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13 Apr 2024, 6:15 am by Lawrence Solum
And from the reviews: “Bruce Ackerman is one of the brilliant political philosophers of our time. [read post]
29 Feb 2024, 7:15 pm by Barbara Moreno
Bruce Ackerman, The Decline and Fall of the American Republic (2010). 72. [read post]
12 Feb 2024, 6:46 am by Guest Blogger
Bruce Ackerman had written that the conservatives faced “a huge test,” with their integrity on the line if they didn’t follow liberal views of what “fidelity” to the Constitution requires. [read post]
9 Feb 2024, 4:11 am by Marty Lederman
Supreme Court Might Resolve the Case Even Though Its Decision Probably Won’t Affect the Colorado Presidential Primary Election BallotPart Two: The Three Possible, but Less-than-Ideal, Dispositions of the CasePart Three:  Two Important Things All the Parties Get Wrong, and One Other Important Thing They Don’t AddressBruce Ackerman Misunderstands My Point About What Colorado is Doing and May Do [UPDATED to respond to Bruce's follow-up post]Part Four:… [read post]
7 Feb 2024, 4:30 am by Michael C. Dorf
That question in turn raises sub-questions, as discussed thoughtfully along with discussion of many of the other issues by Professor Marty Lederman in a multi-part series on Balkinization, which also includes helpful recent contributions from Professors Bruce Ackerman, Mark Graber, and Gerard Magliocca.(9) Intertwined with some of the foregoing questions, does the case present a nonjusticiable political question? [read post]
5 Feb 2024, 9:20 am by Mark Tushnet
Were there a chance of a "shakedown" period in which that misunderstanding could be overcome, perhaps the consequences Bruce and others fear might be tempered, but I seriously doubt that there would be such a shakedown period or that the tempering efect would be large. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 7:55 pm by Marty Lederman
 I'm not sure what I wrote to give Bruce that impression, but it's the furthest thing from the truth. [read post]
4 Feb 2024, 5:57 pm by Bruce Ackerman
Anderson: Marty Lederman’s Fundamental Mistake of Law Bruce Ackerman I have learned a lot from Marty Lederman over the years, so I was surprised to find that Part 1 of his “User’s Guide to Trump v. [read post]
15 Nov 2023, 10:21 pm by Jim Lindgren
United States – raises two vital matters: 1) Can Congress tax unrealized capital gains, as Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman argues in an amicus brief; and 2) Can Congress enact a Bernie Sanders/Elizabeth Warren-style wealth tax, including on unrealized capital gains, as the two Amar brothers (Akhil Reed Amar and Vikram David Amar) argue? [read post]
21 Oct 2023, 5:16 pm by Bruce Ackerman
Anybody interested in reading the full text of our "originalist" brief should go to https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docket.aspx and then search for the name "Bruce Ackerman". [read post]
20 Oct 2023, 9:30 pm by Karen Tani
 From Balkinization: Bruce Ackerman (Yale Law School) on "The Original Understanding of the Sixteenth Amendment. [read post]
4 Jul 2023, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
  Loughlin recognizes the centrality of Reconstruction to American constitutionalism (see his discussion of Bruce Ackerman’s work (p. 146–47)). [read post]
22 May 2023, 7:47 pm by Bridget Crawford
” Prior winners include Karl Llewellyn, John Rawls, Ronald Dworkin, Louis Henkin, Bruce Ackerman, Frank Michelman, Cass Sunstein, Martha Nussbaum, Jeremy Waldron, Laurence Tribe, and Owen Fiss. [read post]
7 May 2023, 6:00 am by Lawrence Solum
(Ackerman does not call himself an "originalist," but many of Ackerman's former students do work that is implicitly or explicitly originalist.) [read post]
25 Apr 2023, 4:49 am by Gerard N. Magliocca
Over a year ago, Bruce Ackerman and I co-authored this essay in Politico about the potential for a constitutional crisis in 2024. [read post]
24 Feb 2023, 5:16 am by Mark A. Graber
Likewise, Bruce Ackerman and Gerard Magliocca have argued that Trump can be barred from the presidency if Congress declares that, by encouraging the attack on the Capitol, Trump engaged in “insurrection or rebellion. [read post]