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Harvard Law School Course Catalog 2016-2017 Academic Year March 22, 2019 2:07 AM Administrative Law Course #: 2000 Term: 2017SP Faculty: Freeman, Jody Credits: 3.00 Type: Multisection Subject Areas: Constitutional Law & Civil Rights; Government Structure & Function; Regulatory Law Delivery Mode: Course Days and Times: Location Thu 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM LAN225 Fri 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM LAN225 Course Description: Prerequisites: None Exam: One Day Take-Home This course will study the law governing federal administrative agencies, and related matters of policy and theory. Using the material covered in the first-year "Legislation and Regulation" course as a foundation, this class will cover a variety of more advanced topics, including the structure and function of administrative agencies; the role of agencies in interpreting statutes and regulations; the legal framework governing administrative adjudication as opposed to regulation; the presidents power to supervise the executive branch; congressional delegation and principal-agent problems; the theory and practice of statutory interpretation; and the appropriate role of private actors in the administrative process. The central theme of the course will be on the need to manage the tension between flexibility and constraint in the administrative state. Administrative Law Course #: 2000 Term: 2016FA Faculty: Sunstein, Cass Credits: 3.00 Type: Multisection Subject Areas: Constitutional Law & Civil Rights; Government Structure & Function; Regulatory Law Delivery Mode: Course Days and Times: Location Tue 10:20 AM - 11:50 AM PND102 Wed 10:20 AM - 11:50 AM PND102 Course Description: Prerequisites: None Exam Type: In-Class This course will examine the legal controls on government regulation, in areas as diverse as environmental law, national security, communications, foreign affairs, taxation, labor-management relations, and much more. Pervasive questions will involve the constitutional legitimacy of "the regulatory state"; the procedures that are supposed to improve and discipline agency decisions; the right to a hearing; the role of cost-benefit analysis; and the allocation of power between regulators and judges. A distinctive feature of the course will be frequent focus on democratic theory, on regulatory policy, and on how administrative law can actually make society work better or worse. Harvard Law School Course Catalog 2016-2017 Academic Year March 22, 2019 2:07 AM Administrative Law Course #: 2000 Term: 2017SP Faculty: Vermeule, Adrian Credits: 4.00 Type: Multisection Subject Areas: Constitutional Law & Civil Rights; Government Structure & Function; Regulatory Law Delivery Mode: Course Days and Times: Location Wed 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM AUS111 Thu 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM AUS111 Course Description: Prerequisites: None Exam: In Class This course will study law making and law application by executive departments of government. Using the material covered in the first-year "Legislation and Regulation" course as a foundation, this class will cover a variety of topics, including the legal framework (both constitutional and statutory) that governs administrative rulemaking and adjudication; the proper role of agencies in interpreting statutory and regulatory law; and judicial review of agency decisions. The central theme of the course is how the law manages the tension between "rule of law" values (e.g., procedural regularity, accountability, and substantive limits on arbitrary action) and the desire for flexible, effective administrative governance. Note: This course is open to upper-level JDs only. A handful of class meetings will need to be rescheduled to Fridays from 1pm to 3pm. The following class sessions will be cancelled on Thursdays, February 2 and 16, March 9, and April 20 (tentative). The make-up sessions for these classes will be rescheduled to the following Fridays, February 24, March 3 & 31. Should the April 20th class meeting be cancelled, an additional make-up session will be scheduled. Harvard Law School Course Catalog 2016-2017 Academic Year March 22, 2019 2:07 AM Advanced Antitrust Seminar Course #: 2449 Term: 2017SP Faculty: Elhauge, Einer Credits: 2.00 Type: Elective Subject Areas: Business Organization, Commercial Law, and Finance; Regulatory Law Delivery Mode: Seminar Days and Times: Location Mon 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM WCC3009 Course Description: Prerequisites: None. Exam Type: No exam. This seminar will address current hotly debated topic of antitrust law and economics. Students will participate orally and write short response papers on the readings for 10 classes of their choosing out of the 12 weeks. Advanced Clinical Practice Course #: 2001 Term: 2016FS Faculty: Caramello, Esme; Whiting, Patricia Credits: 2.00 Type: Elective Subject Areas: Procedure & Practice Delivery Mode: Course Days and Times: Location Thu 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WCC3016 Course Description: Students who enroll in this course may count the credits towards the JD experiential learning requirement. Required Clinic Component: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 3L (4 fall clinical credits + 4 spring clinical credits). This clinic and course are bundled; your enrollment in the clinic will automatically enroll you in this required course. Additional Co-/Pre-Requisites: Harvard Legal Aid Bureau 2L. By Permission: Yes. This course is restricted to members of HLAB 3L. Add/Drop Deadline: None.LLM Students: LLM students are not eligible to enroll. Multi-Semester: This is a fall-spring course (1 fall classroom credit + 1 spring classroom credit). This workshop, which is required for all 3L members of the Harvard Legal Aid Bureau, provides students with the opportunity to engage in further critical self-reflection on their clinical experience, focusing on their roles as advocates, mentors, and law office managers and incorporating readings on issues of poverty law and legal services delivery. The class will be graded credit/fail. Enrollment in this course is restricted to 3L Harvard Legal Aid Bureau members, and will not be in clinical registration. HLAB members in their 3L year in 2016-2017 will automatically be enrolled in this seminar. Harvard Law School Course Catalog 2016-2017 Academic Year March 22, 2019 2:07 AM Advanced Con Law Seminar: "Constitutional Silences" Course #: 2675 Term: 2016FA Faculty: Tribe, Laurence Credits: 2.00 Type: Elective Subject Areas: Constitutional Law & Civil Rights Delivery Mode: Seminar Days and Times: Location Wed 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM WCC3012 Course Description: Prerequisites: By permission of instructor.  No prior courses, but general familiarity with U.S. constitutional doctrine and/or history would be a big help. Enrollment: Enrollment will be limited to 12 and will be by permission of the instructor, based on written applications that include (1) the applicant’s CV and unofficial list of courses and instructors, including those the applicant plans to take concurrently with this seminar in Fall 2016, and (2) a brief (no more than 1 or 2 double-spaced pages) statement of interest. No auditors will be allowed. All applications must be submitted electronically to Kathy McGillicuddy ([email protected]), with copies to Professor Tribe ([email protected]). Only students who are prepared to make a firm commitment to enroll in the seminar in the event they are admitted should apply. Students who have already applied this spring or summer without focusing on this requirement should either withdraw their applications or reapply by the deadline of Aug. 26, indicating acceptance of this condition. Deadlines: Final seminar applications are due electronically no later than 4 PM on Friday, August 26. Applicants should submit their materials as attachments, both to me, [email protected], and to my faculty assistant, Kathy McGillicuddy, [email protected].  Those who are admitted will be notified by Friday, September 2. Exam type: No exam. Required texts: None. All assigned materials will be posted online and/or available in hardcopy form at Hauser 418. Other course requirements: In addition to attending and participating in every seminar meeting, each student will be responsible for writing four very short papers (5 double-spaced pages max for each paper) during the course of the seminar. The paper topics will be assigned a week before the papers are due. All papers will be due two days before the session in which they will be used to facilitate class discussion of the assigned materials. No papers will be due on Monday Sept. 5 because the Sept. 7 class will be devoted to overview and introduction. Each paper must be paginated for ease of reference and must be submitted by email as a Word document circulated to every student in the class as well as to Professor Tribe and to Kathy at the email addresses listed in paragraph 4, above. Course contents: In the beginning, there was silence. In the end, there will be silence. Without silence, there is no sound. Without sound, we can’t define silence. Few fortune cookies reveal messages worth saving. An exception is one contained in a cookie at a much-frequented Chinese restaurant in Cambridge: "Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see." It turns out that the author of that haunting image wasn’t some anonymous writer laboring away in some fortune cookie factory and destined to remain permanently hidden from view, but none other than Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., in an early sermon reprinted in his 1958 book, The Measure of a Man. In Philosophical Investigations §6, Wittgenstein said: “Uttering
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