Harvard enrolls three times as many law students as Yale or Stanford, allowing the school to create a much larger network of conservative student groups and flagship publications. It also employs four conservative law professors—Jack Goldsmith, Adrian Vermeule, Charles Fried, and Stephen Sachs—and even some conservative administrators: John Manning, the dean of the law school, clerked for Antonin Scalia.
The result is an institutionalized check on activist students that has few counterparts in legal academia. Those activists are not necessarily more tolerant than the ones at other schools: In 2021, several Harvard Law student groups demanded that the dean denounce Vermeule, an outspoken social conservative, over his "harmful" tweets.