Susan Rose-Ackerman

Her recent books are Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform, 2nd edition, with Bonnie J. Palifka (the first edition has been translated into 17 languages), Due Process of Lawmaking (with Stephanie Egidy and James Fowkes), 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 (with Tina Søreide), Comparative Administrative Law (with Peter Lindseth and Blake Emerson), Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role? (with Paul Carrington), and Greed, Corruption and the Modern State (with Paul Lagunes).

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.

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.

She attended Wellesley College, where she obtained a B.A. in economics (1964) 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.

Susan Rose-Ackerman (born Susan Gould Rose on April 23, 1942 in Mineola, New York) is Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Law and Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Yale University. She is an expert in political corruption and development, administrative law, law and regulatory policy, the nonprofit sector, and federalism.