Bruce A. Ackerman

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Bruce Arnold Ackerman (born August 19, 1943 ) is an American philosopher and one of the leading US constitutional lawyers .

biography

Bruce A. Ackerman received an LL.B. degree from Yale University Law School in 1967 . From 1973 to 1974 he was Professor of Law and Public Policy Analysis at the University of Pennsylvania . He then worked as a professor at Yale University until 1982. In 1980 he published Social Justice in a Liberal State , alongside John Rawls A Theory of Justice, one of the most important works by recent authors on social justice . Ackerman held the Charles Keller Beekman Professorship of Law and Philosophy at Columbia University from 1982 to 1987 . He has since been Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale. In the academic year 1991/92 he was a fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin .

Bruce Ackerman is considered to be the founder of the concept of the participation society . In 1986 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

He is married to Susan Rose-Ackerman .

Works

He has written 15 books and more than 80 articles. Here is a selection:

  • Social Justice in the Liberal State . University Press, New Haven, Conn. 1980, ISBN 0-300-02439-8 .
  • A new beginning for Europe. After the utopian age (“The future of liberal revolution”, 1992). Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88680-477-1 .
  • The stakeholder society. A model for more equal opportunities (“The stake-holder society”, 1999). Campus-Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-593-36835-8 (together with Anne Alstott).
  • Arguments for stake holding . Heinrich Böll Foundation, Berlin 2002 (texts on interference; vol. 1).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Die Zeit, print edition of December 1, 2016, page 8, A conversation with US constitutional lawyer Bruce Ackerman
  2. ↑ see previous Fellows alphabetically ( Memento from May 10, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Yale Law School, Publications Bruce Ackerman , Retrieved December 5, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Ackerman, Bruce A.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ackerman, Bruce Arnold
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American philosopher
DATE OF BIRTH August 19, 1943