Academic background / Education

Brown University (BA, MA)

Yale University (MPhil, JD, PhD)

Thesis

"Rationality, Legal Change, and Community in Connecticut, 1690–1760."

Academic workInstitutions

Harvard Law School

Washington University in St. Louis

Bruce Hartling Mann (born April 27, 1950)^[1] is the Carl F. Schipper, Jr. Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, and the husband of U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. He is a legal historian whose research focuses on the relationship among legal, social, and economic change in early America.^[2] He began teaching at Harvard Law School in 2006, after being the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Education

Mann graduated in 1968 from Hingham High School in Hingham, Massachusetts.

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.

Career

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 Law School.

He is the author of Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut (2001) and Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (2009).

Personal life

Mann is married to Elizabeth Warren (née Herring), the senior United States Senator from Massachusetts and a former law professor. Warren proposed to Mann after he had finished teaching a property class that she had sat in on. Warren officially announced her candidacy for president of the United States on February 8, 2019.

Awards

• 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