Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen is a professor of law at George Washington University, the legal affairs editor of the New Republic, and a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he heads the Brookings Project on Technology and the Constitution.  His most recent book is The Supreme Court: The Personalities and Rivalries that Defined America, the bestselling companion book to the PBS series on the Supreme Court. He is also the author of The Most Democratic Branch, The Naked Crowd, and The Unwanted Gaze, which the New York Times called “the definitive text in privacy perils in the digital age.”

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, the 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 L.A. Times called him “the nation’s most widely read and influential legal commentator.” He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Christine Rosen and two sons.


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

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 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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