History of the Harvard Law School Library
The Deans of Harvard Law School
| 1870-1895 | Christopher Columbus Langdell |
| 1895-1910 | James Barr Ames |
| 1910-1915 | Ezra Ripley Thayer (died September 14, 1915) |
| 1915-1916 | Austin Wakeman Scott, Acting Dean |
| 1916-1936 | Roscoe Pound |
| 1937-1946* | James McCauley Landis |
| 1946-1967 | Erwin Nathaniel Griswold (left to become U.S. Solicitor General) |
| 1967-1968 | Andrew James Casner, Acting Dean |
| 1968-1971 | Derek Curtis Bok (left to become president of Harvard University) |
| 1971 | Albert Martin Sacks, Acting Dean |
| 1971-1981 | Albert Martin Sacks |
| 1981-1989 | James Vorenberg |
| 1989-2003 | Robert C. Clark |
| 2003- | Elena Kagan |
*Edmund Morris Morgan, Acting Dean from January, 1942 to December, 1944 during which time James McCauley Landis was the national director of the United States Office of Civilian Defense.