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Bruce Ackerman (born August 19, 1943) is a famous constitutional law scholar in the United States. He is a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School.
Biography
Ackerman received his B.A degree from Harvard University in 1964 and LL.B degree from Yale Law School in 1967. He clerked for U.S Court of Appeals Judge Henry J. Friendly from 1967 to 1968, and then for US. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II, U.S. Supreme Court, from 1968 to 1969.
Ackerman joined the faculty of University of Pennsylvania in 1969. He was a Professor at Yale University from 1974 to 1982 and at Columbia University from 1982 to 1987. Since 1987 Ackerman has been the Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale.
Works
Bruce Ackerman is the author of fifteen books and nearly fifty articles. His interests cover constitutional theory, political philosophy, comparative law and politics, law and economics, American constitutional history, the environment, and social justice.
His major works include Social Justice in the Liberal State (1980), We the People: Foundations (1991) and We the People: Transformations (1998).
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