Ronald Mann

Albert E. Cinelli Enterprise Prof. of Law, Co-Dir. Charles E. Gerber Prog. in Transactional Studies

Office: Jerome Greene Hall, Room 837
435 West 116th Street, Box D-11
New York NY 10027
Tel: 212-854-1570
Email: rmann@law.columbia.edu
Courses/Current Research:
  • Commercial Law
  • Payment Systems
  • Secured Transactions
  • Electronic Commerce
  • Intellectual Property

Education:

The University of Texas School of Law. Austin, TX. J.D., 1985. Texas Law Review, Managing Editor.

Rice University. Houston, TX. B.A., History, 1982.

Media Contact:

  • Public Affairs, 212-854-2650.

Detailed Biography:

Law clerk to Judge Joseph T. Sneed, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (1985-1986) and Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court (1986-1987). Practiced real estate and transactional law in Houston, Texas (1987-1991). Worked for the Justice Department as an Assistant for the Solicitor General of the United States, (1991-1994).

Joined the Columbia faculty on July 1, 2007 after holding tenured positions at the University of Michigan, University of Texas, and the Washington University School of Law. A nationally renowned scholar in the areas of secured credit, payment systems, and intellectual property, he has authored dozens of law review articles in leading law reviews, as well as pathbreaking casebooks on Payment Systems and Electronic Commerce.

He is a member of the American Law Institute, a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference, and a frequent visiting scholar at Federal Reserve Banks.