“... of mercy and the power to freeze legislation. Loughlin mentions the constitutional scholar Bruce Ackerman’s account of having been badgered by the State Department since 1989 ‘to serve on delegations to advise one or another country on its constitutional transition to democracy’. Ackerman wasn’t alone. In at least ...”

“... at the outset I should declare an interest – the influence of Woody Allen’s comic style on my own. Two out of the three collections of humorous pieces included in this bumper volume were my primers, my textbooks, the canonical forms to which I have returned time and again when ...”

“... time, how good white South African cricket was. Take the schoolboy generation I saw rising around me. Playing against Hilton College, I came up against Hylton Ackerman and Mike Procter – the latter opening both the batting and bowling at the age of 13 – while at Durban High School the opening pair of Lee Irvine and ...”

“... Tears’ puts the classic view: ‘Outside in New Orleans/ The heat was almost stifling/But my hotel room as usual/Was freezing and unkind.’ Are we so pure of spirit, so contemptuous of comfort? Think of heating, rather than cooling. Is it any more absurd to think that old people in Kansas City should be helped with their air-conditioning bills in ...”

“... which read the work as determined by personal feeling, and the more scholarly accounts of Robert Ackerman and Hugh Lloyd-Jones which located her ‘at the heart’ of the (so-called) Cambridge Ritualists. Reluctant to offer an alternative myth, yet anxious to avoid already trampled ground, Beard instead explores Harrison’s formative years in London, and ...”

“... a word or passage became part of the text and acquired its meaning. Not only on the right. Bruce Ackerman, Akhil Amar and Jack Balkin are just three of the most prominent liberal originalists writing today. Liberals on the court have undergone a similar shift. In his Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission dissent, Stevens wrote a lengthy excursus on ...”

“... has claimed a number of prominent victims, including John Rawls, Thomas Nagel, Dworkin, Bruce Ackerman, Brian Barry and even Jürgen Habermas.Surprisingly, Gray pays little attention to it, mentioning the idea only as a historical aberration. It poses problems for him, however, since it cuts across his two-face taxonomy. Neutrality matches part of the ...”