Call for Postdoctoral Fellow Applications
We are now accepting applications! Materials are due by 9:00 am on February 28, 2023. See the call for applications for additional details and requirements.
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Private Law – Description
Postdoctoral Fellowship in Private Law – Call for Applications
Call for Student Fellow Applications
The Project on the Foundations of Private Law is no longer accepting applications for student fellowships for 2021-2022. Check back in the summer of 2022 for information about student fellowships for 2022-2023.
Private Law Courses, 2022-2023
Harvard Law School offers many courses that deal with private law subjects, at least in part. A list of courses offered in 2022-2023 is available here. This list is not necessarily exhaustive.
Private Law Prizes
2022:
- Julia Keller, J.D. ’22, for “Eavesdropping: The Forgotten Public Nuisance”
2021:
- 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”
2020:
- Joao Marinotti, J.D. ’20, for “Tangibility as Technology: Tech-Neutrality in Property Law”
2019:
- Jiaxiong Daryl Xu, LL.M. ’19 for “Negotiating Damages: Rationalizing the Compensatory View”
2018:
- Richard Liu, LL.M. ’18 for “Agreements to Negotiate in Good Faith in the US and England: Polar Opposites or Much the Same?”
2017:
- 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”
2016:
- 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”
2015:
- 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”
2014:
- David Feder, JD ’14 for “Toward a Functional Rule of Beneficiary Standing”
2013:
- 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”