Rosa Brooks

Infobox journalist
name = Rosa Brooks


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birth_date = 1970
birth_place = New York, NY
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education = A.B. Harvard, M.St. Oxford, J.D. Yale
occupation = Journalist, author, law professor
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gender = female
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children = Two daughters
relatives = Barbara Ehrenreich
ethnic = Caucasian - U.S. flagicon|U.S.
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credits = Op-ed columnist for the "Los Angeles Times"; law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center; author of " [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521678013 Can Might Make Rights?] ", among other works; frequent guest on BloggingHeads.tv
agent = Kristine Dahl, ICM
URL = http://www.rosabrooks.com

Rosa Brooks is an op-ed columnist for the "Los Angeles Times" and a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Brooks' work has appeared in publications ranging from Harper's Magazine to the "Washington Post", and in 2005 she began a weekly column for the Los Angeles Times. Most of her columns focus on foreign policy, human rights, and national security issues. She is known for her edgy, satirical style. She is also a frequent panelist on MSNBC's "Tucker," a commentator on Bloggingheads.tv [http://www.bloggingheads.tv] , and a blogger for Slate magazine's XX Factor [http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/xxfactor/] . Her scholarly work focuses on international law, human rights, law of war, state failure, terrorism and rule of law issues.

Brooks' previous work included five years as an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law, and stints at the U.S. Department of State, Human Rights Watch and the Open Society Institute. She has served as a board member of Amnesty International USA, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. She is active in political causes and served as a foreign policy advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004, and she is a board member of the National Security Network. Brooks has degrees from Harvard University, Oxford University (where she was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School.

The daughter of best-selling author Barbara Ehrenreich ("Nickel and Dimed") and psychologist John Ehrenreich, Brooks currently lives in Virginia.

Books

* [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=0521678013 Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions] " [http://www.cambridge.org/us/catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052186089X] (with co-authors Jane Stromseth and David Wippman Cambridge University Press, 2006).
* A Garden of Paper Flowers (Picador, 1994) (under the name Rosa Ehrenreich; later articles are credited to Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks)

Other Notable Publications

* "Failed States, or the State as Failure?", 72 U. Chicago L. Rev. 1159 (2005)
* "War Everywhere: Rights, National Security Law, and the Law of Armed Conflict in the Age of Terror," 153 U. Pennsylvania L. Rev. 675 (2004).
* "The New Imperialism: Violence, Norms & Rule of Law," 101 Mich. L. Rev. 2275 (2003).

External links

* [http://www.latimes.com/news/columnists/la-columnist-rbrooks,1,2727719.columnist?coll=la-news-columns/ Rosa Brooks: LA Times page]
* [http://www.rosabrooks.com/ Rosa Brooks: website]
* [http://bloggingheads.tv/search/?participant1=Brooks,%20Rosa Video interviews and conversations with Brooks] at Bloggingheads.tv