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Comment: A holder of a named chair probably meets the notability criteria for academics, but this draft is nowhere near ready for mainspace. It needs to be entirely rewritten in a neutral tone (and, yes, the Tolkien comparison should go, not only because it looks promotional but it is apparently original research as well). bonadea contributions talk 14:22, 12 October 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: To add to the above, I have no idea why there is a sentence about Tolkien in this biography. Is it supposed to be some sort of comparison? Regardless, Wikipedia articles don't include random comments on other subjects entirely. AndyTheGrump (talk) 16:19, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
- Comment: This was created in mainspace and nominated for WP:G11 speedy deletion due to being promotional. Because the topic appears notable, I moved it to draft space for improvement. The sourcing is poor, there are unsourced assertions, and instances of unsubstantiated puffery, which would need to be cleaned up prior to accepting this for publication in mainsapce. ~Anachronist (who / me) (talk) 14:54, 11 October 2025 (UTC)
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Ronald Mann | |
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| Born | 1961 (age 63–64) Texas, U.S. |
| Movement | Federalist Society |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Texas at Austin Rice University |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Bankruptcy, Transactional law,Intellectual Property |
| Institutions | Columbia Law School at Columbia University |
Ronald J. Mann (born 1961, Texas) is an American legal scholar and an Albert E. Cinelli Enterprise Professor of Law [1] at Columbia law school. He also holds the title of emeritus professor at the University of California, Berkeley where he was founding dean of the School of Information. Mann is a jurist specializing in transactional law, commercial finance,secured credit,payment systems, intellectual property in (and) technology.
He taught at Washington University School of Law, University of Michigan Law School, University of Texas School of Law and Columbia Law School.[1]
He presents his juristic opinions and comments at law blog Scotus [2] from 2010. His argument analysis, opinion analysis and case previews cover wider area than his pure academic work.
Early life
[edit]Ronald J. Mann was born on March 18, 1961, in Wooster, Texas. He received his B.A. from Rice University in history in 1982 and his J.D. (Magna Cum Laude) in law from the University of Texas, Houston in 1985.
Contribution
[edit]New California school of microeconomics led the explanation of impact of technology development on economics theory and was unrivalled leader of the field. Team of Varian, Shapiro, Farrell, Litan, Klemperer, Fudenberg et al was locally supported by different view of Paul David, but seldom was another valuable analysis provided by someone else except of Ronald Mann.
Tolkien was a professor of Anglo-Saxon, English Language and Literature, but he has become famous with his fantasy trilogy. Mann has focused on bankruptcy, credit cards and transactional law, before his talent has erupted with his 2005-2007 trilogy consisting of "Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?" [3] ,"Commercializing Open Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Rights Still Matter?" [4] and "The Disputed Quality of Software Patents". [5] His work was a great complement to Hal Varian's microeconomics of Information Technology. [6] Mann was able to work independently and open topics like venture capital, substance of open source and add legal view to patents, which were analysed in the economics view by California New School of Microeconomics.
His paper interchange and dialogue with James Bessen [7] was unique, because a former software developer and business owner (Bestinfo sold to Intergraph) has discussed a current technology problem with the legal scholar. The opinion interchange is very rare in the academic publication world and an involvement of the business as well. Mann and Bessen were pioneers with not many followers.
His transition from standard legal scholar topics (bankruptcy, transactional law) to deep analysis marked one important current trend in legal studies - move from one area expertise and textbook writing (kind of Paul Torremans [8] Intellectual Property Law) to deeper legal analysis requiring multi-disciplinary or at least current technology knoweldge.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Ronald Mann". Columbia Law School.
- ^ "SCOTUSblog-Ronald Mann, Contributor". SCOTUSblog.
- ^ "Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry" (PDF). Columbia University.
- ^ "The Commercialization of Open-Source Software: Do Property Rights Still Matter?" (PDF). Columbia University.
- ^ "The Disputed Quality of Software Patents" (PDF). Columbia University.
- ^ "Hal R. Varian" (PDF). University of California, Berkeley - School of Information.
- ^ Bessen, James (June 2006). "A Comment on 'Do Patents Facilitate Financing in the Software Industry?'". Boston University School of Law.
- ^ "School of Law-Paul Torremans, Contributor". University of Nottingham.
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