John Manning

John Manning, Vice President

John F. Manning is Harvard University’s Provost and the Dane Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He joined the HLS faculty in 2004 and was Bruce Bromley Professor of Law from 2007 to 2017 and deputy dean from 2013 to 2017. He was the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard Law School from 2017 to 2024. He serves on the Harvard University Task Force on Inclusion and Belonging and on the HarvardX faculty committee. Dean Manning is a prolific scholar of public law, focusing on statutory interpretation and structural constitutional law. Most recently, he co-edited Hart & Wechsler’s Federal Courts and the Federal System (7th ed., 2021) and co-authored Criminal Law, a Critical Approach Book (2022). Prior to joining the Harvard faculty, he was the Michael I. Sovern Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Dean Manning was a law clerk to the Honorable Robert Bork on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and to Associate Justice Antonin Scalia of the United States Supreme Court. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dean Manning is a summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard College and a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.