John F. Manning

John Francis Manning (born April 11, 1961) is an American legal scholar who serves as the 13th Dean of Harvard Law School. On March 14, 2024, Manning was appointed as the interim provost of Harvard University, and is on a leave of absence from his deanship. He was previously the Bruce Bromley Professor of Law at Harvard Law School (HLS), where he is a scholar of administrative and constitutional law.

Manning received his undergraduate and legal education at Harvard University. After clerking for Judge Robert Bork and Justice Antonin Scalia, he was named the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia University. Manning moved to Harvard Law in 2002, becoming its deputy-dean, and assumed the deanship on July 1, 2017, succeeding Martha Minow. Provided by Wikipedia