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...KNOW THE ENVIRONMENT: BRUCE A. ACKERMAN, 33, of Yale. Educated at Harvard and Yale Law. Clerked for Justice John M. Harlan. Married to Yale economics professor; two children...
...scary," says Ackerman, "that in ten years these kids are going to be leaders, and that this law school is the last chance they'll get to systematically study fundamental questions." By systematic study, Ackerman does not mean limiting oneself to law. In his course on environmental law, he requires students to grapple with such arcana as hydrologic modeling and the chemistry of air pollution. Convinced that practicing law is much more than winning a case, Ackerman confronts his students with basic, philosophical questions-e.g., "What is justice?" In his course on social justice-he is now writing...
...James S. Ackerman, professor of Fine Arts, said that he sees the center as a very useful thing for people who work with words and manuscripts...
...However, Ackerman said, the amount of available funding for the humanities has grown enormously in recent years with the establishment of the National Endowment for the Humanities in Washington...
Since work in the humanities is not as expensive as that in the natural sciences, additional funding is not as vital in that area, Ackerman said...