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 ...

Harvard Law School unveiled a new seal Monday, more than five years after the school retired its former one due to its ties to slavery. The new seal consists of the University’s motto ...

Two years after the Corporation accepted a proposal to remove the controversial crest of a slave-owning family from the Law School’s official seal, the school has yet to decide on a replacement.

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.

The dean also made public a report by a committee of Harvard Law School faculty, students, alumni and staff which recommended, by a vote of 10-2, that the shield based on the Royall family crest ...

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.

"We demand the removal of the Harvard family crest as the crest of the law school and we demand that the Royall Chair of Law be renamed as well," Students for Inclusion, a student group on campus ...

Harvard Law School’s new shield sheds a design that previously attracted controversy. Back in 2016, the Harvard student group Royall Must Fall drew explicit attention to the previous shield ...

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.

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 law school, part of the US university, has a seal that includes the crest of a notoriously brutal 18th Century slave owner. Students have been holding protests and sit-ins calling for a change ...