Forum on the Humanities and the Public World

Bruce Ackerman, Law and Political Science, Yale University
“The Death of Citizenship?”

Thursday March 13, 2008
5pm  |  Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale, and the author of 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 and his multivolume constitutional history, We the People. His most recent books are The Failure of the Founding Fathers (2005) and Before the Next Attack (2006). His book, The Stakeholder Society (with Anne Alstott), served as a basis for Tony Blair's recent introduction of child investment accounts in the United Kingdom.

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. He received his B.A. from Harvard University and his LL.B from Yale Law School.

Links

“Bush Isn't the Only Decider” (LA Times, 29 Nov 2007)
“The Art of Stealth” (London Review of Books, 17 Feb 2005)
“On the Home Front, A Winnable War” (New York Times, 6 Nov 2001)
“The Emergency Constitution” (Yale Law Journal, March 2004)
“The Living Constitution” (Harvard Law Review, May 2007)
“The Perils of Judicial Restraint ” (Slate, 5 April 2006)
Articles in the American Prospect