Jeffrey Rosen

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Jeffrey Rosen (2015)

Jeffrey Rosen (born February 13, 1964 ) is an American lawyer and professor of law at George Washington University .

Career

Rosen attended Dalton School in New York City and graduated there in 1982 as the best of his year. He then studied English and politics at Harvard University . At Harvard he became a member of Phi Beta Kappa in 1985 and spoke as a student speaker in 1986 on the 350th anniversary of the university. In 1986 he received a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude and moved to Balliol College at the University of Oxford , where he graduated in 1988 with a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy , politics and economics . He then went to the Law School of Yale University , where he was awarded the Juris Doctor in 1991.

Following his doctorate, Rosen worked from 1991 to 1992 as a research assistant ( Law Clerk ) for the presiding judge of the Federal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia , Abner J. Mikva .

In 1997 he was associate professor at the Law School of the George Washington University . Since 2008 he has also been a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution .

Jeffrey Rosen has been President of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia , a museum and events forum dedicated to the United States' constitution, since 2013 .

journalism

From 1992 to 2014, Rosen was employed as the legal editor for The New Republic , for which he had been writing articles since 1990. In 2015 he moved to The Atlantic , for which he had also occasionally written articles since 1994. From 1997 to 1999 he also had a permanent position at The New Yorker . In addition to his publications there, numerous articles by Rosen also appeared in publications in the New York Times (from 1986), Washington Post (from 1994) and Time (from 1998).

His publications relate mainly to the Supreme Court of the United States ( Supreme Court ). In his comments on specific cases, he is not considered to belong to any single political ideology. However, Rosen is seen as a critic of legal activism , that is, the judicial decision on matters for which the legislative and executive branches would actually be responsible. At the same time, he takes the view that the Supreme Court should not act unilaterally on its own in its decision-making, but should take into account the role of public opinion regarding constitutional ideals. According to him, the constitutional judges should only enforce those values ​​that are accepted as fundamental by a majority of the population and not pursue “visions” that are “actively and intensely contested” by the majority of the population ( “visions that are actively and intensely contested ” ) .

Legal historian David Garrow wrote in a 2006 review of Rosen's book The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America for the Los Angeles Times that Jeffrey Rosen was "the most widely read and influential commentator on legal matters" in the 1990s and 2000s the United States ( "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator" ).

family

Jeffrey Rosen is the son of psychiatrist and author Sidney Rosen and family therapist Estelle Rosen, of New York City . He is the brother-in-law of the lawyer and temporarily solicitor General Neal Katyal , to whom his sister Joanna Rosen is married.

In 2003 Jeffrey Rosen married the historian Christine Rosen (née Stolba), with whom he has two sons. The wedding ceremony was carried out by the Supreme Court judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg .

Works

  • Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. ISBN 030015867X .
  • with Benjamin Wittes : Constitution 3.0: Freedom & Technological Change. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2011. ISBN 978-0-8157-2212-0 .
  • The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America. New York: Times Books, 2007. ISBN 0-8050-8182-8 .
  • The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-517443-7 .
  • The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age. New York: Random House, 2004. ISBN 0-375-75985-9 .
  • The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America. New York: Random House, 2000. ISBN 0-679-44546-3 .

Web links

Commons : Jeffrey Rosen  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jeffrey Rosen Joining The Atlantic as Contributing Editor , adweek.com, February 23, 2015, accessed April 23, 2017.
  2. ↑ a b David J. Garrow: A modest proposal , Los Angeles Times, June 25, 2006 (accessed on 17 June 2017).
  3. ↑ Jeffrey Rosen: The Supreme Court: Judicial Temperament and the Democratic Ideal. In: Washburn Law Journal , Volume 47, No. 1, Fall 2007, pp. 1–12.
  4. ↑ a b Wedding / Celebrations; Christine Stolba, Jeffrey Rosen , The New York Times, March 9, 2003, accessed April 23, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Rosen, Jeffrey
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1964