Courses and Reading Groups
Harvard is leading the way with innovative thinking about how law might be best taught in a world linked by converging and competing legal systems, technology, and a relative ease of scholarly exchange.HLS' classes blend the domestic and the international with instruction offered from a range of vantage points. Formats include lectures, Socratic-method discussions, seminars, reading groups that many faculty members host in their homes, clinics, and workshops (and even some in which students are invited to critique and debate the work in progress of leading international law scholars). And teaching and learning are shaped by the presence of foreign professors and students who are a vital part of the fabric of HLS.
This integrated internationalism means that experiencing international legal studies at Harvard does not require a set course of study. One can certainly pursue a trajectory rich in international human rights, global trade, or development finance. Yet international, comparative, and foreign law are also taught in "classic" subjects of U.S. law, having spilled over their traditional boundaries into such areas as procedure, contracts, and property. As a result, they now influence the study of administrative law and antitrust, local government and corporate governance, family law and constitutional law, to name just a few areas.
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