Free Law Courses

Justice is one of the most popular courses in Harvard’s history. Nearly one thousand students pack Harvard’s historic Sanders Theatre to hear Professor Sandel talk about justice, equality, democracy, and citizenship.

American Contract Law I (along with its sister course Contracts II) provides a comprehensive overview of contract law in the United States.

Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging?

Sources, Implementation and the Politics of International Law with contemporary examples like Iraq and Afghanistan, climate change, torture reform, and criminal tribunals.

Inventors and entrepreneurs have four concerns related to patent law: protecting inventions during product development, determining invention patentability, avoiding infringement, and leveraging a patent as a business asset.

This quarter focuses on crime and punishment in the colonial era, the emergence of theories of popular sovereignty, the forging of the Constitution and American federalism...

Can you trademark red shoe soles? Can you really get a patent on a rectangular cell phone shape? Do artists and musicians need over a century of copyright protection for their works?

Thomas D. Lyon’s research interests include child witnesses, child maltreatment and domestic violence. He teaches courses in Evidence, Law and Psychology, and Child Interviewing.

Selected problems in the history of the relationship between religious beliefs and practice and legal institutions in America from the Civil War to the present.

In this introductory subject, students examine legal institutions and practices such as law making and interpretation of laws. The law of contract and its place in commercial law, notably the law of the sale of goods, comprise the body of the unit.