Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz

Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz (born November 28, 1970) is an Associate Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center. He writes and teaches in the fields of constitutional law, statutory interpretation, and federal jurisdiction.

Rosenkranz graduated from Phillips Academy and Yale University, and received his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1999, transferring to Yale after spending his first year at NYU School of Law. He clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit from 1999-2000 and for Justice Kennedy on the Supreme Court during the 2001 term. He was an attorney-advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice from 2002-2004.

Rosenkranz is a member of the Board of Visitors of the Federalist Society and an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University. He was a member of the Justice Advisory Committee of Republican presidential candidate John McCain during the 2008 campaign.

Publications and Testimony

• The Nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to be an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States: Hearing Before the Senate Judiciary Committee (2009). [1]
• An American Amendment, 32 Harv. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 475 (2009). [2]
• The President’s Signing Statement Upon Signing The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008: Hearing Before the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations (2008). [3]
• Condorcet and the Constitution: A Response to The Law of Other States, 59 Stan. L. Rev. 1281 (2007). [4]
• Presidential Signing Statements Under the Bush Administration: Hearing Before the House Committee on the Judiciary (2007). [5]
• Presidential Signing Statements: Hearing Before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary (2006). [6]
• Executing the Treaty Power, 118 Harv. L. Rev. 1867 (2005). [7]
• H. Res. 97 and the Appropriate Role of Foreign Judgments in the Interpretation of American Law: Hearing Before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution (2005). [8]
• Federal Rules of Statutory Interpretation, 115 Harv. L. Rev. 2085 (2002). [9]