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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. Each class in the three-year JD program has approximately 560 students, which is among the largest of the top 150 ...
The establishment of Harvard Law School in 1817 was made possible by a 1779 bequest from Isaac Royall Jr.; it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the nation. [56] It was a small operation and grew slowly. By 1827, it was down to one faculty member.
Christopher Columbus Langdell (May 22, 1826 – July 6, 1906) was an American jurist and legal academic who was Dean of Harvard Law School from 1870 to 1895. As a professor and administrator, he pioneered the casebook method of instruction, which has since been widely adopted in American law schools and adapted for other professional disciplines, such as business, public policy, and education.
Sources: The Washington Post, Harvard Law Today. Elected in 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes was the first Harvard Law School alumnus to become president of the United States. Hayes graduated from HLS in ...
Annette Gordon-Reed (J.D. 1984), professor at Harvard Law School and Pulitzer Prize for History winner; Robert A. Gorman (LL.B. 1962), law professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School; John Chipman Gray (LL.B. 1861), property law professor and founder of the law firm Ropes & Gray
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]
Ruth Bader Ginsburg – also attended Harvard Law School. Charles Evans Hughes – Chief Justice. Joseph McKenna – studied at the law school, did not graduate. Stanley Forman Reed – also attended University of Virginia School of Law, did not graduate from either. Harlan F. Stone – Chief Justice.
History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America (1908) A History of the American Bar. 1911. The Supreme Court in United States History (3 volumes, 1922) (2 vol. revised edition 1928) The Supreme Court and Sovereign States (1924) The Making of the Constitution (1928; rev. ed 1937)