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From Harvard Law Today
Faculty
HLS Professors
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Yochai Benkler
Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies
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Christine A. Desan
Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law
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Ryan D. Doerfler
Professor of Law
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Noah R. Feldman
Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law
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Janet E. Halley
Eli Goldston Professor of Law
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Jon D. Hanson
Alan A. Stone Professor of Law
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Kenneth W. Mack
Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law
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Ruth L. Okediji
Jeremiah Smith, Jr. Professor of Law
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Benjamin I. Sachs
Kestnbaum Professor of Labor and Industry
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Nicholas Stephanopoulos
Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law
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Laura Weinrib
Fred N. Fishman Professor of Constitutional Law
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Lucie E. White
Louis A. Horvitz Professor of Law
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Mark Wu
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
Visiting Professors & Lecturers
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Amna Akbar
Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law
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Brian Highsmith
Lecturer on Law
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Martti Koskenniemi
William D. Zabel ‘61 Visiting Professor in Human Rights
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Anne Orford
Visiting Professor of Law and John Harvey Gregory Lecturer on World Organization
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Michael J. Sandel
Harvard University Affiliated Professor
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Hila Shamir
Visiting Professor of Law
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Alicia Yamin
Lecturer on Law
Research Programs and Centers
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