Andrew Manns

Andrew Manns is a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. He studies policing, remedies, and civil rights. His work considers alternatives to traditional remedies for law enforcement misconduct such as state torts or the Justice Department’s civil rights suits, and explores how litigation prompts legal, social, and political change. His current project examines the use of traditional state tort remedies, such as trespass and battery actions, to regulate law enforcement misconduct.

Prior to the fellowship, Andrew was a trial attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, where he prosecuted law enforcement misconduct and hate crime cases, including United States v. Ritter, the first federal hate crime trial for the murder of a transgender person. He clerked for Judge William A. Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and Judge T.S. Ellis III in the Eastern District of Virginia. Andrew earned his J.D. from the University of Virginia, his M.S.T. from Fordham University, and his B.A. from Dartmouth College..