Courses

Courses taught at Harvard Law School on topics related
to corporate governance include the following:

2024-2025

Spring

Winter

Fall

2023-2024

Spring

Winter

Fall

2022-2023

Spring

Winter

Fall

2021-2022

Spring

Winter

Fall

2020-2021

Spring

Winter

Fall

2019-2020

Spring

  • Analytical Methods for Lawyers
  • Business Strategy for Lawyers
  • Business Valuation and Analysis
  • Conceptions of Legal Entities
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance: Short-Termism and Current Controversies
  • Corporate Reorganization
  • Corporations
    • Professor Anthony Casey
    • Professor Robert Clark
  • Cross Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process
  • Deals
  • Entrepreneurial Agreements and Startup Decisions
  • FinTech
  • Index Funds and the Concentration of Corporate Ownership
  • Institutional Investors and Alternative Investment Forms: Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Hedge Funds
  • International Investment Arbitration: Policies, Issues and Challenges
  • Investments Workshop: Public and Private Equity
  • Law and Economics
  • Law and Finance of Venture Capital and Start-ups
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Securities Regulation
  • Taxation of Business Corporations
  • Valuing and Modeling M&A and LBOs

Winter

  • Bankruptcy
  • Corporations
  • Financial Analysis and Business Valuation
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics
  • Structuring Venture Capital, Private Equity, and Entrepreneurial Transactions

Fall

  • Advanced Corporate Transactions
  • Bankruptcy
  • Comparative Corporate Law, Finance and Governance
  • Controlling Shareholders
  • Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
  • Corporate Criminal Investigations
  • Corporations
    • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
    • Professor Reinier Kraakman
    • Professor Jennifer Taub
  • Current Issues in Corporate Governance
  • Empirical Law and Finance
  • International Investment Arbitration
  • Introduction to Finance Concepts
  • Investing in VC Funds
  • Investment Management Law: Private Funds and Other Issues
  • Law and Business
  • Law and Economics
  • Legal History: History of American Economic Regulation
  • Regulation of Financial Institutions
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Securities Regulation
  • Securities Regulation: Law and Policy
  • The Corporation as a Citizen
  • Venture Law and Finance

2018-2019

Spring

  • Advisor Liability in M&A
  • Bankruptcy: Current Issues
  • Conceptions of Legal Entities
  • Controlling Shareholders
  • Corporate Reorganization
  • Corporations
    • Professor Robert Clark
    • Professor Holger Spamann
  • Cross Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process
  • Deals
  • Empirical Law and Economics
  • Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
  • Executive and Board Turnover in the S&P 500: Research Seminar
  • FinTech
  • Hedge and Private Equity Funds: Law and Policy
  • Law and Economics
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Securities Regulation
  • Taxation of Business Corporations
  • Valuing and Modeling M&A and LBOs

Winter

  • Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics
  • Venture Law and Finance

Fall

  • Advanced Corporate Transactions
  • Anatomy of Deal Litigation in Practice
  • The Art and Science of Financial Regulation
  • Bankruptcy
  • Bankruptcy: Current Issues
  • Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
  • Comparative Corporate Governance
  • Corporate Criminal Investigations
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporations from a Comparative Perspective
  • Corporate Governance: The Short-Termism Problem
  • Corporate Tax B: Mergers, Acquisitions and Divisions
  • Corporations
    • Professor Holger Spamann
    • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
    • Professor Jesse Fried
    • Professor Reinier Kraakman
  • Current Issues in Corporate Governance
  • Empirical Law and Finance
  • International Investment Arbitration
  • Law and Economics
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Regulation of Financial Institutions
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Securities Regulation

2017-2018

Spring

  • Advanced Topics in Financial Regulation
  • Capital Markets Regulation
  • Corporate Governance: The Short-Termism Problem
  • Corporate Reorganization
  • Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
  • Corporations
    • Professor Robert Clark
    • Professor Holger Spamann
    • Professor Guhan Subramanian
  • Cross Border M&A: Drafting, Negotiation & the Auction Process
  • Current Issues in Securities Regulation
  • Hedge and Private Equity Funds: Law & Policy
  • International Investment Arbitration: Policies, Issues and Challenges
  • Law and Economics
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Topics in Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Valuing and Modeling M&A and LBOs
  • Venture Law and Finance

Winter

  • Law and Business
  • Capstone Seminar for the LL.M. Concentration in Comparative Law, Finance, and Corporate Governance

Fall

  • Advanced Corporate Transactions
  • Challenges of a General Counsel
  • Corporate Governance: The Short-Termism Problem
  • Corporate Tax B: Mergers, Acquisitions and Divisions
  • Corporations
    • Professor John Coates
    • Professor Jesse Fried
    • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
  • Law and Economics
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Regulation of Financial Institutions
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Securities Regulation
  • The Art and Science of Financial Regulation

2016-2017

Spring

  • Corporate Boards and Governance
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Reorganization
  • Corporations
    • Professor Guhan Subramanian
    • Professor Holger Spamann
    • Professor Robert Clark
  • Drafting and Negotiating Cross-Border Merger & Acquisition Transactions
  • Empirical Law and Economics
  • Entrepreneurial Agreements and Startup Decisions
  • Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
  • Hedge Fund Law and Policy
  • Institutional Investors and Alternative Investment Forms: Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Hedge Funds
  • Law and Economics Seminar
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Processes and Structures
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Topics in Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Valuing and Modeling M&A and LBOs

Winter

  • Globalization: Business, Legal and Public Policy Issues
  • Introduction to Empirical Methods
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics
  • Securities Litigation

Fall

  • Bankruptcy
  • Boards of Directors and Corporate Governance
  • Comparative Corporate Law, Finance and Governance
  • Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
  • Corporations
    • Professor John Coates
    • Professor Reinier Kraakman
    • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
  • Current Issues in Corporate Governance
  • Investment Management Law: Private Funds, Money Market Funds and Other Issues
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Regulation of Financial Institutions
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Securities Regulation
  • Venture Law and Finance

2015-2016

Spring

  • Advanced Corporate Transactions
  • Antitrust Law
  • Business Valuation and Analysis
  • Capital Markets Regulation
  • Comparative Corporate Governance
  • Conceptions of Legal Entities
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Governance and Finance of the Public Firm
  • Corporate Reorganization
  • Corporations
    • Professor Ryan Bubb
    • Professor Robert Clark
    • Professor Holger Spamann
  • Deals
  • Empirical Methods in Corporate, Securities and Capital Markets Law
  • Hedge Fund Law and Policy
  • International Corporate Debt Solutions and Cross-Border Insolvency
  • International Finance
  • Introduction to Finance Concepts
  • Introduction to Securities Regulation
  • Law and Economics
  • Law and Finance of Start-Up Companies
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Research Seminar: Management Turnover in the S&P 500
  • Valuing and Modeling M&A and LBOs

Winter

  • Bankruptcy
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics
  • Securities Litigation

Fall

  • Bankruptcy
  • Boards of Directors and Corporate Governance
  • Comparative Corporate Governance
  • Controlling Shareholders
  • Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
  • Corporations
    • Professor Andrew Gold
    • Professor Reinier Kraakman
    • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
  • Current Issues in Corporate Governance
  • Insider Share Ownership, Management Compensation, and CEO Turnover in U.S. Public Corporations
  • Law and Business
  • Law and Economics
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Split-Ups
  • Regulation of Financial Institutions
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • The Art and Science of Financial Regulation
  • The Law and Finance of the Japanese Firm
  • Topics in Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Venture Law and Finance

2014-2015

Spring

  • Boards of Directors and Corporate Governance
  • Capital Markets Regulation
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Reorganization
  • Corporations
    • Professor Robert Clark
    • Professor David Skeel
  • Governance of U.S. Public Corporations
  • Law and Economics
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Securities Litigation
  • Topics in Financial Regulation: Consumer and Investor Protection
  • Topics in Mergers and Acquisitions

Fall/Spring

  • Laws, Markets, and Religions
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations

Winter

  • Bankruptcy
  • Venture Law and Finance

Fall

  • Bankruptcy
  • Bankruptcy Deal-Making
  • Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
  • Corporations
    • Professor John Coates
    • Professor Reinier Kraakman
    • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
    • Professor Jesse Fried
  • Current Issues in Corporate Governance
  • Hedge Fund Law and Regulation
  • Law and Economics
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Split-Ups
  • Regulation of Financial Institutions
  • Research Seminar in Law, Economics, and Organizations
  • Securities Regulation
  • The Art and Science of Financial Regulation
  • Topics in Mergers and Acquisitions

2013-2014

Spring

  • Corporate Governance and Finance of the Public Firm
  • Corporate Reorganization
  • Corporations
    • Professor Robert Clark
    • Professor Jon Hanson
    • Professor Guhan Subramanian
  • Current Issues in Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance
  • International Corporate Debt Solutions and Cross-Border Insolvency
  • International Finance
  • Law and Economics
  • Law, Economics, and Organizations Research
  • Legal History: History of American Economic Regulation
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Securities Regulation
  • Taxation of Business Corporations
  • Venture Law and Finance

Fall/Spring

  • Law and Business
  • Law, Economics, and Organizations Research

Fall

  • Comparative Corporate Governance: USA, Western Europe, Asia
  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporate Finance: Advanced
  • Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
  • Corporations
    • Assistant Professor Holger Spamann
    • Professor Jesse Fried
    • Professor Vikramaditya Khanna
  • Law and Economics
  • Law and Finance of Start-Up Companies
  • Law, Economics, and Organizations Research
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Split-Ups
  • The 2007-2009 Financial Crisis

2012-2013

Spring

  • Corporate Finance
  • Corporations
    • Professor Robert Clark
    • Professor Jon Hanson
  • European Securities Regulation
  • Financial Statement Analysis and Valuation
  • Law, Economics, and Organizations Research
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law
  • Securities Regulation
  • The 2007-2009 Financial Crisis
  • Topics in Mergers and Acquisitions

Fall/Spring

  • Law, Economics, and Organizations Research

Winter

  • Corporate and Capital Markets Law and Policy
  • Mergers and Acquisitions Workshop: Boardroom Strategies and Deal Tactics
  • Securities Litigation

Fall

  • Comparative Corporate Governance
  • Corporations
    • Professor John Coates
    • Professor J. Mark Ramseyer
    • Professor Reinier Kraakman
    • Assistant Professor Holger Spamann
  • Current Issues in Executive Compensation and Corporate Governance
  • Derivatives Regulation
  • Introduction to Accounting and Corporate Financial Reports
  • Law, Economics, and Organizations Research
  • Law and Finance of Start-Up Companies
  • Legal History: History of American Economic Regulation
  • Mergers, Acquisitions, and Split-Ups
  • Readings and Empirical Investigation in Managerial Turnover and Corporate Acquisitions
  • Venture Law and Finance