Stanford Law and History Courses

2025-2026 Courses

SLS Courses

Comparative Law, Prof. Amalia D. Kessler (Winter)

Constitutional Law, Prof. Michael W. McConnell (Winter)

Constitutional Law, Prof. Fred Smith (Winter)

Constitutional Law, Prof. Evelyn Douek (Winter)

Constitutional Law: Free Speech, Prof. Evelyn Douek (Spring)

Constitutional Law: The Fourteenth Amendment, Prof. Ralph Richard Banks (Spring)

Creation of the Constitution, Prof. Michael W. McConnell (Spring)

Direct Democracy, Prof. Jane S. Schacter (Autumn)

Disability Law, Prof. Rabia Belt (Spring)

Discussion (1L): Criminal Legal Histories, Prof. George Fisher (Autumn)

Federal Indian Law, Prof. Greg Ablavsky (Winter)

International Human Rights, Prof. E. Tendayi Achiume (Winter)

Law and Culture in American Fiction, Prof. Ticien Sassoubre (Autumn)

Law and the Image, Prof. Ticien Sassoubre (Winter)

Legal Ethics, Prof. Norman W. Spaulding (Autumn)

On the Basis of Sex: Gender & the Constitution in U.S. History, Prof. Magdalene Zier (Autumn)

Reconstruction: Adding the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, Prof. Michael W. McConnell (Winter)

The Law of American Slavery, Prof. Anne Twitty (Autumn)

The Practice of Persuasion, Prof. Ticien Sassoubre (Winter)

Unreasonable People, Prof. Rabia Belt (Spring)

U.S. Legal History, Gregory Ablavsky (Autumn)

SLS Approved Courses

Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law, Profs. Didi Kuo and Hesham Sallam (Autumn)

The Dialogue of Democracy, Prof. James Fishkin (Autumn)

Other Stanford Courses

Doing Legal History, Prof. Jonathan Gienapp (Autumn)

Law and Society in Late Imperial China, Prof. Matthew Sommer (Autumn)

Originalism and the American Constitution: History and Interpretation, Prof. Jonathan Gienapp (Winter)

Reparations in Law and History, Prof. Gili Kliger (Autumn)