Rosenberg Honored for Teaching
Professor Gerald Rosenberg, Lecturer in Law and Associate Professor of Political Science, has been honored with the Teaching and Mentoring Award from the Law and Courts Section of the American Political Science Association (APSA). The section, with more than 600 members, is comprised of political scientists who teach about law and courts, and the award recognizes innovative teaching and instructional methods and materials.
Rosenberg, who spent this academic year as Visiting Fellow at the National Law School of India University in Bangalore, studies American politics, public law, and civil rights and liberties. His main focus is on the use of courts to further the rights and interests of the disadvantaged. Next year at the Law School, he will teach U.S. Courts as Political Institutions and Constitutional Law III. At the undergraduate level he will teach Introduction to U.S. Constitutional Law and Civil Rights/Civil Liberties.
Previously, Rosenberg has taught at Yale University, Northwestern University School of Law, the Law School of Xiamen University in China, and the Australian National University. He earned his PhD in political science at Yale, his JD from the University of Michigan, a master’s degree in politics and philosophy from Oxford University, and a BA from Dartmouth College.
This is not his Rosenberg’s first award from the APSA; he earned the 2003 Wadsworth Award, for his 1991 book The Hollow Hope: Can Courts Bring About Social Change? The award honors publications 10 years or older that have made a lasting contribution to the field.
The Hollow Hope also earned the 1993 Gordon J. Laing Prize from the University of Chicago Press, for a faculty book that brings the greatest distinction to the press, and the 1992 D. Francis Bustin Prize from the Law School. Rosenberg also has been honored with the University’s Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching.