Laura Rosenbury

2012-2013 Academic Year

Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law

Research Interests

• Feminist Legal Theory
• Children and Law
• Family Law
• Trusts and Estates
• Employment Discrimination

Appointments

• Professor of Law, Washington University Law School (St. Louis)
• Sullivan & Cromwell Visiting Professor of Law, 2012

Additional Information

Visiting Professor Rosenbury will teach the course Feminist Legal Theory, and the course Children and the Law in the Fall 2012 term. She will also teach a section of Property in the Spring 2013 term.

Biographical Statement

Professor Rosenbury studies the law of everyday life: work, family, sex, and death. She is particularly interested in how law participates in the construction of gender, recently joining the fourth edition of the Feminist Jurisprudence casebook. She has also written extensively on how law influences private relationships and conduct between adults, between adults and children, and between children. Professor Rosenbury joined the faculty of Washington University Law School (St. Louis) in 2002, receiving the David M. Becker Professor of the Year Award in 2006 and serving as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development from 2010-12. Before joining the faculty, she practiced law at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City, working in its litigation department, and clerked for the Hon. Carol Bagley Amon, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and the Hon. Dennis Jacobs, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In addition to her scholarship and teaching, Professor Rosenbury is a board member of Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.) as well as the chair of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Section on Trusts and Estates. She was elected to the American Law Institute in December, 2010.

Representative Publications

• Rosenbury, Laura & Jennifer Rothman. "Sex In and Out of Intimacy," 59 Emory Law Journal 809 (2010).
  
• Rosenbury, Laura. "Friends with Benefits?" 106 Michigan Law Review 189 (2007).
  
• Rosenbury, Laura. "Between Home and School," 155 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 833 (2007).