2021年8月27日 · Harvard Law School Dean John F. Manning ’85 today announced a new law school shield, which was researched and developed over the past year by a working group of faculty, students, alumni, and staff led by Professor Annette Gordon-Reed ’84.

2021年8月25日 · Calls for the Law School to alter its seal began in 2015, when students argued that the seal at the time — which contained the crest of the family of Isaac Royall Jr., a slaveholder who...

“An important theme is the aspiration of the law. That this is an unending process of pursing justice and the notion that the law itself is aspirational, imperfect, and always in a process of evolution. It’s why students come to the law school, and why people look to the law school.” HLS Faculty Member The HLS Shield Working Group

Each school within the university (Harvard College, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Law School, Harvard Extension School, Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, etc.) has its own distinctive shield as well, as do many other internal administrative units such as the Harvard College residential "Houses" and the Harvard Library. Many ...

2016年3月4日 · A committee of Harvard Law School faculty, students, alumni, and staff established in November by Dean Martha Minow has recommended to the Harvard Corporation that the HLS shield — which is modeled on the family crest of an 18 th century slaveholder — no longer be the official symbol of Harvard Law School. In transmitting the report to the ...

2021年8月23日 · More than five years after the Harvard Corporation acceded to Harvard Law School’s decision to abandon its shield, associated with slavery, it has approved the school’s replacement. The new shield was developed by the HLS Shield Working Group, first convened in 2020, and design firms PopKitchen and Studio Rainwater.

2016年3月15日 · Harvard University will replace the official shield of its prestigious law school which features the family crest of an 18th century slaveholder, after students objected to its racist...

2021年8月27日 · Harvard University has replaced the official shield of its law school after long-voiced objections from students and staff about the previous version, which featured the family crest of an 18th-century slaveholder who donated money to help establish the school.

2016年3月14日 · The Harvard Corporation on Monday approved a recommendation to retire the Harvard Law School shield, which came under fire amid student protests last fall because of its ties to the family of Isaac Royall Jr., a Massachusetts slaveholder who helped to establish the School through a bequest from his estate.

The seal created for Harvard Law School was based on the family crest of Isaac Royall, Jr. whose 1779 bequest to Harvard College would eventually endow the first professorship of law at Harvard. In 2016, historical research revealed that Isaac Royall, Jr. had earned his wealth through the labor of enslaved people.