Harvard University selects new law school dean
New England Council member, Harvard University, has named Professor John C.P. Goldberg as Harvard Law School’s new dean. Goldberg has served as interim dean since March of 2024 and was recently appointed as the law school’s official dean at the end of June 2025.
Goldberg’s move to permanently hold this position follows shuffles in the university’s leadership following President Claudine Gay’s resignation in January of 2024. The previous Law School Dean, John F. Manning, succeeded Alan Garber as Harvard’s provost when Garber became the university’s president. Goldberg has been a Harvard faculty member since 2008 and served as the law school’s deputy dean from 2017 to 2022.
“I am deeply grateful for this opportunity to serve the students, faculty, staff, and graduates of Harvard Law School, particularly at a moment in which law and legal education are so salient,” Goldberg said. “Working together, we will continue to advance our understanding of the law, and to explore how it can best serve constitutional democracy, the rule of law, and the bedrock American principle of liberty and equal justice for all. In doing so, we will build on the best traditions of this great institution and our profession: rigorous inquiry and instruction, open and reasoned discourse, and conscientious and vigorous advocacy.”
The New England Council congratulates Harvard University and Dean Goldberg on this exciting news.
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