Coop. In addition, a bound set of Supplemental Materials [Supp.] containing the readings also posted to the course website is available for pickup from the Distribution Center. The Syllabus is also available at the Distribution Center (and posted on the course website).
The assignment for the first day of class is as follows:
-Steven Henry Lopez, Reorganizing the Rust Belt (2004) [Supp. 1-5];
-Vegelahn v. Guntner, 167 Mass. 92 (1896), in Cox, Bok, Gorman and Finkin, Labor Law Cases and Materials, Fourteenth Edition [Textbook 17-22];
-Plant v. Woods, 176 Mass. 492 (1900) [Textbook 23-27];
-Background Material on the National Labor Relations Act (Textbook 72-85];
-J.I. Case Co. v. NLRB, 321 U.S. 332 (1944) [Textbook 376-79].
On the first day of class, I will ask for volunteers to discuss the assigned materials. After the first day of class, students should be prepared to be called on to discuss the assigned materials, although volunteers and discussion will always be welcome.