The former seal featured the crest of the family of Isaac Royall Jr., whose donation to the Law School in the late 18th century eventually funded the first Harvard ... all of our mugs and ...

Harvard Law School will no longer use a seal with the crest of an 18th-century slaveholder who played a key role in the school’s history, following protests from students and professors.

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.

"These symbols set the tone for the rest of the school and the fact that we hold up the Harvard crest as something to be proud of when it represents something so ugly is a profound disappointment ...

Isaac Royall's coat-of-arms, (the three stacked wheat sheaves) which remain Harvard Law School's crest to this day is a badge of shame. #RMF — RoyallMustFall (@RoyallMustFall) October 21, 2015 ...

Yesterday, the dean of Harvard Law School endorsed a recommendation to change the school's official shield because it contains the crest of Isaac Royall, a slave owner whose endowment of land ...

The new design includes Harvard's Latin motto, veritas, over the words lex et iustitia, which mean law and justice. Harvard Law School’s new shield sheds a design that previously attracted ...

when students argued that the seal at the time — which contained the crest of the family of Isaac Royall Jr., a slaveholder who endowed the first law professorship at Harvard — upheld the ...

Harvard Law School is changing its crest because of its use of a brutal slave owner's coat of arms Harvard Law School is to change its official seal, after a protest that it had links to slavery.

"These symbols set the tone for the rest of the school and the fact that we hold up the Harvard crest as something to be proud of when it represents something so ugly is a profound disappointment ...

Harvard Law School is to change its official seal, after a protest that it had links to slavery. The law school, part of the US university, has a seal that includes the crest of a notoriously ...