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Private Law Courses Offered at Harvard Law School Academic Year 2025-2026
In addition to the core first-year private law courses, 2025-2026, Harvard Law School will offer the following courses, seminars and reading groups relevant to private law:
Fall 2025
Antitrust and Intellectual Property (2 credit seminar)
Copyright (4 credit course)
Copyright and Trademark Litigation (2 credit course)
Deals (2 credit course)
Law and Economics (2 credit course)
Jurisprudence: Mainstream Versus Critical (2 credit course)
Patent Law (3 credit course)
Private Law and Climate Change (1 credit reading group)
Theories About Law (2 credit course)
Trusts and Estates (4 credit course)
Spring 2026
American Legal Theory (2 credit course)
Copyright (4 credit course)
Deals (4 credit course)
English Legal History (3 credit course)
Equity (2 credit seminar)
Estate Planning (2 credit seminar)
Graduate Student Workshop in Contracts and Organizations (1 credit course)
Jurisprudence (3 credit course)
Law and Economics (2 credit course)
Law and Political Economy (3 credit course)
Patent Trial Advocacy (3 credit course)
Privacy Law (4 credit course)
Teaching Copyright (2 credit seminar)
Trademark and Unfair Competition (3 credit course)
Water Law (2 credit course)
Private Law Prizes
- Julia Keller, J.D. ’22, for “Eavesdropping: The Forgotten Public Nuisance”
- Shani Shisha, S.J.D., for “The Copyright Wasteland”
- Benjamin Sobel, J.D. ’21, for “HiQ v. LinkedIN, Clearview AI, and a New Common Law of Web Scraping”
- Joao Marinotti, J.D. ’20, for “Tangibility as Technology: Tech-Neutrality in Property Law”
- Jiaxiong Daryl Xu, LL.M. ’19 for “Negotiating Damages: Rationalizing the Compensatory View”
- Richard Liu, LL.M. ’18 for “Agreements to Negotiate in Good Faith in the US and England: Polar Opposites or Much the Same?”
- Lauren Brazier, LLM ’17 for “Contemporary Developments in the Law of Tracing: Towards a New Theory of Equitable Tracing”
- Zhong Tan, LLM ’17 for “Disruptive Doctrinalism: Relational Contract Theory and the Province of Private Law”
- Ahson Azmat JD ’17 for “Torts are Wrongs: But are Torts Wrongs? Two Problems for Civil Recourse Theory”
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Ben Hai LLM ’16 for “Restitutionary Mitigation in Unjust Enrichment”
- Malcom M. Lavoie LLM ’15 for “Why Restrain Alienation of Indigenous Lands? Historical, Comparative, and Theoretical Insights from Common Law Countries”
- Kevin M. Neylan, Jr. JD ’15 for “Bundled Systems and Better Law: Against the Leflar Method of Resolving Conflicts of Law”
- David Feder, JD ’14 for “Toward a Functional Rule of Beneficiary Standing”
- Michael Harbour, JD ’13 for “The Relationship Between Rights and Remedies in Private Law: A Defense of Rights Essentialism”
- Ee Kuan Tan, LLM ’13 for “Rediscovering Subjective Devaluation”