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Jeffrey Rosen is an American academic and commentator on legal affairs. One reviewer for the Los Angeles Times called him "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator."[1]

Rosen is the son of Sidney and Estelle Rosen, both of whom are psychiatrists.[2] He has been married to Christine Rosen (formerly Stolba), a historian, since 2003. He graduated summa cum laude from Harvard University and was a Marshall scholar at Oxford University, from which he received a second bachelor's degree. He also has a law degree from Yale Law School.[2]

He is a professor of law at George Washington University Law School in Washington, D.C. and has been the commentator on legal affairs for The New Republic since 1992. Rosen is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he speaks and writes about Technology and the Future of Democracy.[3] He often appears as a guest on National Public Radio, and is a frequent contributor to The New York Times Magazine.[4]

Journalism

Rosen has written frequently about the United States Supreme Court. He has interviewed Chief Justice John Roberts,[5] Justice John Paul Stevens,[6] and Justice Stephen Breyer.[7] Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg credited his early support for her Supreme Court candidacy as a factor in her nomination.[8] More recently, an essay posted on The New Republic website about Sonia Sotomayor, the then-potential nominee for the Supreme Court,[9] provoked controversy for using anonymous sources.[10][11] Other media outlets, however, including the New York Times, had relied upon similar sources.[12] [13]

Rosen's article about the Supreme Court have been ideologically unpredictable. He strongly denounced Bush v. Gore,[14] but supported the nomination of Chief Justice Roberts, while opposing that of Justice Alito.[15] He supported Sotomayor's confirmation,[16] and has written stories for the New York Times Magazine about the Court's pro-business[17] and anti-regulatory agenda.[18]

Rosen also writes frequently about the effects of technology on privacy and liberty, including articles about privacy in the Internet Age,[19] surveillance cameras in Britain,[20] data mining in Silicon Valley,[21] technology and the Constitution,[22] the effect of neuroscience on the law,[23] DNA databases and genetic surveillance,[24] and Google and the future of free speech.[25]

Bibliography

  • The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, New York: Times Books, 2007. ISBN 0805081828.
  • The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. ISBN 0195174437.
  • The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age, New York: Random House, 2004. ISBN 0375508007.
  • The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America, New York: Random House, 2000. ISBN 0679445463.

Notes

  1. ^ http://www.davidgarrow-com.hb2hosting.net/File/DJG%202006%20LATRosenRev25June.pdf
  2. ^ a b "WEDDING/CELEBRATIONS; Christine Stolba, Jeffrey Rosen". New York Times. March 9 2003. Retrieved 2007-11-01. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  3. ^ http://www.brookings.edu/experts/rosenj.aspx
  4. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11Neurolaw.t.html?_r=1
  5. ^ http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200701/john-roberts
  6. ^ http://select.nytimes.com/preview/2007/09/23/magazine/1154689944149.html?scp=3&sq=The%20Dissenter%20Stevens&st=cse
  7. ^ http://fora.tv/2007/07/07/Justice_Stephen_Breyer_Democracy_and_the_Court
  8. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/05/magazine/the-new-look-of-liberalism-on-the-court.html?scp=3&sq=ginsburg%20ruth%20bader%20new%20face%20of%20liberalism&st=cse&pagewanted=2
  9. ^ Jeffrey Rosen, "The Case Against Sotomayor: Indictments of Obama's front-runner to replace Souter," The New Republic, May 0, 2009, found at The New Republic website Accessed May 27, 2009.
  10. ^ http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104754798
  11. ^ http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/07/rosen/
  12. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29judge.html
  13. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/us/politics/17assess.html
  14. ^ http://www.tnr.com/article/politics/disgrace
  15. ^ http://www.tnr.com/article/how-judge
  16. ^ http://www.tnr.com/article/sotto-voce
  17. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/16/magazine/16supreme-t.html
  18. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/17/magazine/17CONSTITUTION.html
  19. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2000/04/30/magazine/the-eroded-self.html?scp=1&sq=the+eroded+self+rosen&st=nyt
  20. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/07/magazine/a-watchful-state.html
  21. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2002/04/14/magazine/14TECHNO.html
  22. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/magazine/28ROBERTS.html
  23. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11Neurolaw.t.html
  24. ^ http://www.slate.com/id/2213958/pagenum/all/
  25. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/30/magazine/30google-t.html

References

  • Rosen, Jeffrey (2004). "About the Author". The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age (1st Trade Paperback ed.). New York: Random House. ISBN 0375759859.
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