Bruce Arnold Ackerman was born on August 19,1943 and is an American legal scholar who serves as a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School.
13 Facts About Bruce Ackerman
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Bruce Ackerman graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1964 as well as a Bachelor of Laws degree from Yale Law School in 1967.
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Bruce Ackerman clerked for US Court of Appeals Judge Henry J Friendly from 1967 to 1968, and then for US Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II from 1968 to 1969.
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Bruce Ackerman joined the faculty of University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1969.
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Bruce Ackerman was a professor at Yale University from 1974 to 1982 and at Columbia University from 1982 to 1987.
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Since 1987 Bruce Ackerman has been the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale.
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Bruce Ackerman's wife, Susan Rose-Ackerman, is a professor at Yale Law School who teaches classes on administrative law.
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Bruce Ackerman was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.
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Bruce Ackerman is a Commander of the Order of Merit of the French Republic.
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Bruce Ackerman is listed as counsel in US Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith's lawsuit against President Barack Obama.
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Bruce Ackerman is the author of fifteen books and more than eighty articles.
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Bruce Ackerman's interests cover constitutional theory, political philosophy, comparative law and politics, law and economics, American constitutional history, the environment, modern economy and social justice.
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Bruce Ackerman delivered the 2006 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures at Harvard Law School.