13 Facts About Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Harvard Law School's founding is traditionally linked to the funding of Harvard's first professorship in law, paid for from a bequest from the estate of Isaac Royall Jr.

Harvard Law School's founding is traced to the establishment of a 'law department' at Harvard in 1817.

The University of Maryland School of Law was chartered in 1816 but did not begin classes until 1824, and it closed during the Civil War.

In November 2019, Harvard Law School announced that a working group had been tasked to develop a new emblem.

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Nathan Dane, a prominent alumnus of the college, then endowed the Dane Professorship of Harvard Law School, insisting that it be given to then Supreme Court Justice Joseph Story.

From its founding in 1900, the Association of American Law Schools promoted the case method in law schools that sought accreditation.

In 2016, the governing body of the university, the Harvard Corporation, voted to retire the law school's 80-year-old heraldic shield.

Harvard Law School has more than 90 student organizations that are active on campus.

Harvard Law School's wife, Michelle Obama, is a graduate of Harvard Law School.

Past Supreme Court justices from Harvard Law School include Antonin Scalia, David Souter, Harry Blackmun, William J Brennan, Louis Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, Lewis Powell, and Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

Legal scholars who graduated from Harvard Law include Payam Akhavan, William P Alford, Rachel Barkow, Yochai Benkler, Alexander Bickel, Andrew Burrows, Erwin Chemerinsky, Amy Chua, Sujit Choudhry, Robert C Clark, Hugh Collins, James Duane, I Glenn Cohen, Ronald Dworkin, Christopher Edley Jr.

Harvard Law School is a two-time WWE Tag Team Champion.