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6 Feb 2009, 6:40 pm
I begin by reviewing the works of Ronald Dworkin, Jeremy Waldron, and Bruce Ackerman. [read post]
7 May 2018, 7:09 am by Randy Barnett
Neily III Of course, there are numerous other excellent and influential books I might have mentioned by such well-known authors as John Hart Ely, Ronald Dworkin, Akhil Amar, James Ely, Bruce Ackerman, Richard Epstein, Barry Friedman, Richard Fallon, David Strauss, Jack Balkin, Sandy Levinson, James Fleming, Tom West and many more. [read post]
7 Jul 2014, 10:14 am by JB
Bruce Ackerman's huge multi-volume project, We the People, is a form of originalist popular constitutionalism, as is Akhil Amar's America's Constitution, in a very different way. [read post]
4 Mar 2017, 12:46 pm by JB
The video is below.My lecture was called "Constitutional Time," and the thesis was that if we want to understand the meaning of the Trump Presidency we have to understand where we are in constitutional time-- that is, in the history of our republic and its Constitution.In the lecture, I discuss my colleagues Bruce Ackerman's and Steve Skowronek's theories of constitutional time and how they might help us understand Trump's presidency.I also describe the… [read post]
13 May 2020, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
”: The United Church of Canada and the Debate over Abortion Law Reform, 1960–1980 / Katrina AckermanBruce Douville, and Shannon Stettner3 Not a Gift from Above: The Mythology of Homosexual Law Reform and the Making of Neoliberal Queer Histories / Gary KinsmanPart 2: Activist Responses4 “The State’s Key to the Bedroom Door”: Queer Perspectives on Pierre Elliot Trudeau’s “Just Society” in an Era of Bathhouse Raids… [read post]
6 Aug 2015, 8:35 am by Sandy Levinson
There should be no doubt that the current debate over the Iran deal is a genuine "constitutional moment," whether or not it conforms with Bruce Ackerman's rules of recognition for such. [read post]
7 Nov 2018, 9:30 pm by Mitra Sharafi
" - Bruce Ackerman“The study of India’s Constitution, perhaps one of the most important documents of the twentieth century, has long been neglected. [read post]
21 Jul 2015, 4:21 pm by JB
But there is a reason for this, which concerns a general feature of these kinds of theories of large-scale political change.Theories like Stephen Skowronek's theory of political regimes, or, Bruce Ackerman's theory of constitutional moments, work best only in hindsight. [read post]
1 Jun 2014, 12:30 am by Emily Prifogle
Compton (Cambridge) and a review of Bruce Ackerman's We the People Vol. 3: The Civil Rights Revolution (Harvard University Press).Last weekend we noted that Michael Waldman's The Second Amendment: A Biography (Simon & Schuster) was reviewed in the LA Times. [read post]
7 May 2016, 7:32 am by Alex R. McQuade
Bruce Ackerman highlighted some key points in Captain Nathan Smith’s lawsuit against President Obama. [read post]
8 Sep 2022, 6:30 am by Guest Blogger
” But I believe we need to go further down the road suggested by Bruce Ackerman’s seminal work. [read post]
3 Jun 2015, 3:40 am by Jasmine Joseph
Uses Bruce Ackerman’s “We the People” as foundation for enquiry.20. [read post]
2 Jul 2019, 5:38 am by John Mikhail
  Like Bruce Ackerman, he seeks to justify the New Deal era decisions that transformed American constitutional law and created a new baseline that has been (mostly) stable ever since. [read post]
5 Dec 2011, 11:00 pm
By Mike Dorf Yesterday's NY Times contained a letter from Yale Law Professor Bruce Ackerman criticizing the Times's misbegotten crusade to convert law schools into trade schools (previously discussed by me here and here, and by Professor Buchanan here and here). [read post]
11 Mar 2012, 8:17 pm by Rick Hasen
Drawing battle lines early, in the event of a Romney victory and a Scalia or Kennedy retirement. [read post]
2 May 2014, 5:31 pm by Guest Blogger
For the Symposium on Bruce Ackerman, We The People, Volume Three: The Civil Rights Revolution Florence RoismanI’ve already expressed my views on the housing discussion in The Civil Rights Revolution (TCRR). [read post]
2 May 2014, 5:31 pm by Guest Blogger
For the Symposium on Bruce Ackerman, We The People, Volume Three: The Civil Rights Revolution Florence RoismanI’ve already expressed my views on the housing discussion in The Civil Rights Revolution (TCRR). [read post]
21 Aug 2007, 7:59 am
So Ackerman simply proposes to enhance the executive's power; that is all. [read post]
26 Jun 2007, 3:12 am
Bruce, for instance, argues that electoral reform ought to be easier because "heavy hitters like Exxon or General Motors" have no reason to oppose reform. [read post]
24 May 2010, 6:03 am by Big Tent Democrat
Bruce Ackerman wrote: [FDR's] eight appointments to the Supreme Court repudiated the laissez-faire constitutionalism of the preceding era and created the activist national government we know today. [read post]