Susan Rose-Ackerman
Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science
Susan Rose-Ackerman is the Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) with joint appointments between Yale Law School and the Yale Department of Political Science. She has taught and written widely on corruption, law and development, administrative law, law and regulatory policy, the nonprofit sector, and federalism. Her recent books are Corruption and Government: Causes, Consequences and Reform, which has been translated into 13 languages, and From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland. Professor Rose-Ackerman has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at Collegium Budapest, where she co-directs a project on Honesty and Trust in Post-Socialist Societies. She has also been 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.
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), Yale, 1970
M. Phil., Yale, 1967
B.A., Wellesley, 1964
Courses Taught
Administrative Law
Corruption, Economic Development, and Democracy
