Ronald J. Mann

Ronald Mann is a Professor of Law at Columbia and a prominent scholar in the areas of credit cards, software patents, and electronic commerce in general. His book on credit cards (Charging Ahead) is an award-winning account of the global rise of the credit card. His texts on E-Commerce and Payment Systems are the leading law-school treatments on those subjects. He has degrees from Rice University (B.A. 1982 (History)) and the University of Texas (J.D. 1985) and clerked for Lewis F. Powell on the United States Supreme Court.