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Area of Interest International Law

With military, trade, and other conflicts across the globe, the laws governing interactions among and between nations can determine the fate of individuals, peoples, and nations. From agreements regulating the exchange of goods and services, to treaties governing the conduct of war, to international bodies like the United Nations and World Trade Organization, Harvard Law students delve deeply into the ways cross-border relationships are governed and how they affect the world.

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Hls professors, william p. alford.

Jerome A. and Joan L. Cohen Professor of Law

Gabriella Blum

Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

Christine A. Desan

Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law

Susan H. Farbstein

Clinical Professor of Law

Noah R. Feldman

Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law

Idriss Fofana

Assistant Professor of Law

Jack L. Goldsmith

Learned Hand Professor of Law

David W. Kennedy

Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law

Robert H. Mnookin

Samuel Williston Professor of Law, Emeritus

Naz K. Modirzadeh

Professor of Practice

Ruth L. Okediji

Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law

Henry J. Steiner

Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law, Emeritus

Kristen A. Stilt

Professor of Law

Daniel Tarullo

Nomura Professor of International Financial Regulatory Practice

Roberto Mangabeira Unger

Roscoe Pound Professor of Law

Visiting Professors & Lecturers

Yas banifatemi.

Visiting Professor of Law

Lecturer on Law

Lisa Dicker

Kristen eichensehr.

Samuel Williston Professor of Law

Nancy Gertner

Senior Lecturer on Law

Havva Guney-Ruebenacker

Mary hollingsworth.

Visiting Assistant Clinical Professor of Law

Aleema Jamal

Daniel kahn, ioannis kalpouzos, james kraska.

Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization

Lorinda Laryea

Daniel levine-spound, mary d. lewis.

Harvard University Affiliated Professor

Beatrice Lindstrom

Victor madrigal-borloz, memme onwudiwe, anne orford, mark popofsky, nicole provo, richard salgado, pedro spivakovsky-gonzalez, michael ashley stein, salma waheedi, mengyi wang.

Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law

Steven Wang

Annecoos wiersema, alicia yamin, food law and policy clinic, international human rights clinic, harvard immigration and refugee clinic, research programs and centers, animal law & policy program, center on the legal profession, east asian legal studies program, foundations of private law, institute for global law and policy, human rights program, julis-rabinowitz program on jewish and israeli law, program in islamic law, program on international law and armed conflict, program on law and society in the muslim world, harvard law school project on disability, related courses, international resources.

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International Relations

Student writing in Notebook

The study of International Relations in the Harvard Department of Government examines the sources of conflict and cooperation in world affairs. Through analysis of foreign policy and public opinion, strategic interaction, international law, and the role of transnational actors, scholars of international relations address a wide array of topics including:

  • International finance
  • Human rights
  • Climate change 

Scholars in the field draw on a diverse tool kit that includes formal, quantitative and qualitative methods.

Department Faculty

Alastair iain johnston.

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Christina Davis

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Christoph Mikulaschek

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Dustin Tingley

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Joshua D. Kertzer

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Latanya Sweeney

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Michael J. Hiscox

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Stephen Chaudoin

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Stephen Peter Rosen

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Timothy Colton

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