Commentary Harvard Law School (HLS) has changed its law school heraldry. Members of the HLS Community were recently informed of the adoption of a new shield by John Manning, who is the Morgan and Helen Chu Dean and Professor of Law at Harvard. He stated that, “the simple, elegant, and beautiful design of the new shield captures the complexity, the diversity, the limitlessness, the transformative power, the strength, and the energy that the HLS community … sees in Harvard Law School.” The school had appointed a working group, the members of which were tasked to determine the suitability of its shield, and possibly to recommend a new design to the Harvard authorities. In their report, the working group indicated that the shield originally created for HLS was “based on the family crest of Isaac Royall, Jr., whose 1779 bequest to Harvard College would eventually endow the first professorship of law …