At Harvard Law School, Battle for Inclusion Continues

The successful fight to retire Harvard Law School’s controversial shield emblem, which has ties to a slaveholding benefactor, has ignited a new battle over equality and racism on the Cambridge campus.

Earlier this week, the Harvard Corporation voted unanimously to retire the image and trademark of the 80-year-old shield, which displays the coat of arms from the family of Isaac Royall, Jr., at one time the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts.

Now, the school has several more changes on the way, including bringing a visiting critical race theory professor to the school, hiring more faculty of color, revamping school orientations to make them more ...