Honorary Degree Citation

Doctor of Law

Bruce H. Mann, MPhil, JD, PhD

Professor Bruce H. Mann is an American legal scholar and legal historian who has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 2006, where he is the Carl F. Schipper Jr. Professor of Law. He teaches courses in American legal history and property. His research focuses on the relationship among legal, social, and economic change in the American Revolutionary era.

Professor Mann’s academic career includes visiting or permanent professor positions at Washington University in St. Louis, University of Connecticut School of Law, University of Houston Law Center, University of Texas School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Princeton University. He has received five teaching awards— one at Washington University and four at the University of Pennsylvania, including the university-wide Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching.

Professor Mann is the author of Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (2002), which received the SHEAR Book Prize from the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, the Littleton-Griswold Prize from the American Historical Association, and the J. Willard Hurst Prize from the Law and Society Association. He is also the author of Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut (1987) and multiple articles published in law reviews and history journals. He is the co-editor of the book The Many Legalities of Early America (2001). He is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Historical Society, an elected Member of the American Antiquarian Society, and a past president of the American Society for Legal History.

Professor Mann is a graduate of Brown University. He received his JD, MPhil, and PhD from Yale University.

For his distinguished contributions to the legal profession, for his ongoing dedication to academic excellence, and for his unwavering commitment to legal education, Pace University is honored to confer upon Professor Bruce H. Mann the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa, with all the rights and privileges pertaining thereunto.