Professor of Law; Faculty Director, Human Rights Institute
A.B., Harvard University; M.St., Oxford; J.D., Yale

Office Location: McDonough Across from Room 401

Personal website: www.rosabrooks.com

Assistant: Ralph Freeman

Phone: 9421

Office Hours: Thursday 3:30-5

Biography

Rosa Brooks is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, where she teaches courses on international law, failed states, atrocity law, and other subjects. She also serves as Director of the Law Center's Human Rights Institute, and she spent four years as a weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times.

In 2006-2007, Brooks took a leave of absence from Georgetown to serve 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, and a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on fragile States. In 2004 she served as director or the Kerry-Edwards campaign's task force on democracy, development & human rights. She currently serves on the board of the National Security Network and on 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, 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.