Harvard Law School Wants to Remove Slaveholder’s Crest From Logo . After months of student protests, Harvard Law School could soon stop using its official symbol, a shield based on the crest of ...

Daniel R. Coquillette and Bruce A. Kimball’s history of Harvard Law School, On the Battlefield of Merit (2015), describes the family’s murder of 88 Black individuals — including 77 burned ...

The Harvard Corporation, one of the university’s governing boards, has accepted the law school’s request to change the controversial symbol in time for its bicentennial in 2017.

The once-pervasive Harvard Law School seal, criticized for its ties to slavery, is quickly disappearing. After the Harvard Corporation granted the Law School permission last week to discard its ...

The Royall family's coat of arms was adopted as the seal to honor s lave owner Isaac Royall Jr.'s gift to Harvard upon his death in 1781, which allowed the formation of Harvard Law School.

The Ivy League law school’s seal bears the family crest of Isaac Royall Jr., a plantation owner who bequeathed land to Harvard that funded a professorship and led to the school’s founding in 1817.