Bruce Ackerman

Bruce Ackerman
Ackerman in 2017
Born
Bruce Arnold Ackerman

(1943-08-19) August 19, 1943 (age 81)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education
Occupations
  • Law professor
  • author
TitleSterling Professor of Law and Political Science
Spouse
(m. 1967)
Children
Academic work
DisciplineConstitutional law
InstitutionsUniversity of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Columbia University
Notable worksWe the People (1991–2014)[1]

Bruce Arnold Ackerman (born August 19, 1943) is an American pragmatist[2] legal scholar who serves as a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. In 2010, he was named by Foreign Policy magazine to its list of top global thinkers.[3] Ackerman was also among the unranked bottom 40 in the 2020 Prospect list of the top 50 thinkers for the COVID-19 era.[4]

Early life and education

Ackerman was born on August 19, 1943. He graduated from the Bronx High School of Science and received a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, from Harvard University in 1964 as well as a Bachelor of Laws degree from Yale Law School in 1967. He clerked for U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Henry Friendly from 1967 to 1968, and then for U.S. Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II from 1968 to 1969.

Career

Ackerman joined the faculty of University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1969.[5] 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. He teaches classes at Yale on the concepts of justice and on his theories of constitutional transformation. His wife, Susan Rose-Ackerman, is also a professor at Yale Law School who teaches classes on administrative law. Their son, John M. Ackerman, is also an academic who lives and works in Mexico. Their daughter, Sybil Ackerman-Munson is an environmentalist in Portland, Oregon. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1986.[6] He is also a Commander of the Order of Merit of the French Republic.

Ackerman is listed as counsel in U.S. Army Captain Nathan Michael Smith's lawsuit against President Barack Obama.[7] The lawsuit asserts five counts against the President: that Operation Inherent Resolve violates the War Powers Resolution, that the Constitution's Take Care Clause requires the President to publish a sustained legal justification of his actions, that the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists does not authorize the operation against ISIS, that the Iraq Resolution does not authorize the operation in Iraq, and that the Commander in Chief clause does not allow the President to authorize the operation.[8] Captain Smith's attorneys allege he has standing to sue because he will be personally liable for any damages he inflicts in an illegal war.[9] The White House responded that the lawsuit raises "legitimate questions".[10] After the district court dismissed the lawsuit as a political question, Ackerman appealed.[11]

In 2022, Ackerman co-authored a Politico article with Gerard Magliocca predicting that the 2024 United States presidential election would divide the country into Democratic states that disqualify Donald Trump from appearing on the ballot under the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution for the January 6 United States Capitol attack and Republican states which would not, potentially leading to a constitutional crisis in which no candidate wins a supermajority of votes in the United States Electoral College and in which the United States House of Representatives either nominates Trump as the winner despite losing the electoral vote or is completely incapable of resolving the issue through a contingent election as constitutionally required.[12]

Works

He is the author of nineteen books and more than ninety articles. His interests cover constitutional theory, political philosophy, comparative law and politics, law and economics, American constitutional history, the environment, modern economy and social justice.

His works include:

  • 1980: Social Justice in the Liberal State (ISBN 9780300024395)
  • 1991: We the People, Volume 1, Foundations (ISBN 9780674948419)
  • 1995: Is NAFTA Constitutional?, with David Golove (ISBN 9780674467125)
  • 1998: We the People, Volume 2, Transformations (ISBN 9780674003972)
  • 1999: The Stakeholder Society, with Anne Alstott (ISBN 9780300078268)
  • 2002: Voting with Dollars, with Ian Ayres (ISBN 9780300127010)
  • 2004: Deliberation Day, with James S. Fishkin (ISBN 978-0-300-10964-1)
  • 2005: The Failure of the Founding Fathers (ISBN 9780674023956)
  • 2006: Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism
  • 2010: The Decline and Fall of the American Republic (ISBN 9780674057036)
  • 2014: We the People, Volume 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (ISBN 9780674050297)
  • 2018: Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law (ISBN 9780674970687)
  • 2024: The Postmodern Predicament: Existential Challenges of the Twenty-First Century (ISBN 9780300277098)

We the People: Foundations is best known for its forceful argument that the "switch in time", whereby a particular member of the US Supreme Court changed his judicial philosophy to one that permitted much more of the New Deal legislation in response to the so-called court-packing plan, is an example of political determination of constitutional meaning. Ackerman delivered the 2006 Oliver Wendell Holmes Lectures at Harvard Law School.[13]

The Stakeholder Society served as a basis for the introduction of Child Trust Funds in the United Kingdom.[14]

University of Tehran held a conference in May 2019, about Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law with Ackerman and Maftouni as keynote speakers. Maftouni also wrote a review on the book which was published in The Socratic Inquiry newsletter[15] and an analytical paper about some parts of the book which was published in Journal of Contemporary Research on Islamic Revolution.[16]

See also

References

  1. ^ Thiruvengadam, Arun K. (2019). "Evaluating Bruce Ackerman's 'Pathways to Constitutionalism' and India as an Exemplar of 'Revolutionary Constitutionalism on a Human Scale'". International Journal of Constitutional Law. 17 (2): 682. doi:10.1093/icon/moz048. ISSN 1474-2659.
  2. ^ Ackerman, Bruce (2007). "The Living Constitution". Harvard Law Review. 120 (7): 1737–1812. Retrieved 2024-11-28.
  3. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Archived from the original on 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
  4. ^ "The world's top 50 thinkers for the Covid-19 age" (PDF). Prospect. 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-09-07. Retrieved 2020-09-08.
  5. ^ "Bruce Arnold Ackerman" (PDF) (Curriculum vitae). 1 April 2019. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2019-04-30. Retrieved 2019-04-30.
  6. ^ "Book of Members, 1780–2010: Chapter A" (PDF). American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 1 April 2011.
  7. ^ Savage, Charlie (5 May 2016). "An Army Captain Takes Obama to Court Over ISIS Fight". The New York Times. pp. A14. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  8. ^ Ackerman, Bruce (5 May 2016). "Is America's War on ISIS Illegal". The New York Times. pp. A25. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  9. ^ Ford, Matt (5 May 2016). "Is the U.S. War Against ISIS Illegal?". The Atlantic. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  10. ^ The Editorial Board of the New York Times (10 May 2016). "A Soldier's Challenge to the President". The New York Times. pp. A22. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  11. ^ Ackerman, Bruce (8 April 2017). "Trump Must Get Congress's O.K. on Syria". The New York Times. p. A25. Retrieved 20 October 2017.
  12. ^ "Biden vs. Trump: The Makings of a Shattering Constitutional Crisis". POLITICO. February 2022. Retrieved 2023-04-24.
  13. ^ Bruce Ackerman, The Living Constitution, 120 Harv. L. Rev. 1737 (2007).
  14. ^ For a more extended consideration of his contributions over the course of his career, go to Biographical Overview: "Bruce Ackerman" at law.yale.edu
  15. ^ Nadia Maftouni, Book Review: Revolutionary Constitutions: Charismatic Leadership and the Rule of Law (Bruce Ackerman, Harvard University Press, 2019), The Socratic Inquiry Newsletter, 1 (3), 2-3 (2019).
  16. ^ Nadia Maftouni, Is the Iranian Revolution Sustaining a Constitutional System? The Assessment in Terms of Bruce Ackerman's Theory, Journal of Contemporary Research on Islamic Revolution, 2 (6), 85-98 (2020).

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