Biographical Sketch
Professor Manns is joining the Law School as an associate professor of law. His teaching and research interests focus on securities regulation, financial institutions, and insurance law. He is a graduate of Yale Law School and received his doctorate from Oxford University, which he attended as a Rhodes Scholar. Manns served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal, and his note on terrorism reinsurance received the Israel H. Peres Prize for the best student publication in the Yale Law Journal.

Manns has written several law review articles on regulatory reform, most recently “Rating Risk After Subprime Mortgage Crisis: A User Fee Approach for Rating Agency Accountability,” which was published in the North Carolina Law Review. Before joining the law school faculty, he clerked for the Honorable J. Harvie Willkinson, III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit and spent several years in private practice in Washington D.C. honing his skills as a securities litigator.

Education
B.A., University of Virginia; D.Phil., Oxford University; J.D., Yale University

Current Semester Courses
Banking Law