Practice Management

It is probably does not reflect what the law school means today to us in this country, and it is probably not the only law school to have such a distinction.  But, as reported by PrawfsBlawg.Com, you have got to acknowledge that Harvard Law owes its existence in good part to slavery.  This is because Harvard Law School was founded with money amassed through slavery.

If you visit the ?Our History? page of the law school?s website, you get a somewhat-whitewashed version of the school?s heritage, but what the website omits is that Isaac Royall was a slaveholder ? his donated estate was built from slave labor and the slave trade.  It was the slaves that were the benefactors of the law school.

PrawfsBlawg.Com suggests that "Royall?s slaves should, in retrospect, be awarded something like a constructive trust on their unremitted earnings. That trust property, having been converted to charitable contribution, leaves a residue of acknowledgement of giving. That acknowledgement is currently possessed, posthumously, by Royall. It seems only equitable to shift that res to the account of the slaves, or at least allow them to share as co-tenants".