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Susan Rose-Ackerman

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Henry R. Luce Professor Emeritus of Jurisprudence, Law School and Department of Political Science
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127 Wall St, New Haven, CT 06511-8918
203-432-4891

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 17 languages, and From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland plus the edited volumes: Interantional Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, vol I, vol II (with Tina Søreide), Comparative Administrative Law (with Peter Lindseth), and Anti-Corruption Poilcy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role? (with Paul Carrington). Professor Rose-Ackerman has been a fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at 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 policymaking and the political economy of corruption.
Education
Ph.D. (Economics), Yale, 1970
M. Phil., Yale, 1967
B.A., Wellesley, 1964

Courses Taught
Administrative Law, Comparative Administrative Law
Corruption, Economic Development, and Democracy

Department: 
LAWDNS Academic Faculty