Royall Professorship of Law at Harvard University

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The Royall Professorship of Law at Harvard University is a historic endowed chair in the law school whose origins are tied to the wealth and slaveholding legacy of the Royall family.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf academic position
endowed chair
law professorship
academicDiscipline law
affiliation Harvard Law School NERFINISHED
Harvard University
associatedWithTopic institutional legacy of slavery at Harvard
university reckoning with slavery
chairType historic chair
named professorship
country United States of America
surface form: United States
endowmentSource Royall family wealth
field law
hasHistoricalConnectionTo slaveholding legacy of the Royall family
slavery
hasNotableHolder Charles Fried NERFINISHED
Janet Halley NERFINISHED
John Chipman Gray NERFINISHED
Joseph Story NERFINISHED
Laurence H. Tribe NERFINISHED
hasSubjectArea jurisprudence
legal scholarship
public law
hasTitleHolderRole professor of law at Harvard Law School
inception 19th century
isPartOf faculty positions at Harvard Law School
languageOfWorkOrName English
locatedIn Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard Law School NERFINISHED
locatedInOrganization Harvard University NERFINISHED
namedAfter Royall family NERFINISHED
notableFor being one of the oldest professorships at Harvard Law School
its association with the Royall family slaveholding fortune

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Royall family legacy Royall Professorship of Law at Harvard University
Isaac Royall Jr. notableFor Royall Professorship of Law at Harvard University
this entity surface form: Royall Professorship of Law at Harvard