Bruce Mann (legal historian)

Bruce Hartling Mann (born 1950) is the Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a legal historian whose research focuses on the relationship among legal, social, and economic change in early America. He began at Harvard Law School in Fall 2006, after being the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mann graduated from Hingham High School in 1968.
Mann holds A.B. and A.M. degrees from Brown University (1972) and M.Phil., J.D., and Ph.D. degrees from Yale University (1975, 1975, and 1977, respectively). His dissertation is titled "Rationality, Legal Change, and Community in Connecticut, 1690–1760." Mann has been licensed to practice law in Connecticut since 1975.
After graduation, Mann taught at the University of Connecticut School of Law, Washington University in St. Louis, University of Houston, University of Texas, University of Michigan, and the history department at Princeton University. In 1987, Mann started to teach at the University of Pennsylvania.
Mann is married to Elizabeth Warren, who is the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts.

• SHEAR Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic.
• Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association.
• J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association.

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