Susan Rose-Ackerman

Susan Rose-Ackerman (born Susan Gould Rose on April 23, 1942 in Mineola, New York) is Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence (Law and Political Science) 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, which has been translated into 17 languages, and From Elections to Democracy: Building Accountable Government in Hungary and Poland plus the edited volumes: International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption, vol I, vol II (with Tina Søreide), Comparative Administrative Law (with Peter Lindseth), and Anti-Corruption Policy: Can International Actors Play a Constructive Role? (with Paul Carrington).

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 policy-making and the political economy of corruption.

Professor Rose-Ackerman is a member of the Advisory Board to the Allard Prize for International Integrity, and as such has a significant role in the selection of prize recipients.

She attended Wellesley College, where she obtained a BA 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 also a student at Yale.

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. 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.

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.

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, 9 November 2010.
• International Handbook on the Economics of Corruption (Elgar Original Reference), Edward Elgar Pub, 2013.