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6 Dec 2011, 7:38 am
NYT: Bruce Ackerman's letter to the editor in response to the recent article by David Segal. [read post]
30 Mar 2011, 5:02 am
Advocates of structural reform, such as Bruce Ackerman, view sanctions as small change, and urge OLC’s makeover as an adjudicative body. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 7:11 am
Bruce Ackerman has feared a “decline and fall of the American Republic,” given that escalating power struggles between the branches of government could leave “the military as a potential arbiter” (85). [read post]
24 Jun 2007, 9:03 pm
" On this last question, Bruce Ackerman has it exactly right: The idea that legal scholars should focus substantial energy on developing democratic reform proposals is important to the legal academy more generally. [read post]
18 Aug 2013, 8:48 am
Bruce Ackerman suggests that members of Congress ought to simply read classified information into the public record (“The moment of truth is now”). [read post]
2 Jun 2007, 7:58 am
Maybe there will be an outraged post or two when the Supreme Court decides to adopt the 1964 southern understanding of color-bind in the Seattle case, but a few recent posts aside on Bruce Ackerman's fascinating Harvard article, I suspect readers of this blog could go for many weeks without being reminded that the United States remains a racial divided society in which a great many poor persons of color and urban dwellers have very, very limited life chances. [read post]
23 Feb 2011, 7:12 am
Bruce Ackerman has feared a "decline and fall of the American Republic," given that escalating power struggles between the branches of government could leave "the military as a potential arbiter" (85). [read post]
15 Jan 2021, 6:30 am
Their other consistent targe is Bruce Ackerman and his term “constitutional moments” which they suggest means that revolutions in singular moments, in “moments of lightning and fire. [read post]
27 Jan 2010, 6:59 am
In a Washington Post op-ed, Bruce Ackerman and Ian Ayres propose that Congress "target the very large class [of companies] that does business with the federal government and ban those companies from 'endorsing or opposing a candidate for public office.'" Ackerman suggests another response to Citizens United in the Wall Street Journal (with co-author David Wu). [read post]
22 Aug 2009, 10:23 am
After all, Jack's great colleague Bruce Ackerman basically agrees that the New Deal required a constitutional transformation, a "non-Article V constitutional amendment," and I basically agree. [read post]
14 Jan 2007, 9:03 pm
Regime Theory Yet another important twist in originalist theory is emphasized by the work of Bruce Ackerman: a twist that I shall call "regime theory. [read post]
26 Aug 2020, 12:44 pm
3) This constitutional regime is subject to informal but effective amendment at what Bruce Ackerman called “constitutional moments. [read post]
1 Jul 2016, 7:16 am
Yesterday, Andrew Ackerman of the WSJ reported, these two nominations were delayed even further by the Senate when an unidentified Democratic Senator moved to block any confirmation vote on Peirce through a procedural step known as a “hold. [read post]
31 Jan 2010, 2:25 pm
Bruce and I are the authors of Voting With Dollars: A New Paradigm for Campaign Finance Reform. [read post]
7 Jan 2019, 1:50 pm
Bruce Ackerman outlines some reasons why it would be illegal for Trump to use an emergency declaration to build the wall: President Trump on Friday said that he was considering the declaration of a "national emergency" along the border with Mexico, which he apparently believes would allow him to divert funds from the military budget to pay for a wall, and to use military personnel to build it... [read post]
27 Apr 2009, 3:50 am
These mechanisms are quite important to understanding constitutional change, and legal change more generally.To understand the importance of Teles' book for constitutional theory, start with Bruce Ackerman and his well-known theory of constitutional moments. [read post]
12 Aug 2007, 1:51 pm
Now I'm a legal practitioner, not an academic or scholar, but I actually have a Sunstein number: Sunstein 4, through the chain Sunstein - John Yoo or Bruce Ackerman [either one works -- and John Yoo is a very odd person to be in my Sunstein chain!] [read post]
14 Sep 2011, 11:57 am
I have watched them teach; I have watched them prepare themselves to teach; I have watched them impart a sense of the ethics of dispassion, open-mindedness and hard work to their students; I have watched them struggle with difficult intellectual assignments; I have heard them talk coherently about difficult and important subjects; I have read a considerable amount of their writings; I have written with them; I have served on legislative drafting and other committees with them; I… [read post]
21 Jun 2011, 7:56 am
Bruce Ackerman has written an op-ed criticizing the Obama administration’s legal foundation justifying intervention in Libya in The New York Times. [read post]
27 May 2011, 6:25 pm
Ranging from particular enthusiasts of "non-originalism," to Ronald Dworkin' s metaphoric likening of the Supreme Court to "Hercules," to Bruce Ackerman's special notion of "non-textual amendments" (i.e., constitutional changes resulting during special "constitutional moments"), and nearly a dozen theories in all, each "theory" advances its own idea of a "living" constitution. [read post]
