Rosa Brooks

Rosa Brooks is a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center (on leave 06/07) and a weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times. 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. Brooks' previous work has 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. Brooks has degrees from Harvard University, Oxford University, and Yale Law School.

Born in 1970, Brooks is the daughter of author and activist Barbara Ehrenreich (Nickel and Dimed) and is married to the literary critic Peter Brooks. She is the author of A Garden of Paper Flowers (Picador, 1994) and Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions[1] (with co-authors Jane Stromseth and David Wippman; forthcoming, Cambridge University Press, 2006).