Professor Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen is Professor of Law at George Washington University and the legal affairs editor of the New Republic. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; Oxford University, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. His essays and commentaries have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Atlantic Monthly, on National Public Radio, and in the New Yorker, where he has been a staff writer. The Chicago Tribune named him one of the ten best magazine journalists in America, and the LA Times called him ‘the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator’.


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Saturday, 3.30pm Lecture Theatre 1
Privacy is dead. Long live privacy?

Sunday, 2.00pm Lecture Theatre 1
My brain made me do it

 Publications

The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America (Times Books, 2007) 
The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America (Oxford University Press Inc, USA, 2006) 
The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age (Random House Trade, 2005)
The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America (Vintage Books USA, 2001)

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"The 2006 Battle of Ideas did what it said on the tin: prejudices were punctured, common wisdom was questioned and original thinking honoured. The saying was coined in Texas, but I suggest that the Battle of Ideas adopts it as the conference motto: ‘sacred cows make the best burgers."
George Brock, Saturday Editor, The Times