Harvard Gazette, Harvard Law School Dean John Manning Named Interim Provost:

Interim President Alan M. Garber ’76 announced today that John F. Manning ’82, J.D. ’85, Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), will serve as interim provost beginning March 14. John C.P. Goldberg, Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence, will serve as interim dean of HLS.

As Harvard’s chief academic officer, Manning, who is taking a leave from his role as dean, will have oversight of University-wide academic priorities and activities, and will also lead several key initiatives, including exploring the considerations around institutional neutrality and continuing the University’s focus on fostering academic freedom and civil discourse. Garber, who served as provost since September 2011, was appointed interim president on Jan. 2 after Claudine Gay, 30th president of Harvard University, stepped down. …

Manning has been a member of the HLS faculty since 2004. He was appointed deputy dean of HLS in 2013 and was named dean in 2017. Prior to joining Harvard, he was the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. …

Goldberg, a leading scholar in tort law, private law, and legal theory, will begin his service as interim dean on March 14. A member of the faculty since 2008, Goldberg previously served as deputy dean from 2017 to 2022. In that time, he worked closely with Manning on overseeing curricular reform, developing the School’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and other initiatives. …

Recognized for his dedication to teaching and mentoring, Goldberg has taught numerous first-year and upper-level courses including “Civil Procedure,” “Constitutional Law,” “Contracts,” “Criminal Law,” and “Torts.” The recipient of multiple teaching awards, he taught and served as associate dean for research at Vanderbilt Law School before joining Harvard’s faculty.

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