Ronald Mann is a nationally recognized scholar and teacher in the fields of commercial law and electronic commerce. He received his J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law, where he graduated first in his class and was the managing editor of the Texas Law Review. After graduation, he clerked for Judge Joseph T. Sneed on the Ninth Circuit of the U.S. Court of Appeals and Justice Lewis F. Powell, Jr. of the U.S. Supreme Court. After three years in private practice, he worked for the Justice Department as an Assistant for the Solicitor General of the United States. After a semester as a visiting professor in 2007, Mann accepted a position on the Faculty of Columbia Law School. He had been previously been a professor at the University of Texas Law School from 2003-2007, after six years at the University of Michigan Law School, where he was the Roy F. & Jean Humphrey Proffitt Professor of Law.