The dean of Harvard Law School is the head of
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
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. The current dean is
John F. Manning, the 13th person to hold the post, who succeeded
Martha Minow in 2017.
List of deans of Harvard Law School
Founded in 1817,
Harvard Law School
Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.
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is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Since its founding, 13 people have officially served as dean.
Acting deans
Several individuals have also served as acting dean at one time or another. They are:
Samuel Williston
Samuel Williston (September 24, 1861 – February 18, 1963) was an American lawyer and law professor who authored an influential treatise on contracts.
Early life, education and family
Williston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts to a ...
(1909–10),
Austin Wakeman Scott (1915–16), Edward Henry Warren (1921–22), Joseph Warren (1925–26 and 1929),
Joseph Henry Beale (1929–30), Edmund Morris Morgan (1936–37, 1942–45), Robert Amory, Jr. (1948),
Livingston Hall (1959), Andrew James Casner (1967–68), and Patricia Ann Lovett (2009).
References
External links
*https://web.archive.org/web/20150906053618/http://hls.harvard.edu/library/historical-special-collections/research-assistance/deans-of-harvard-law-school/
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