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The school was established in 1817 and has operated continuously since then. This makes Harvard the oldest law school in the United States, although it was predated by the law faculty at the College of William and Mary.

1 Berkman Center for Internet and Society

The Harvard Law School includes the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, which focuses on the legal study of cyberspace. The Center sponsors conferences, visiting lecturers, and residential fellows. Members of the Center do research and write books, articles, and weblogs with RSS 2.0 feeds, for which the Center holds the specification. The Center's headquarters is a small Victorian wood-frame building next to the bigger brick-and-stone Harvard Law School buildings. Its newsletter, "The Filter", is on the Web and available by e-mail, and it hosts a blog community of Harvard faculty, students and Berkman Center affiliates.

2 Famous alumni

See also: Harvard University people

2.1 U.S. presidents

• Rutherford B. Hayes

2.2 Supreme Court justices

• Harry Blackmun
• Stephen Breyer
• Felix Frankfurter
• Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Oliver Wendell Holmes the younger, ( March 8, 1841 March 6, 1935) was an American jurist noted for his progressive decisions, often contrary to that of other judges of his time. He was called The Great Dissenter''. Holmes was born in Boston, the son of th
• Anthony KennedyAnthony McLeod Kennedy (born July 23, 1936) has been a US Supreme Court Associate Justice since 1988. Kennedy was born in Sacramento, California. He has no relation to the famous Kennedy family dynasty of American politics. He married Mary Davis and has t
• Antonin ScaliaAntonin Scalia (born March 11, 1936) has been a US Supreme Court Associate Justice since 1986. He is widely considered the leading conservative voice on the Court. Antonin Scalia was born in Trenton, New Jersey. His mother, Catherine, was born in the Unit
• David SouterDavid Hackett Souter (born September 17, 1939) has been a US Supreme Court Associate Justice since 1990. He filled the seat vacated by William J. Souter was born in Melrose, Massachusetts. He was the only child of Joseph A. Souter and Helen Hackett Souter

2.3 U.S. attorneys general

• Charles Joseph BonaparteCharles Joseph Bonaparte ( June 9, 1851 June 28, 1921) was a grandson of Jerome Bonaparte (the youngest brother of the French emperor Napoleon I), and a member of the United States Cabinet. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of Jerome Napoleon Bo
• Janet RenoJanet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the 78th Attorney General of the United States ( 1993- 2001), the first woman to hold that post. She was nominated by President Bill Clinton on February 11, 1993 and confirmed on March 11. Biography Reno's father, Henry