Susan Rose-Ackerman is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and is co-director of the Center for Law, Economics, and Public Policy at Yale Law School. She is an expert in political corruption and development, administrative law, law and regulatory policy, the nonprofit sector, and federalism. Her recent books are Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform, 2nd edition, with Bonnie J. Palifka, Due Process of Lawmaking, and From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland, plus the following edited volumes: International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, vols. I & II, Comparative Administrative Law, Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role?, and Greed, Corruption and the Modern State. 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. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University and has held Guggenheim and Fulbright Fellowships. She has a B.A. from Wellesley College. Her current research focuses on comparative administrative law and public policy-making and the political economy of corruption.
Biography
She attended Wellesley College, where she obtained a B.A. in economics and then attended Yale University, where she was awarded a PhD in economics in 1970. In May 1967, she married Bruce Ackerman, 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, thereafter returning to Yale. In 1982 she moved to Columbia University and in 1983 became the director of Columbia Law School 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. She was a visiting research fellow at the World Bank 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 : 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, 2nd edition, with Bonnie J. Palifka, Cambridge UK: Cambridge University Press, 2016.
Due Process of Lawmaking, 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, Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, 2011.
Comparative Administrative Law, Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, 2017.
Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role?, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2013
Greed, Corruption and the Modern State, Cheltenham UK and Northampton MA: Edward Elgar, 2015.
