• LAW 7764

    Concepts in Policing: Challenges and Application (SC)
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.47

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This short course will focus on selected topics that pose contentious policy challenges for law enforcement, including crafting and implementing effective crime control strategies, implementing investigative practices that are both fair and useful, establishing rules to govern investigations of political activity, and calibrating use of force policies to maximize both officer and civilian safety.

  • LAW 7769

    The Evolving AI Governance Landscape (SC)
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This short course will explore pressing issues in AI governance, the underlying perspectives and motivations of the different players in AI governance debates around the world, and areas where legislative and regulatory activity is most active.

  • LAW 7779

    Topics in Private Company Acquisitions (SC)
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.51

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    Corporate Mergers and Acquisitions of private companies is very different from public company transactions. This course explores the structuring and negotiating of private deals by strategic (another company) and financial (private equity) purchasers through detailed discussion of and exercises focused on actual transactions.

  • LAW 7780

    Taxing Multinationals in a Global Economy (SC)
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     GPA

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This is a short course about how countries tax the income of multinational companies. The course will provide an overview of the fundamentals of U.S. transfer pricing rules in the global context, with due attention to how countries work out their differences when it comes to sharing the tax base.

  • LAW 7786

    Current Topics in Law, Medicine, and Society (SC)
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.44

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    This discussion-based course will examine in depth a number of current topics in law, medicine, and society, such as organ transplantation, recent human research scandals, vaccination policy, unilateral treatment withdrawal, and posthumous reproduction. Topics vary year to year.

  • LAW 7798

    The Business of Banking and Prudential Regulation (SC)
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.54

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    The course will focus on the prudential regulation of banking through capital, liquidity, and related requirements. It will begin by describing the business of banking before turning to prudential regulation and finishing with an in-depth look at the Liquidity Coverage Ratio in Basel III.

  • LAW 7799

    Topics in Public Equity Investing (SC)
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.51

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This short course focuses on public equity investing and related company analysis. The course is designed to give students a practical understanding of how professional equity investors at large investment firms analyze companies and make investment decisions.

  • LAW 7816

    Postgraduate Public Interest Fellowships (SC)
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.51

    Last Taught

    Spring 2026

    Developing a successful project proposal for a postgraduate public interest fellowship requires multifaceted research, creativity, and strategic advocacy. In this class, students interested in becoming public interest attorneys will learn about the process for developing a fellowship project; conduct research about a timely legal problem that motivates them; and design, in collaboration with others, the foundations for a compelling project.

  • LAW 7821

    Advancing the Commitment to Service Through Law Firm Pro Bono (SC)
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.46

    Last Taught

    Spring 2025

    This short course will explore the history of pro bono at law firms, how law firms partner with public interest organizations on impact litigation and policy reform, how law firms measure social impact, and the relationship between pro bono and other aspects of law firm practice and culture.

  • LAW 7825

    Internal Investigations (SC)
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     Difficulty

     GPA

    3.56

    Last Taught

    Fall 2025

    This short course will explore why internal investigations are initiated, how they are conducted, and what remedial actions may follow from their results. The course will combine practical considerations that impact internal investigations with the legal parameters controlling them. Course work will be a combination of lectures, discussions, and skills work such as conducting interviews and developing investigative plans.