Jeffrey Rosen (legal academic)

Rosen attended the Dalton School, a private college preparatory school on New York City's Upper East Side, and graduated in 1982 as valedictorian. He then studied English literature and government at Harvard University, graduating in 1986 with a Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude. He was subsequently a Marshall Scholar at Balliol College, Oxford, in philosophy, politics, and economics, from which he received a second bachelor's degree in 1988. He then attended the Yale Law School, where he served as a senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1991.{{cite web|url=https://www.law.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2351/f/downloads/Rosen_CV_Jan2018.pdf|title=Rosen CV|publisher=George Washington University Law School|date=January 2018|access-date=10 February 2019|archive-date=24 August 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190824174758/https://www.law.gwu.edu/sites/g/files/zaxdzs2351/f/downloads/Rosen_CV_Jan2018.pdf|url-status=dead}}

After graduating from law school, Rosen served as law clerk to Chief Judge Abner Mikva of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Rosen was the commentator on legal affairs for The New Republic from 1992 to 2014. He then joined The Atlantic, as a contributing editor.{{cite web|last1=Marx|first1=Damon|title=Jeffrey Rosen Joining The Atlantic as Contributing Editor|url=http://www.adweek.com/fishbowldc/jeffrey-rosen-joining-the-atlantic-as-contributing-editor/141218|website=AdWeek|date=23 February 2015 |access-date=29 March 2016}} He was a staff writer at the New Yorker,{{cite web|title=Jeffrey Rosen|url=http://www.rcfp.org/jeffrey_rosen|website=Reporters Committee for the Freedom of the Press|access-date=29 March 2016}} and he is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/11/magazine/11Neurolaw.t.html?_r=1 | work=The New York Times | title=The Brain on the Stand | first=Jeffrey | last=Rosen | date=March 11, 2007 | access-date=May 6, 2010}}

Rosen is a professor of law at the Law School of George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

In 2024, Rosen was named a Chevalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Order of Arts and Letters) of France.{{Cite web |title=Council of the Order of Arts and Letters |url=https://www.culture.gouv.fr/en/Know-us/Organisation-du-ministere/Council-of-the-Order-of-Arts-and-Letters |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=www.culture.gouv.fr |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=French Ambassador Honors National Constitution President & CEO Jeffrey Rosen as Chevalier of the Ordres des Arts et Des Lettres at 'Pursuit of Happiness' Event {{!}} Constitution Center |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/about/press-room/press-releases/french-ambassador-honors-national-constitution-president-ceo-jeffrey-rosen-as-chevalier-of-the-ordres-des-arts-et-des-lettres-at-pursuit-of-happiness-event |access-date=2024-02-21 |website=National Constitution Center – constitutioncenter.org |language=en}}

Rosen has written frequently about the U.S. Supreme Court. He has interviewed Chief Justice John Roberts,{{cite web|url=https://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200701/john-roberts|title=Roberts's Rules|first=Jeffrey|last=Rosen|website=The Atlantic |date=January 2007|access-date=8 September 2016}} Justice John Paul Stevens,{{cite news| url=https://select.nytimes.com/preview/2007/09/23/magazine/1154689944149.html?scp=3&sq=The%20Dissenter%20Stevens&st=cse | work=The New York Times | title=The Dissenter | first=Jeffrey | last=Rosen | date=September 23, 2007 | access-date=May 6, 2010}} Justice Stephen Breyer,{{cite web|url=http://library.fora.tv/2007/07/07/Justice_Stephen_Breyer_Democracy_and_the_Court|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151225010043/http://library.fora.tv/2007/07/07/Justice_Stephen_Breyer_Democracy_and_the_Court|url-status=usurped|archive-date=December 25, 2015|title=Justice Stephen Breyer: Democracy and the Court|access-date=8 September 2016}} Justice Elena Kagan,{{cite web|last1=Institute|first1=The Aspen|title=0:27 / 31:43 Justice Elena Kagan at the Aspen Ideas Festival|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC_PVDsYK9g |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/DC_PVDsYK9g| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|website=YouTube|date=29 June 2013 |access-date=31 March 2016}}{{cbignore}} Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg,{{cite magazine|last1=Rosen|first1=Jeffrey|title=Ruth Bader Ginsburg Is an American Hero|url=https://newrepublic.com/article/119578/ruth-bader-ginsburg-interview-retirement-feminists-jazzercise|magazine=The New Republic|date=28 September 2014|access-date=31 March 2016}} Justice Neil Gorsuch{{cite web| title=Gorsuch discusses new book at National Constitution Center|url=https://www.scotusblog.com/media/gorsuch-discusses-new-book-at-national-constitution-center | website=SCOTUS Blog|access-date=31 May 2020}} and Justice Anthony Kennedy.{{cite magazine|last1=Rosen|first1=Jeffrey|title=The Agonizer|url=http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1996/11/11/the-agonizer|magazine=The New Yorker|date=4 November 1996|access-date=31 March 2016}} Justice Ginsburg credited his early support for her Supreme Court candidacy as a factor in her nomination. "...she sent me a generous note, fanning my hopes of becoming a judicial Boswell. (You planted the idea, she wrote, I'll try hard to develop it.)"{{cite news| url=https://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 | work=The New York Times | title=The New Look of Liberalism on the Court | first=Jeffrey | last=Rosen | date=October 5, 1997 | access-date=May 6, 2010}} His essay about Sonia Sotomayor, then a potential Supreme Court nominee,Jeffrey Rosen, "The Case Against Sotomayor: Indictments of Obama's front-runner to replace Souter," The New Republic, May 4, 2009, found at [https://newrepublic.com/article/politics/the-case-against-sotomayor The New Republic website] Accessed June 29, 2015. provoked controversy for its use of anonymous sources in relaying criticisms of Sotomayor's record on the Second Circuit,{{cite web|url=https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104754798|title='Blog Entry' Sparks Furor Over Sotomayor|website=NPR |access-date=8 September 2016}}{{cite web|url=http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/05/07/rosen/|title=Stories written by Glenn Greenwald|date=16 January 2009 |access-date=8 September 2016}} however, other media outlets, including the New York Times, had relied upon similar sources.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/politics/29judge.html | work=The New York Times | title=Sotomayor's Blunt Style Raises Issue of Temperament | first1=Jo | last1=Becker | first2=Adam | last2=Liptak | date=May 29, 2009 | access-date=May 6, 2010}}{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/us/politics/17assess.html | work=The New York Times | title=A Nominee on Display, but Not Her Views | first=Charlie | last=Savage | date=July 17, 2009 | access-date=May 6, 2010}} In an opinion piece published after Kagan's nomination hearings and before the Senate's vote on her confirmation, Rosen encouraged Kagan to look to the late Justice Louis Brandeis as a model "to develop a positive vision of progressive jurisprudence in an age of economic crisis, financial power and technological change."

In 2006, the legal historian David Garrow called him "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator."{{cite web | url=http://www.davidgarrow-com.hb2hosting.net/File/DJG%202006%20LATRosenRev25June.pdf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723142829/http://www.davidgarrow-com.hb2hosting.net/File/DJG%202006%20LATRosenRev25June.pdf | archive-date= July 23, 2011 |url-status=dead| title=Book review: A Modest Proposal | work=Los Angeles Times | date=June 25, 2006 | access-date=February 11, 2019 | author=David J. Garrow| author-link=David J. Garrow }}

Congress chartered the Constitution Center "to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution on a non-partisan basis."{{cite web|title=Welcome to the National Constitution Center|url=http://constitutioncenter.org/about/president-and-ceo|publisher=National Constitution Center|access-date=14 April 2016|archive-date=19 July 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130719055207/http://constitutioncenter.org/about/president-and-ceo/|url-status=dead}} Rosen became president of the National Constitution Center in 2013.{{cite web|last1=Mondics|first1=Chris|title=At Constitution Center, focus on civil discourse reaping rewards|url=http://articles.philly.com/2014-09-08/news/53657507_1_law-professor-ginsburg-national-constitution-center |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150723211504/http://articles.philly.com/2014-09-08/news/53657507_1_law-professor-ginsburg-national-constitution-center |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 23, 2015 |publisher=philly.com|access-date=14 April 2016}} He has articulated the goal of creating an environment in which Americans with different political perspectives may convene on all media platforms for constitutional education and debate.{{citation needed | date=July 2020}}

During Rosen's tenure, with a $5.5 million grant from the Templeton Foundation, the NCC formed the Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board,{{cite web |title=Coalition of Freedom Advisory Board |url=https://constitutioncenter.org/press-room/coalition-of-freedom-advisory-board |website=National Constitution Center |access-date=16 July 2020}} chaired by the heads of the conservative Federalist Society and liberal American Constitution Society, to oversee the creation of the "Interactive Constitution", which the College Board has made a centerpiece of the new AP history and government exams.{{cite web|title=New Online 'Interactive Constitution' for Students and Educators|url=https://www.collegeboard.org/releases/2015/new-online-interactive-constitution-for-students-and-educators |publisher=CollegeBoard.org|access-date=14 April 2016}} The Interactive Constitution project commissions scholars to write about every clause of the Constitution, discussing areas of agreement and disagreement between left and right.{{cite web|title=Interactive Constitution of the United States|url=http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution|publisher=National Constitution Center|access-date=14 April 2016|archive-date=12 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412140325/http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution|url-status=dead}} It also allows users to explore the historic sources of the Bill of Rights and compare America's protected liberties to other constitutional systems throughout the world.{{cite web|title=Constitutional Rights: Origins and Travels |url=http://constitutionalrights.constitutioncenter.org|publisher=National Constitution Center|access-date=14 April 2016}} The Interactive Constitution received nearly five million unique visitors in its first year online.{{cite web|last1=Toppo|first1=Greg|title='Interactive Constitution' looks at Americans' rights from both political sides|url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/04/01/interactive-constitution-looks-americans-rights-both-political-sides/82474030|website=USA Today |access-date=14 April 2016}}

Rosen moderates the weekly podcast "We the People" for the National Constitution Center,{{cite web|last1=Rosen|first1=Jeff|title=We the People|url=https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/we-the-people/id83213431?mt=2|publisher=Apple iTunes Podcasts|access-date=14 April 2016}} convening liberal and conservative scholars to discuss timely constitutional issues as well as constitutional debates. In 2014, the Constitution Center opened the George H. W. Bush Bill of Rights gallery, displaying rare copies of the Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and one of the twelve original copies of the Bill of Rights.{{cite web|title=Constituting Liberty: From the. Declaration to the Bill of Rights|url=http://constitutioncenter.org/experience/exhibitions/feature-exhibitions/the-bill-of-rights-exhibit|publisher=National Constitution Center|access-date=14 April 2016|archive-date=12 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412173208/http://constitutioncenter.org/experience/exhibitions/feature-exhibitions/the-bill-of-rights-exhibit/|url-status=dead}} In 2015, the Center opened a constitution drafting lab, supported by Google,{{cite web|last1=GoogleDocs|title=Putting the "We" in We the People: Constitutions, #madewithGoogleDocs|date=14 December 2015 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OA1z6GbMQc |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211212/1OA1z6GbMQc| archive-date=2021-12-12 |url-status=live|publisher=Youtube}}{{cbignore}} that convenes constitution-drafters and students from around the world for constitution drafting exercises.{{cite web|title=Exploring the World's Constitutions Onsite and Online|url=http://constitutioncenter.org/experience/programs-initiatives/exploring-the-worlds-constitutions-onsite-and-online/|publisher=National Constitution Center|access-date=14 April 2016|archive-date=12 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160412190550/http://constitutioncenter.org/experience/programs-initiatives/exploring-the-worlds-constitutions-onsite-and-online|url-status=dead}}

Rosen, the son of Estelle and Sidney Rosen, is married to Lauren Coyle Rosen, a cultural anthropologist, author, singer-composer, artist, and lawyer, who was a cultural anthropology professor at Princeton University.{{cite news |title=WEDDING/CELEBRATIONS; Lauren Coyle, Jeffrey Rosen |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/22/fashion/weddings/lauren-coyle-jeffrey-rosen.html |work=The New York Times |date=October 22, 2017 |access-date=2017-10-22 }}{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.princeton.edu/laurencoyle/home|title=Lauren Coyle Rosen|website=scholar.princeton.edu|language=en|access-date=2017-11-14}}{{Cite web |title=Lauren Coyle Rosen – Author, Artist, Cultural Anthropologist, Poet, & Lawyer |url=http://laurencoylerosen.com/ |access-date=2024-02-22 |website=laurencoylerosen.com}} Previously, he was married to Christine Rosen (formerly Stolba), a historian. Rosen is the brother of Joanna Rosen, a medical doctor, and the brother-in-law of Neal Katyal, former Acting Solicitor General of the United States.{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/04/opinion/04rosen.html | work=The New York Times | title=Brandeis's Seat, Kagan's Responsibility | first=Jeffrey | last=Rosen | date=July 2, 2010 | access-date=July 3, 2010}}

• [https://www.amazon.com/Pursuit-Happiness-Classical-Inspired-Founders/dp/1668002477 The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America], New York: Simon & Schuster, 2024. ISBN 9781668002476. (New York Times bestseller)
• [https://www.amazon.com/Conversations-RBG-Bader-Ginsburg-Liberty/dp/1250762642/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= Conversations with RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Life, Love, Liberty, and Law], New York: Henry Holt, 2019. {{ISBN|9781250235169}}. (New York Times bestseller)
• [https://www.amazon.com/William-Howard-Taft-Presidents-President/dp/0805069542/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2QLEI9DKE6NQX&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9._5oIuP1-p-MMfBU2RMO0Rw.7RoWxWiH067vQQxuSPcKdtrW51tcQzI2Mae6zQMXS6c&dib_tag=se&keywords=jeffrey+rosen+taft&qid=1708529943&s=books&sprefix=jeffrey+rosen+taft%2Cstripbooks%2C87&sr=1-1 William Howard Taft: The American Presidents Series: The 27th President, 1909-1913], New York: Times Books, 2018. {{ISBN|9780805069549}}
• [https://www.amazon.com/Louis-D-Brandeis-American-Prophet/dp/0300230710/ref=sr_1_1?crid=XMIO35VTJLGV&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.5C_mI_o3T9oCted5ri8YhY_wVRggJjJaZIH7zWaO7qU.CagXulQWRLaSrCBua3lcb6eoapk9vOe4ut-O6yQiP3s&dib_tag=se&keywords=jeffrey+rosen+louis+brandeis&qid=1708529992&s=books&sprefix=jeffrey+rosen+louis+brandeis%2Cstripbooks%2C87&sr=1-1 Louis D. Brandeis: American Prophet], New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. {{ISBN|030015867X}}.
• [https://www.amazon.com/Constitution-3-0-Freedom-Technological-Change/dp/0815722125/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2WUO27LC0YVYC&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.ECeav3MlF0zCNZRcn-q82BFK4q0nt6Puoxgj4Ji9gSc.9FA1HyZ1qP_MJQ6R5f6q8SQjpVw5Df_Hwspe2qpSwik&dib_tag=se&keywords=jeffrey+rosen+constitution+3.0&qid=1708530038&s=books&sprefix=jeffrey+rosen+constitution+3.0%2Cstripbooks%2C78&sr=1-1 Constitution 3.0: Freedom and Technological Change], co-editor, Benjamin Wittes, Washington, D.C.: Brookings Press, 2013. {{ISBN|0815724500}}.
• [https://www.amazon.com/Supreme-Court-Personalities-Rivalries-Defined/dp/0805086854/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.bPDIi6YdtCOjXgKrcUFxPaiY8NI971iTM6EpbvSLprQPqEGPoQ1XZ0lFN9WHczyVBcSwvZ0uhO5BuTtWVPVNmry6dbDGxRUDvjQx5RcQUQs6wK_uUL-Ic7LQnSKovmn3oc6fC_Ow-mcKAwB0EvKliKkmkykbCqkv8x55mYhRakU.Pl8gA-voEuogsZYD_yE9OhDVoEFYVc080X4ljF8u5Kk&qid=1708530082&sr=1-1 The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America], New York: Times Books, 2007. {{ISBN|0-8050-8182-8}}.
• [https://www.amazon.com/Most-Democratic-Branch-Foundation-Sunnylands/dp/B008254A2E/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.w4M4YwjM4BH7CyvZYBSchlGRa_X_aDUwhn9eyq1gJW0.sErMLZNjb0GGwWxfGFjFhXuTTE-6n0xofZiSxPHoIsU&qid=1708530118&sr=1-1 The Most Democratic Branch: How the Courts Serve America], New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. {{ISBN|0-19-517443-7}}.
• {{cite book | title = The Naked Crowd: Reclaiming Security and Freedom in an Anxious Age | year = 2004 | publisher = Random House | location = New York | isbn = 0-375-75985-9 | url = https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780375759857 }}
• [https://www.amazon.com/Unwanted-Gaze-Destruction-Privacy-America/dp/0679765204/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.XQmbXpew6daa3Y6M8LKCvkpXSYZLxz6Uo_CwLgN8Q6A.pNfco-rbgXYSe2WQiuh_SimJzQ2Q72AeGxmrp3bSgqo&qid=1708530162&sr=1-1 The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America], New York: Random House, 2000. {{ISBN|0-679-44546-3}}.

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