Harvard Selects Conservative Lawyer for Powerful Leadership Role

Harvard University named John Manning, a scholar of federal courts and administrative law, as its permanent provost, the second-most powerful leadership role at the university where he will oversee academic policies.

Manning, who graduated from Harvard College and its law school, worked in the Justice Department and served clerkships with US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia and Judge Robert Bork on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.

A longtime faculty member at Harvard and Columbia law schools, Manning was described as the “real deal” by the right-leaning Federalist Society when appointed as dean of Harvard ...