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11 Jan 2012, 7:32 am
Writing in the Wall Street Journal, Yale law professor Bruce Ackerman calls on President Obama to release the legal opinions on which he relied to make these dubious appointments. [read post]
11 Jan 2012, 7:25 am
Writing in Wednesday’s WSJ, Yale Law School’s Bruce Ackerman makes a number of interesting observations about the recent dustup concerning President Obama’s recess appointments. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 8:29 pm
Adler) Yale’s Bruce Ackerman, writing in the WSJ, calls for the White House to release the legal memorandum upon which President Obama based his decision to make several recess appointments while the Senate claimed not to be in recess. [read post]
10 Jan 2012, 4:36 am
Writing in the LA Times, Bruce Ackerman likewise expressed doubts that the Justice Department’s OLC backed the decision: Normally, presidents rely on the Justice Department to present their case on matters of high constitutional importance. [read post]
6 Jan 2012, 5:07 am
UPDATE: Here is some additional commentary from Bruce Ackerman, Lawrence Tribe, and Adam White. [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 8:42 am
By Meteor Blades, cross-posted from Daily Kos Bruce Ackerman writes: This is a time of good cheer at the Pentagon—its watchdog, the inspector general, has just ruled that its Bush-era campaign to manipulate the media was entirely acceptable under Defense Department regulations. [read post]
29 Dec 2011, 3:00 am
. *** As emphasized by Lawrence Lessig in Republic, Lost (presaged somewhat in Ayres’ book with Bruce Ackerman, Voting With Dollars), the bulk of campaign finance dollars comes disproportionately from not just the 1% club, but the richest one-half of one-percenters. [read post]
20 Dec 2011, 3:00 am
Even presented with compelling arguments that law schools are doing OK – in letters by Yale professor Bruce Ackerman, say, or op-eds by FIU prof Stanley Fish – their conviction that a misguided educational system is responsible for a misguided profession cannot and will not be swayed. [read post]
12 Dec 2011, 12:36 pm
The point of the exercise is to have students think about what the Court means to achieve in footnote 4 (mid-way in the discussion I draw on Bruce Ackerman’s persuasive showing that anonymous and diffuse minorities, rather than those that are discrete and insular (and as a result better positioned to protect their interests) really deserve the judicial protection the Court is concerned about). [read post]
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]
6 Dec 2011, 2:17 am
New York Times letter to the editor, The Law School Experience, by Bruce Ackerman (Yale): In urging that law schools become more practice-oriented, you assert that “law is now regarded as a means rather than an end, a tool for solving problems. [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]
5 Dec 2011, 8:17 am
Bruce Ackerman bemoans that "even in elite schools, it is astonishingly easy for law students to lose themselves in clinical work and avoid the sustained, and multi-disciplinary, course-work that should be required for the leaders of the next generation. [read post]
3 Dec 2011, 9:46 am
The most interesting question for me, as one interested in models of long-term structural constitutional change, is which version of living originalism – one that emphasizes punctuated equilibria and relatively large scale regime changes (see Bruce Ackerman and Akhil Amar) or one that emphasizes change in particular areas through social/intellectual/political movements, which may be ongoing, and incremental (see Jack Balkin, Reva Seigel, Robert Post, e.g.) best captures the… [read post]
8 Nov 2011, 10:54 am
Nashiri’s lawyers justify their choice of venue on grounds that convening authority Bruce MacDonald, the defendant, ”resides in Kitsap County” and “primarily works from his office on Naval Base Kitsap Bangor/Kitsap in Silverdale, WA. [read post]
4 Nov 2011, 9:57 am
Savage then quotes Bruce Ackerman: This is a bipartisan project of executive aggrandizement. [read post]
21 Oct 2011, 1:02 pm
Most notably, the United Nations has called for an inquiry into Qaddafi’s death, reports Nick Cumming Bruce of the New York Times. [read post]
19 Oct 2011, 7:56 am
Mostly within my own field of con law, I could imagine some indispensable entries: Bruce Ackerman, 4 We The People: Never Mind (forthcoming 2027, Harvard University Press) Jack Balkin, An Originalist Theory of Constitutional Interpretation Robert Bork, The Seduction of America II: I Was Seduced--and I Love It! [read post]
9 Oct 2011, 10:37 am
Bruce AckermanIt’s important to distinguish between two issues raised by the drone attack that killed Anwar Al Awlaki – the American citizen/ Moslem cleric who gained notoriety by his jihadist sermonizing over the internet. [read post]
1 Oct 2011, 9:05 am
According to an analysis by Yale’s Bruce Ackerman and Anne Alstott, that would generate at least half of $1.5 trillion deficit-reduction target over ten years set for the supercommittee. [read post]
