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Rosa BrooksGeorgetown University Law CenterAreas of Expertise:Democracy | |
| Rosa Brooks is a professor at Georgetown University Law Center, currently taking a leave of absence to serve as Special Counsel at the Open Society Institute. She also writes a weekly op-ed column for the Los Angeles Times. Brooks taught previously at the University of Virginia School of Law and at Yale Law School, and her past experience also includes service as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, a fellowship at the Kennedy School of Government's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, and consulting work for Human Rights Watch. Brooks has served on the board of Amnesty International USA, as a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Her academic work focuses on terrorism, the law of war, failed states, human rights, and the rule of law; her book, Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (with Jane Stromseth and David Wippman) was published in 2006 by Cambridge University Press. Brooks is a graduate of Harvard, Oxford and Yale Law School | |
