Rosa Brooks

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Rosa Brooks is a weekly op-ed columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a law professor at the Georgetown University Law Center (on leave 07-08 to serve as Special Counsel at the Open Society Institute). 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.

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 progressive political causes and served as a foreign policy advisor to the Kerry-Edwards campaign in 2004, and she is a member of the National Security Network. Brooks has degrees from Harvard University, Oxford University (where she was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School.

Born in 1970 to Barbara Ehrenreich, Brooks lives in New York with her husband and children.

[edit] Books

A Garden of Paper Flowers (Picador, 1994) (under the name Rosa Ehrenreich; a later book is credited to Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks)
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).