Bruce Mann

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The seminar will examine the legal and constitutional history of late-colonial America and the early republic, an era that…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The seminar will examine the legal and constitutional history of late-colonial America and the early republic, an era that…

Exam Type: One Day Take-Home This course deals with characteristic arrangements under American law for the creation and transfer of rights to control and exploit…

Prerequisites: None Exam Type: No Exam The seminar will examine the legal and constitutional history of late-colonial America and the early republic, an era that…

Bruce H. Mann, Majoritarianism, Pluralism, and Bureaucracy in the Nineteenth Century, 11 Rev. Am. Hist. 490 (1983) (reviewing William E. Nelson, The Roots of American…

Bruce H. Mann, Book Review: Marylynn Salmon, Women and the Law of Property in Early America (1986), 5 Law & Hist. Rev. 297 (1987).

Bruce H. Mann, Law, Economy, and Society in Early New England, 111 Yale L.J. 1869 (2002)(reviewing Claire Priest, Currency Policies and Legal Development in Colonial…

Bruce H. Mann, Formalities and Formalism in the Uniform Probate Code, 142 U. Pa. L. Rev. 1033 (1994).

Bruce H. Mann, Tales from the Crypt: Prison, Legal Authority, and the Debtors’ Constitution in the Early Republic, 51 Wm. & Mary Q. 183 (1994).

Bruce H. Mann, The Evolutionary Revolution in American Law: A Comment on J.R. Pole’s “Reflections”, 50 Wm. & Mary Q. 168 (1993).

Bruce H. Mann, Law, Legalism, and Community before the American Revolution, 84 Mich. L. Rev. 1415 (1986).

Bruce H. Mann, The Formalization of Informal Law: Arbitration before the American Revolution, 59 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 443 (1984).

Bruce H. Mann, Failure in the Land of the Free, 77 Am. Bankr. L.J. no. 1, Winter 2003, at 1.

Bruce H. Mann, Rationality, Legal Change, and Community in Connecticut, 1690-1760, 14 Law & Soc’y Rev. 187 (1980).

Bruce H. Mann, The Transformation of Law and Economy in Early America, in The Cambridge History of Law in America 365 (Christopher L. Tomlins &…

Bruce H. Mann, Neighbors and Strangers: Law and Community in Early Connecticut (Univ. N.C. Press 1987).

The Many Legalities of Early America (Christopher L. Tomlins & Bruce H. Mann eds., Univ. N.C. Press 2001).

Bruce H. Mann, Republic of Debtors: Bankruptcy in the Age of American Independence (Harvard Univ. Press 2002).

Bruce H. Mann, Introduction, 30 Law & Hist. Rev. 135 (2012).