Jane Manners

Jane Manners joins Fordham Law as an associate professor. A legal historian who teaches Torts, Legislation and Regulation, and American Legal History, her scholarship centers on 19th Century constitutional history, specifically focusing on congressional and presidential powers. She has written on the development of congressional petitioning, early American understandings of the president’s war powers, and the evolution of laws governing officer removal.

Her scholarship has appeared in both the Fordham Law Review and the Columbia Law Review, among other publications. Prior to joining Fordham Law, she was an assistant professor at Temple University and served as a fellow at New York University School of Law, Columbia Law School, and The New York Historical. Manners earned her J.D. and B.A. from Harvard University, and she holds a Ph.D. in American history from Princeton University. She clerked for Chief Judge Mark L. Wolf of the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.