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Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United States.
John Chipman Gray (LL.B. 1861), property law professor and founder of the law firm Ropes & Gray. Livingston Hall, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law at Harvard Law School until his 1971 retirement. George Haskins (1942), Algernon Sydney Biddle Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
In 1992, Lewis donated $3 million to Harvard Law School, the largest grant at the time in the school's history. [8] The school renamed its International Law Center the Reginald F. Lewis International Law Center, the first major facility at Harvard named in honor of an African American. [9]
Frank Chuman (b. 1917), JD 1945, first Asian American law student at the University of Maryland; Elaine J. Coates (b. 1937), BA 1959, first African American to graduate from University of Maryland, College Park; H. David Kotz (b. 1966), attorney; Ronni Karpen Moffitt, political activist murdered along with Orlando Letelier by Chilean agents
In both 1919 and 1920, headed by All-American brothers Arnold Horween and Ralph Horween (who also attended Harvard Law School), Harvard was undefeated (9–0–1, as they outscored their competition 229–19, and 8–0–1, respectively). [26] [27] [28] The team won the 1920 Rose Bowl against the University of Oregon, 7–6.
At Harvard University, the title of University Professor is the institution's most distinguished professorial post, [1] and is conferred upon a select group of 25 tenured faculty members whose scholarship and other professional work have achieved exceptional distinction and influence. [2]
The dean of Harvard Law School is the head of Harvard Law School. The current dean is John F. Manning —the 13th person to hold the post—who succeeded Martha Minow in 2017. [ 1 ]
This list of Ivy League law schools outlines the five universities of the Ivy League that host a law school. The three Ivy League universities that do not offer law degrees are Brown, Dartmouth and Princeton; they are the smallest universities in the Ivy League by enrollment. All five Ivy League law schools are consistently ranked among the top ...