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 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.[2] Ackerman was also among the unranked bottom 40 in the 2020 Prospect list of the top 50 thinkers for the COVID-19 era.[3]

  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. ^ "The FP Top 100 Global Thinkers". Archived from the original on 2014-11-08. Retrieved 2017-03-05.
  3. ^ "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.