Susan Rose-Ackerman (born

née The birth name is the name of the person given upon their birth. The term may be applied to the surname, the given name or to the entire name. Where births are required to be officially registered, the entire name entered onto a births registe ...

Rose; born April 23, 1942) is

Henry R. Luce Henry Robinson Luce (April 3, 1898 – February 28, 1967) was an American magazine magnate who founded ''Time'', ''Life'', ''Fortune'', and ''Sports Illustrated'' magazines. He has been called "the most influential private citizen in the Ameri ...

Professor Emeritus of Law and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

. She is an expert in

political corruption Political corruption is the use of powers by government officials or their network contacts for illegitimate private gain. Forms of corruption vary but can include bribery, lobbying, extortion, cronyism, nepotism, parochialism, patronage, influen ...

and development, administrative law, law and regulatory policy, the nonprofit sector, and federalism. Rose-Ackerman has been a fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Sciences Po, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and Collegium Budapest, as well as a visiting research scholar at the

World Bank The World Bank is an international financial institution that provides loans and Grant (money), grants to the governments of Least developed countries, low- and Developing country, middle-income countries for the purposes of economic development ...

. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from

and has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. She has a B.A. from

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

. Her current research focuses on comparative administrative law and public policy-making and the political economy of corruption.

Biography

She attended

, where she obtained a B.A. in economics (1964) and then attended

, where she was awarded a PhD in economics in 1970. In May 1967, she married

Bruce Ackerman Bruce Arnold Ackerman (born August 19, 1943) is an American legal scholar who serves as a Sterling Professor at Yale Law School. In 2010, he was named by ''Foreign Policy'' magazine to its list of top global thinkers. Ackerman was also identified ...

, who was a student at Yale Law School. They are the parents of John M. Ackerman and Sybil Ackerman-Munson. Rose-Ackerman worked as an assistant professor from 1972 to 1974 at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

, thereafter returning to Yale. In 1982 she moved to

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

and in 1983 became the director of

Columbia Law School Columbia Law School (CLS) is the Law school in the United States, law school of Columbia University, a Private university, private Ivy League university in New York City. The school was founded in 1858 as the Columbia College Law School. The un ...

Center for Law and Economics. In 1987 she again returned to Yale and in 1992 took over the Henry R. Luce Chair of Philosophy of Law at the Yale Law School, and the Department of Political Science. Rose-Ackerman is also co-director of the Yale Law School's Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy. She has held fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the

Fulbright Commission The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States cultural exchange programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people o ...

. She was a visiting research fellow at the

in 1995-96 where she did research on corruption and economic development. Professor Rose-Ackerman is a member of the Advisory Board to the Allard Prize for International Integrity.

Works

Major publications include the following: * "The economics of corruption". ''Journal of Public Economics'' 4.2 (1975): 187-203. * ''The Economics of Corruption: a study in political economy''. New York: Academic Press, 1978. * ''Rethinking the Progressive Agenda: The Reform of the American Regulatory State''. Free Pr, 1992. * ''Corruption and government: Causes, consequences, and reform''. Cambridge University Press, 1999.
''Economics of Administrative Law (Economic Approaches to Law Series)''
Edward Elgar Pub, 2008.
"Corruption: Greed, Culture and the State"
''

The Yale Law Journal ''The Yale Law Journal'' (YLJ) is a student-run law review affiliated with the Yale Law School. Published continuously since 1891, it is the most widely known of the eight law reviews published by students at Yale Law School. The journal is one ...

'', 9 November 2010.
''International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption (Elgar Original Reference)''
Edward Elgar Pub, 2013. * ''Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform'', 2nd edition, with Bonnie J. Palifka, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016. * ''Due Process of Lawmaking''(with Stephanie Egidy and James Fowkes), Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2015. * ''From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland'', Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. * ''International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption'', vol I, Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, 2006, vol II (with Tina Søreide), Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, 2011. * ''Comparative Administrative Law'' (with Peter Lindseth and Blake Emerson), Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, 2017. * ''Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role?'' (with Paul Carrington), Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013 * ''Greed, Corruption and the Modern State'' (with Paul Lagunes), Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, 2015.

References

External links

Susan Rose-Ackerman's profile on Yale University web site.
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