Bruce Hartling Mann (born April 28, 1950) is an American legal scholar who is the Carl F. Schipper Jr. Professor of Law at

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, and husband of U.S. Senator

Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Ann Warren (née Herring; born June 22, 1949) is an American politician and former law professor who is the Seniority in the United States Senate, senior United States senator from the state of Massachusetts, serving since 2013. A mem ...

. A legal historian, his research focuses on the relationship among legal, social, and economic change in early United States. He began teaching at Harvard Law School in 2006, after being the Leon Meltzer Professor of Law and Professor of History at the

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Early life and education

Bruce Hartling Mann was born on April 28, 1950, in Massachusetts. He graduated in 1968 from

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. He received

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and

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degrees from

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(1972) and M.Phil., J.D., and

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degrees from

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(1975, 1975, and 1977, respectively). His dissertation was 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

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, and the history department at

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. In 1987, Mann started to teach at the

. 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). From 2011 to 2013, Mann served as president of the

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Personal life

Mann is married to

, the senior

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from

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and a former law professor. Warren proposed to Mann after she observed him teach a property class, having previously met at a law conference. Warren was a Democratic candidate for president of the United States in the 2020 election. Mann was involved in the Elizabeth Warren Native American ancestry scandal in that he also erroneously claimed

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ancestry in the same 1984 cookbook that Warren did.

Awards

* SHEAR Book Prize from the

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. * Littleton-Griswold Prize from the

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. * J. Willard Hurst Prize from the

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References

External links

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