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. Each class ...

. The current dean is

John F. Manning John F. Manning (born April 11, 1961) is an American educator and lawyer. Manning is currently the Morgan and Helen Chu dean and professor of Harvard Law School. Career Manning graduated from Harvard College in 1982 and lived in Thayer Hall durin ...

, the 13th person to hold the post, who succeeded

Martha Minow Martha Louise Minow (born December 6, 1954) is an American legal scholar and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. She served as the Dean of Harvard Law School between 2009 and 2017 and has taught at the Law School sin ...

in 2017.

List of deans of Harvard Law School

Founded in 1817,

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 Austin Wakeman Scott (August 31, 1884 – April 10, 1981) was a professor of law at Harvard University who wrote a ten-volume treatise covering many topics of personal trusts such as the formation and termination of express trusts, resulting and c ...

(1915–16), Edward Henry Warren (1921–22), Joseph Warren (1925–26 and 1929),

Joseph Henry Beale Joseph Henry Beale (October 12, 1861 – January 20, 1943) was an American law professor at Harvard Law School and served as the first dean of University of Chicago Law School. He was notable for his advancement of legal formalism, as well a ...

(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/ {{DEFAULTSORT:Dean Of Harvard Law School *