January Term (J-Term)

Our January Term (J-Term) Program, established in 2005, invites law students to take specialized mini-courses from leading scholars and professors.

Mr. Frank Boas, a generous supporter of the Law School, sponsors one visiting Harvard professor each J-Term.  The Wallace S. Fujiyama Distinguished Visiting Professor Fund supports many of our other J-Term professors.

2010 | SchEDULE  | Course DESCRIPTIONS

• Tayyab Mahmud, Professor of Law; Director, Center for Global Justice, Seattle University School of Law, Seminar in Comparative Constitutional Law: Coup d’Etat & Common Law
• Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jesse Climenko Professor of Law; Director, Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice, Harvard Law School, President Obama’s Impact on America and Beyond: How Will He Help Shape The Legal Landscape?
• Harry N. Scheiber, Stefan A. Riesenfeld Professor of Law and History; Director, Institute for Legal Research; Director, Sho Sato Program in Japanese and U.S. Law; Co-director, Law of the Sea Institute, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Emergency Powers and Civil Liberties in American Constitutional History
• Frank K. Upham, Wilf Family Professor of Property Law, New York University School of Law, Property Rights in Economic and Social Development
• Gordon Walker, Professor; Chair of Commercial Law, School of Law, La Trobe University, Public Listing Down Under – Australia and New Zealand Company and Securities Law

2009 | Brochure

• David Caron, Professor, Boalt Hall, University of California at Berkeley, Challenges & Issues in Private Int’l Dispute Resolution
• Michael Greco, Esq., Partner, K&L Gates LLP, Attorney-Client Privilege: Endangered Species?
• Donald Horowitz, James B. Duke Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke University, Seminar in Comparative Constitutional Design
• Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Frank Michelman, Robert Walmsley, University Professor, Harvard Law School, Bill of Rights & Private Comparative Perspective

2008 | Brochure

• Christine Zuni Cruz, Editor-in-Chief, Tribal Law Journal and Professor of Law, University of New Mexico School of Law, Indigenous Peoples Law
• The Honorable Nancy Gertner, U. S. District Court, Massachusetts, Jury System
• Leonard Kaplan, Mortimer M. Jackson Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin School of Law, Law Culture & Politics
• Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Carol Steiker, Howard J. and Katherine W. Aibel Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Death Penalty
• Gordon Walker, Professor, School of Law, La Trobe University, Comparative Corporate Law

2007 | Press Release

• Jack Balkin, Knight Professor of Constitutional Law and the First Amendment, Yale Law School, The Internet & Info Society
• Margaret Chon, Dean’s Distinguished Scholar, Seattle University School of Law, Globalization & Intellectual Property
• Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Randall Kennedy, Michael R. Klein Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, The Racial Politics of Loyalty & Disloyalty
• The Honorable Jon Newman, Senior Judge, US Ct of Appeals 2nd Circuit, Concept of Reasonableness
• Rebecca Tsosi, Professor, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Arizona State University, Indigenous Rights & Federalism

 2006

• Chongko Choi, Professor, Seoul National University, Comparative Jurisprudence
• Daniel Kanstroom, Professor, Boston College, Social & Legal History of Deportation in the US
• Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Joseph Singer, Harvard Law School, The Ownership Society
• Stephanie Wildman, Professor, Santa Clara University, Law & Social Justice
• Patricia Zell, Esq., Building a Nation: The Exercise of Native Sovereignty

 2005 | In the Media

• William B. Gould, IV, Charles A. Beardsley Emeritus Professor, Stanford Law School, Sports Law and Labor Law
• Kent Greenfield, Professor of Law; Law Fund Research Scholar, Boston College Law School, New Ideas in Corporate Law
• Frank Boas Harvard Visiting Professor Morton Horwitz, Charles Warren Professor of American Legal History, Harvard Law School, The Warren Court