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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.
Christopher Columbus Langdell, an influential dean of Harvard Law School from 1875 to 1890. 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. [66] It was a small operation and grew slowly. By 1827, it was down to one ...
History of the Harvard Law School and of Early Legal Conditions in America (1908) [19] A History of the American Bar. 1911. The Supreme Court in United States History (3 volumes, 1922) [20] (2 vol. revised edition 1928) The Supreme Court and Sovereign States (1924) [21] The Making of the Constitution (1928; rev. ed 1937) [22]
Michelle Obama is also a Harvard Law School graduate, from the class of 1988. As the first-ever African-American First Lady, Obama has championed health, higher education, and support for service ...
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.
Edward Henry Warren (January 11, 1873 – July 24, 1945), nicknamed "Bull", was an American lawyer, the Weld Professor of Law and the Story Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. There he briefly taught second–year equity law and property law until 1908, and then first–year property law for the rest of his academic career and third–year ...
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 ]
William W. Fisher, intellectual property law professor at Harvard Law School and director of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society; Peter Junger (LL.B. 1958), Internet law activist and professor at Case Western Reserve University; Charles Nesson, professor at Harvard Law School and founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society