Dr. Bruce Mann

Biography

Bruce H. Mann is the Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches American Legal History and Property. He has held visiting faculty positions at various prestigious law schools including Washington University in St. Louis and universities in Connecticut, Houston, Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania, as well as the history department at Princeton. Mann has received five teaching awards, including four from Washington University and the university-wide Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching. He completed his undergraduate studies at Brown University and earned his law degree and Ph.D. in History from Yale University. His notable publications include 'Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut' (University of North Carolina Press, 1987) and the co-edited volume 'Legalities in Early America' (University of North Carolina Press, 2001). His recent book, 'Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence' (Harvard University Press, 2002), received several prestigious awards including the SHEAR Book Prize. Mann has served as editor for the Law and History Review and is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society. He is also an elected member and former President of the American Society for Legal History.

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