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Bruce Ackerman

Bruce Ackerman is Sterling professor of law and political science at Yale, and the author of Before the Next Attack: Preserving Civil Liberties in an Age of Terrorism (2006) and, most recently, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic (2010)

October 2012

  • Campaign posters for the European treaty are affixed in streets near Paris

    How to make a European constitution for the 21st century

    Bruce Ackerman and Miguel Maduro
    Bruce Ackerman and Miguel Maduro: Europe needs a solution to its crisis that will be accepted by its citizens. The South African model may be the answer

June 2011

  • Ohio Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich

    How to resolve the War Powers impasse

    Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway

    Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway: Dennis Kucinich is wrong about Libya but right about the law: Congress and the president must fix this War Powers Act hiatus

April 2011

  • Bradley Manning

    Open letter
    Bradley Manning's inhumane treatment

    Bruce Ackerman and others

    Bruce Ackerman and others: Open letter: The president's own legal training must tell him how the abuse of the alleged WikiLeaks source violates constitutional norms

January 2011

  • Pakistani men look at posters depicting Osama bin Laden as a hero at a roadside shop in Peshawar

    Did Congress approve America's longest war?

    Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway

    Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway: Congress did empower the president in 2001 to pursue al-Qaida in Afghanistan. But a decade later, where's the oversight?

December 2010

  • Julian Assange is driven into Westminster Magistrates Court

    liberty central
    Charging Julian Assange could be unconstitutional

    Bruce Ackerman and Sara Aronchick Solow

    Bruce Ackerman and Sara Aronchick Solow: The due process clause rules out prosecuting WikiLeaks' founder – a non-US citizen – for extraterritorial offences

April 2010

  • Political TV debates

    General election 2010: Cif at the polls
    Why the Lib Dems do well out of TV debates

    Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin
    Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin: The leaders' debates have prompted voters to re-examine their old party identities in light of their policy preferences

February 2009

  • A national endowment for journalism

    Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres

    Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres: Efforts to save print newspapers are missing the point. The real question is how to save investigative reporting

December 2008

  • A legal time bomb in Iraq

    Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway

    Bruce Ackerman and Oona Hathaway: Obama must return US foreign policy to the rule of law - and the mandate for war is about to expire

September 2008

  • The coming transatlantic crisis

    Bruce Ackerman

    Bruce Ackerman: Russia's resurgence as a world power and America's decline mean that US and European interests are on a collision course

August 2008

  • What Georgia means for Europe

    Bruce Ackerman

    Bruce Ackerman: Russia's military hostilities in Georgia provides a new impetus for strengthening the European Union

January 2008

  • Where money is no object

    Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres
  • Checks, please

    Bruce Ackerman

October 2007

  • Inherit the windfall

    Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott

    Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott: Funding baby bonds with the tax on private inheritance is both fair and just.

July 2007

  • What we owe 'suspected terrorists'

    Bruce Ackerman

    Bruce Ackerman: Compensating detainees who turn out to be innocent is the right thing to do, and would create economic incentives that improve the fight against terrorism.

June 2007

  • The king is dead. Long live the king?

    Bruce Ackerman

    Bruce Ackerman: George Bush's presidency is falling apart, but the battle over civil liberties for enemy detainees is just getting started.

May 2007

  • Dealing with the worst

    Bruce Ackerman

    Bruce Ackerman: Britain is losing Blair, but America is stuck with Bush - and that's because the British system is much better at getting rid of a discredited chief executive.