Rosa Brooks

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Rosa Brooks
Brooks in 2017
Brooks in 2017
Born
New York City
EducationHarvard University (BA)
Christ Church, Oxford (MSt)
Yale University (JD)
Political partyDemocratic
Parents
RelativesBen Ehrenreich (brother)

Rosa Brooks is an American law professor, journalist, author and foreign policy commentator. She is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. Brooks is also an adjunct scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From April 2009 to July 2011, Brooks was a counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy.

Brooks is a commentator on politics and foreign policy. She served as a columnist and contributing editor for Foreign Policy and as a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Brooks authored the 2016 book How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything and the 2021 book Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City.

At Georgetown Law, Brooks founded the Program on Innovative Policing, which in 2017 launched the Police for Tomorrow Fellowship Program with Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department. She founded the Leadership Council for Women in National Security and the Transition Integrity Project.

Early life and education[edit]

Rosa Brooks is the daughter of author Barbara Ehrenreich and psychologist John Ehrenreich, but her parents separated when she was young. Her brother is journalist and author Ben Ehrenreich. She was a student at Syosset High School in Syosset, NY, but left early to attend Harvard. In 1991 Brooks earned a Bachelor of Arts from Harvard University.[1] While an undergraduate, Brooks served as president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard's undergraduate public service organization. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a Marshall Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford.[1] In 1996 she received a J.D. from Yale Law School.[1]

Career[edit]

From April 2009 to July 2011, Brooks was a counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy. She received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for her work.[2] In the late Clinton administration, Brooks was senior adviser to Assistant Secretary Harold Hongju Koh at the U.S. Department of State. She taught at the University of Virginia School of Law, and worked as Special Counsel to the President at the Open Society Institute. She was the director of Yale Law School's human rights program. She was a consultant for Human Rights Watch, a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard, a board member of Amnesty International USA and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Brooks served on the board of the Open Society Foundation's US Programs Fund and currently serves on the board of the Harper's Magazine Foundation, the Advisory Committee of National Security Action and the Steering Committee of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security.[3]

Writings[edit]

Brooks' scholarly work has focused mostly on national security, terrorism and rule of law issues, international law, human rights, law of war and failed states. Along with Jane Stromseth and David Wippman, Brooks coauthored Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (2006).[4] Brooks is also the author of numerous scholarly articles published in law reviews.[5][6][7]

Brooks authored the 2016 book How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything.[8] It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was selected by Military Times as one of the ten best books of the year. The book was also shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Arthur Ross Book Award.[citation needed] In 2021, she published Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City.

Political commentary[edit]

In addition to her columns for the Los Angeles Times and Foreign Policy, Brooks was a founder of Foreign Policy's weekly podcast, The E.R.,[9] and is now a member of the Deep State Radio podcast team. She has been a guest and panelist on MSNBC, Fox, CNN and NPR.[10][11] Brooks has contributed op-eds and book reviews to the Washington Post, The New York Times, and numerous other publications.[12]

Personal life[edit]

Brooks has two children and is married to LTC Joseph Mouer,[13] a now-retired Army Special Forces officer. She was also a reserve police officer with the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.[14]

Bibliography[edit]

  • Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the Nation's Capital, Penguin, 2021, ISBN 9780525557852 [15]
  • How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, Simon and Schuster, 2016, ISBN 9781476777863[16][17]
  • Rosa Brooks, Jane Stromseth, David Wippman, Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions, Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 0521678013[18][19]
  • A Garden of Paper Flowers: An American at Oxford, Picador, 1994, ISBN 9780330327947 (under the name Rosa Ehrenreich; later articles are credited to Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks)

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c "Profile Rosa Brooks". law.georgetown.edu.
  2. ^ "Rosa Brooks". Retrieved February 22, 2021.
  3. ^ "Rosa Brooks". Retrieved February 22, 2021.
  4. ^ "Can Might Make Rights? - Cambridge University Press". www.cambridge.org.
  5. ^ "Rosa Brooks - We the People's Executive".
  6. ^ "Rosa Brooks - The Politics of the Geneva Conventions".
  7. ^ "Rosa Brooks - War Everywhere".
  8. ^ Evans, Harold (August 5, 2016). "Rosa Brooks Examines War's Expanding Boundaries". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  9. ^ "FP's The Editor's Roundtable (The E.R.)". Foreign Policy. Retrieved April 18, 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  10. ^ "Rosa Brooks". Bloggingheads.tv. Retrieved April 18, 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  11. ^ "News Hounds: Liberal Lady Lawyer Runs Rings Around Bill O'Reilly on Subject of GITMO Detainees". newshounds.us.
  12. ^ Brooks, Rosa (April 24, 2020). "Police officers nationwide need to consider going hands-off during this crisis". Washington Post.
  13. ^ Helaine Olen (August 10, 2012). "The Smaller, Cheaper, Just-for-Us Wedding". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2016. CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)
  14. ^ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/565187/tangled-up-in-blue-by-rosa-brooks/
  15. ^ "Tangled Up in Blue - Penguin Random House". Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  16. ^ Senior, Jennifer (August 1, 2016). "Review: 'How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything'". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved August 5, 2016. At its finest, "How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything" is a dynamic work of reportage, punctuated by savory details like this one. But Ms. Brooks has a larger ambition: She wants to explore exactly what happens to a society when the customary distinctions between war and peace melt away.
  17. ^ How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything, Simon & Schuster
  18. ^ "Can Might Make Rights? - Cambridge University Press". www.cambridge.org. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  19. ^ "Can Might Make Rights? - Cambridge University Press". www.cambridge.org. Retrieved August 5, 2016.

External links[edit]

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