Bruce Ackerman

Bruce Arnold Ackerman ( born August 19, 1943) is an American philosopher.

Biography

Bruce A. Ackerman received the 1967 LL.B. degree from the Law School of Yale University. From 1973 to 1974 he was Professor of Law and Public Policy Analysis at the University of Pennsylvania. After that he worked until 1982 as a professor at Yale University. In 1980 he published Social Justice in a Liberal State, alongside John Rawls, A Theory of Justice, one of the most important works of recent writers on social justice. From 1982 to 1987 Ackerman held the Charles Keller Beekman Professor of Law and Philosophy at Columbia University. Since then, he is Sterling Professor of Law and Political Science at Yale. In the academic year 1991/92 he was a Fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin.

Bruce Ackerman is credited with founding the concept of participatory society.

He is married to Susan Rose- Ackerman.

Works (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 era ( "The future of liberal revolution ", 1992). Siedler Verlag, Berlin 1993, ISBN 3-88680-477-1.
• The Stakeholder Society. A model for greater equality of opportunity ("The stake -holder society", 1999). Campus -Verlag, Frankfurt / M. 2001, ISBN 3-593-36835-8 ( with Anne Alstott ).
• . Arguments for the stakeholding Heinrich- Böll -Stiftung, Berlin 2002 ( texts interference; Vol. 1).