Nicholas Quinn Rosenkranz graduated from Yale College and Yale Law School. After law school, he clerked for Judge Frank H. Easterbrook on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (1999-2000) and for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy at the U.S. Supreme Court (October Term 2001). He then served as an Attorney-Advisor at the Office of Legal Counsel in the U.S. Department of Justice (November 2002 - July 2004).
Rosenkranz began his scholarly career by publishing his first two articles—Federal Rules of Statutory Interpretation and Executing the Treaty Power—in the Harvard Law Review. Since then, he has continued to research and write about constitutional law, foreign affairs law, international law, federal jurisdiction, and statutory interpretation. Most recently, he has examined the use of foreign law in interpreting the U.S. Constitution (Condorcet and the Constitution, Stanford Law Review) and proposed a constitutional amendment forbidding such use (An American Amendment, Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy). He frequently testifies before Congress as a constitutional expert--most recently before the Senate Judiciary Committee, regarding the nomination of Justice Sotomayor. Currently, he is developing a new theory of judicial review, which is forthcoming in the Stanford Law Review.
Rosenkranz is a member of the New York Bar and the U.S. Supreme Court Bar, an Associate Fellow of Pierson College at Yale University, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on the national Board of Visitors of the Federalist Society, and as the faculty advisor to the Georgetown Chapter.
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