Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale University, and the author of over fifteen books that have had a broad influence in political philosophy, constitutional law, and public policy. His major works include Social Justice in the Liberal State; The Failure of the Founding Fathers; and his multivolume constitutional history, We the People. His book, The Stakeholder Society (with Anne Alstott), served as a basis for Tony Blair's introduction of child investment accounts in the United Kingdom in 2008.

Professor Ackerman is a member of the American Law Institute and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is a Commander of the French Order of Merit, and the recipient of the American Philosophical Society's Henry Phillips Prize for Lifetime Achievement in Jurisprudence.