The following is a list of faculty, their expertise and courses that LIDS members may find to be of interest at Harvard Law School. These lists do not represent a comprehensive list of law and development offerings at HLS, and these courses and/or faculty members may not be offered every year, but they are meant to be useful suggestions for students interested in law and development.
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Professor Name |
Areas of Interest |
Courses Taught |
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William Alford |
· Chinese Law and Legal History · Legal Aspects of International Trade and Technology Transfer · The Legal Profession |
· Comparative Law: Why Law? Lessons from China · International Law Workshop: Global Governance |
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Antony Anghie |
· Public International Law · The history and theory of international law · Human Rights · Development and international economic law and institutions · Third world approaches to international law |
· International Law and Imperialism, spring 2011 |
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Mark Barnes |
· Served as executive director from 2004-2009 of Harvard AIDS treatment programs in Nigeria, Tanzania and Botswana |
· Health Law, spring 2011 |
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Rachel Brewster |
· International Law and International Relations Theory · International Trade |
· International Law and International Relations Theory · International Trade Law · Law and the International Economy |
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Christine Desan |
· Civil Procedure · Constitutional History · Legal History · Legal Theory |
· Legal Architecture of Globalization: The History and Institutional Development of Money and Finance · Legal History: Workshop on the Political Economy of Modern Capitalism |
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Lani Guinier |
· Access to Higher Education · Critical Perspectives on Race, Gender, and Class · Law and Social Change |
· Law and Social Movements · Law and the Political Process: Seminar |
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David Kennedy |
· Law and development discourse · Anti-corruption law · Expertise among development practitioners |
· Law and Development |
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Duncan Kennedy |
· Law and Third World Economic Development · Left Wing Law and Economics · Legal History · Legal Theory · Low Income Housing · Private Law Theory |
· Gender in Postcolonial Legal Orders
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Chibli Mallat |
· Middle Eastern and Islamic Laws · EU Law · Non-violence, law, war · Comparative constitutional theory · Comparative contracts |
· Middle Eastern Law and Law and War in Spring 2011 |
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Dean Martha Minow |
· Equality and Inequality · Human Rights and Transitional Societies · Law and Social Change · Religion and Pluralism |
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Brian Price |
· Community Economic Development · Entertainment Law · Small Business and Micro-Enterprise Development |
· Transactional Law Clinic |
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Dani Rodrik |
· Economic Development · International Economics · Political Economy |
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John Ruggie |
· Impact of globalization on global rule making and the evolving global political order |
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Michael Stein |
· Executive director of the HLS Project on Disability |
· The Human Rights Frontier: Disability Rights in Comparative and International Perspectives in the spring 2011 |
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Matthew Stephenson |
· Administrative Law · Environmental Law · Law & Development · Law & Positive Political Theory |
· Legislation and Regulation · Administrative Law |
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Roberto Unger |
· Legal, Political, and Social Theory |
· Crisis, Globalization, and Economics · Past and Future of the Left · Religion and its Future · Self, Serenity, and Vulnerability: East and West
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Lucie White |
· Anti-poverty Law, Policy, and Pedagogy |
· Community Action for Social and Economic Rights · Making Rights Real: The Ghana Project · Poverty Law |
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Mark Wu |
· International Trade · International Economic Law · International intellectual property · Globalization and the law of developing countries |
· International Trade Law |