Michel Rosenfeld

Michel Rosenfeld is the Justice Sydney L. Robins Professor of Human Rights and Director, Program on Global and Comparative Constitutional Theory at the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law.

Rosenfeld has been at Cardozo since 1988 and teaches courses in Comparative Constitutionalism, Constitutional Law I, Constitutional Law II, Constitutional Interpretation, Constitutionalism and Democracy in an Age of Globalization and Privatization. He obtained his Juris Doctor degree from Northwestern University in 1974, and received his B.A. (1969), M.A. (1971), M.Phil. (1978) and Ph.D. (1991) from Columbia University.

He is the author of several books, including Just Interpretations: Law Between Ethics and Politics and Affirmative Action and Justice: A Philosophical and Constitutional Inquiry, a coauthor of Comparative Constitutionalism: Cases and Materials, and most recently author of The Identity of the Constitutional Subject: Selfhood, Citizenship, Culture and Community. He has been the President of the International Association of Constitutional Law (1999-2004) and is Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. He was awarded the French Legion of Honor in 2004 and named to a 2007-2008 Blaise Pascal Excellence Research Chair. He lives in New York City. Through his first wife Evelyn (nee Korngold) he is the father of Alexis, a guitarist, and Maya, a photographer.

External links

• [1]: Cardozo Faculty: Michel Rosenfeld