Rosa Brooks
Professor of Law
A.B., Harvard; M.St., Oxford; J.D., Yale
Areas of Expertise:
Human Rights Law, International Law
Rosa Brooks is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches courses on international law, national security, constitutional law, and other subjects....
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Rosa Brooks is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches courses on international law, national security, constitutional law, and other subjects. She also writes a weekly column for Foreign Policy, and serves as a Schwartz Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.
Brooks returned in July 2011 from a two year public service leave of absence, during which she served as Counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michele Flournoy. During her time at the Defense Department, Brooks also founded the Office for Rule of Law and International Humanitarian Policy, and also led a major overhaul of the Defense Department's strategic communication and information operations effforts. In July 2011, she received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service.
From 2005-2009, Brooks was a weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times, and served as faculty director of GULC's Human Rights Institute. In 2006-2007, Brooks served as as Special Counsel to the President at the Open Society Institute in New York. From 2001-2006, she was an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, where she taught human rights law, constitutional law, and criminal law.
Brooks has also served as a senior advisor at the US Department of State, a consultant for Human Rights Watch, a fellow at the Carr Center at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a board member of Amnesty International USA, a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a lecturer at Yale Law School, a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Fragile States, the board of the National Security Network and the Steering Committee of the White Oak Foreign Policy Leaders Project.
In addition to her popular writing, Brooks has written numerous scholarly articles on international law, failed states, post-conflict reconstruction and the rule of law, human rights, terrorism and the law of war.
Her book, "Can Might Make Rights? The Rule of Law After Military Interventions," (with Jane Stromseth and David Wippman) was published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press. Her government and NGO work has involved field research in Iraq, Afghanistan, Indonesia, Israel, Palestine, Kosovo, China, Russia, Ghana, Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, and Sierra Leone, among other places.
Brooks received her A.B. from Harvard in 1991 (history and literature), followed by a master's degree from Oxford in 1993 (social anthropology) and a law degree from Yale in 1996.
Recent Scholarship
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Rosa Brooks, Civilians and Armed Conflict, in The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights (Jared Genser & Bruno Ugarte eds., forthcoming).
- Rosa Brooks, Lessons from Social Psychology for Complex Operations, in New Directions in Complex Operations (National Defense University & Center for Naval Analysis forthcoming). [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, National Security in the Information Age, in Economics and Security: Challenges and Opportunities in a Resources Constrained World (Newport, R.I.: Naval War College forthcoming). [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, What Gets Lost: Policy-Making and the Civilian-Military Gap, in International Justice Legends: Essays in Honor of Aryeh Neier (forthcoming).
- Rosa Brooks, Reflections on Kony 2012, Harv. Hum. Rts. J. (forthcoming). [Gtown Law]
All Scholarship 2000 - Present
Forthcoming Works and Works in Progress
- Rosa Brooks, Civilians and Armed Conflict, in The UN Security Council in the Age of Human Rights (Jared Genser & Bruno Ugarte eds., forthcoming).
- Rosa Brooks, Lessons from Social Psychology for Complex Operations, in New Directions in Complex Operations (National Defense University & Center for Naval Analysis forthcoming). [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, National Security in the Information Age, in Economics and Security: Challenges and Opportunities in a Resources Constrained World (Newport, R.I.: Naval War College forthcoming). [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, What Gets Lost: Policy-Making and the Civilian-Military Gap, in International Justice Legends: Essays in Honor of Aryeh Neier (forthcoming).
- Rosa Brooks, What We Talk About When We Talk About Drones, in Drones, Remote Targeting and the Promise of Law (Peter Bergen & Daniel Rothenberg, eds., New York: Cambridge University Press forthcoming).
- Rosa Brooks, Reflections on Kony 2012, Harv. Hum. Rts. J. (forthcoming). [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, Lessons for International Law from the Arab Spring, Am. U. Int'l L. Rev. (forthcoming). [Gtown Law]
Books
- Rosa Brooks, Jane E. Stromseth & David Wippman, Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press 2006). [BOOK]
Contributions to Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals
- Rosa Brooks, Be Careful What You Wish For: Changing Doctrines, Changing Technologies, and the Lower Cost of War, 106 Am. Soc'y Int'l L. Proc. 31-35 (2012). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, Strange Bedfellows: The Convergence of Sovereignty-Limiting Doctrines in Counterterrorist and Human Rights Discourses, 13 Geo. J. Int'l Aff. 125-133 (2012). [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, We The People's Executive, 115 Yale L.J. (The Pocket Part) 88-91 (2006). [L] [W] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Rosa Brooks, What the Internet Age Means for Female Scholars, 116 Yale L.J. (The Pocket Part) 46-52 (2006). [L] [W] [Gtown Law] [WWW]
- Rosa Brooks, Failed States, or the State as Failure?, 72 U. Chi. L. Rev. 1159-1196 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, Protecting Rights in the Age of Terrorism: Challenges and Opportunities, 36 Geo. J. Intl. L. 669-682 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, The Politics of the Geneva Conventions: Avoiding Formalist Traps, 46 Va. J. Intl. L. 197-207 (2005). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, Ticking Bombs & Catastrophes, 8 Green Bag 2d 311-320 (2005) (reviewing Torture: A Collection (Sanford Levinson ed., 2004)). [L] [W]
- Rosa Brooks, War Everywhere: Rights, National Security Law, and the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Terror, 153 U. Pa. L. Rev. 675-761 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W] [SSRN] [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks & Anne-Marie Slaughter, A Just World Under Law, 98 Am. Soc'y Intl. L. Proc. 126-129 (2004). [HEIN] [W]
- Rosa Brooks, Scott Carlson & Mariam Nawabi, Panel 1: Establishing the Rule of Law, 33 Ga. J. Intl. & Comp. L. 119-141 (2004). [HEIN] [L] [W]
- Rosa Brooks, Law in the Heart of Darkness: Atrocity & Duress, 43 Va. J. Intl. L. 861-888 (2003). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, The New Imperialism: Violence, Norms, and the "Rule of Law", 101 Mich. L. Rev. 2275-2340 (2003). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
- Rosa Brooks, Feminism and International Law: An Opportunity for Transformation, 14 Yale J.L. & Feminism 345-361 (2002). [HEIN] [L] [W] [Gtown Law]
Congressional Testimony
- Evolution of Strategic Communication and Information Operations Since 9/11: Hearing Before the Subcomm. on Emerging Threats & Capabilities of the H. Comm. on Armed Servs., 112th Cong., July 12, 2011 (Statement of Rosa Brooks) (CIS-No.: 2011-H201-154). [WWW]
Selected Contributions to Other Publications
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Address:
600 New Jersey Avenue N.W.
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Office Location:
McDonough 401
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Assistant:
Betsy Kuhn
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Phone:
202-662-9928
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Office Hours:
<p>Monday 2:30-3:30</p><p><br /> </p>
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