Gerald Rosenberg

Gerald Rosenberg joined the faculty at the University of Chicago in 1985. Mr. Rosenberg's principal research interests are in bringing the techniques and knowledge of the social sciences to the study of courts. In particular, viewing courts as political institutions broadly defined, he has focused on the use of the courts by those promoting civil rights, abortion reform, and women's rights (The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change?, 1991). From the same perspective, other work has examined the First Amendment as a protector of fundamental democratic freedoms, the notion of judicial independence, the political efficacy of rights claim, and the use of the U.S. Supreme Court decisions by non-U.S. constitutional courts.

Mr. Rosenberg spent the 1995-96 academic year as a visiting fellow in the Law Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. During the 2000-2001 academic year, he taught at Northwestern University Law School as the Jack N. Pritzker Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law. He spent the 2003-03 academic year at the Law School of Xiamen University in China as a Fulbright Professor.