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HLS has also continued to award the Royall chair to its professors.
The school was formed in 1817 “with the money left to Harvard by an Antiguan slave owner and planter, Isaac Royall,” Boston College law professor Daniel R. Coquillette said in a 2001 speech at HLS.
Royall had sold his slaves and plantations in the Caribbean in order to move to Medford, Mass., according to Coquillette, now a visiting professor at HLS.
Robert C. Clark held the Royall professorship during his tenure as HLS dean from 1989 to 2003, and David R. Herwitz, who retired this year, held the chair from 2003 to 2006. The title currently belongs to law professor Janet Halley.
Despite the fact that he was “a very much appreciated and highly-regarded colleague,” said his friend, Royall Professor of Law David R. Herwitz, “he never took himself too seriously.”