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Learning how courts interpret policy has become an important component of the policymaker's toolkit. This course aims to introduce policy-oriented students to how Constitutional interpretation touches upon pressing policy questions. Students will engage with what courts...

Introduces students to concepts and techniques essential to the analysis of public policy issues. Provides an introduction to probability, statistics, and decision analysis emphasizing the ways in which these tools are applied to practical policy questions. Topics include...

In this course, we will examine the key role played by race and ethnicity across various facets of American political life. We will explore the distinct political and social identities of African Americans, Latinos, Asian Americans, and others, and how these identities...

How does the Supreme Court really decide cases? Are judges as activist as politicians claim? In this course, we will explore these questions by addressing how political and social forces influence American law and legal institutions, and vice versa. We will explore in depth...

Teaching Fellow. The second half of the quantitative methods sequence for graduate students in the Harvard Department of Government, the course introduces advanced topics in political methodology. Topics covered included maximum likelihood estimation, Monte Carlo simulation...

Teaching Fellow. The required first half of the quantitative methods sequence for incoming graduate students in the Harvard Department of Government. A general introduction to the use of statistics in political science research, the course covered basic data analysis...

Head Teaching Fellow. An introduction to American constitutional law for undergraduates, with a principal focus on decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court. Topics covered included freedom of speech and religion, guarantees of due process and equal protection, and the powers of...

Teaching Fellow (Unevaluated). Cross-registered with the Harvard Law School. This class was an interdisciplinary look at voting, specifically focusing on points of contact between the legal scholarship on voting rights and election law and the political science literature on...

Teaching Fellow (Unevaluated). Cross registered with the Harvard Law School, this course covered the major Constitutional issues involving freedom of religion. Topics covered included the relationship between the Establishment clause and the Free Exercise clause as well as...