Laura Rosenbury: Difference between revisions

| name = Laura Rosenbury

| image =
| office = 9th President of [[Barnard College]]

| term_start = July 1, 2023

| term_end =

| predecessor = [[Sian Beilock]]

| successor =

| office1 = Dean of the [[University of Florida Levin College of Law]]

| term_start1 = July 1, 2015

| term_end1 = July 1, 2023

| predecessor1 = [[Robert Jerry]]

| successor1 = [[Merritt McAlister]]

| birth_date = {{birth based on age as of date|53|2023|3|9}}

| birth_place = [[South Bend, Indiana]], U.S.

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| death_place =

| education = [[HarvardRadcliffe UniversityCollege]] ([[Bachelor of Arts|BA]],)<br />[[Harvard University]] ([[Juris Doctor|JD]])

'''Laura Ann Rosenbury''' (born 1969/1970)<ref>https://barnard.edu/news/barnard-college-names-distinguished-scholar-laura-rosenbury-ninth-president-elect</ref> is an American legal scholar who is the ninth president of [[Barnard College]]. PreviousPrior to serving at Barnard, Rosenbury was the Dean of the [[University of Florida Levin College of Law]].<ref name="NY Times Announcement">{{cite news |last1=Stack |first1=Liam |title=Barnard College Names Florida Law Dean as New President |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/09/nyregion/barnard-college-laura-rosenbury.html |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=The New York Times |date=9 March 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Laura Rosenbury Named President of Barnard |url=https://magazine.columbia.edu/article/laura-rosenbury-named-president-barnard |work=Columbia Magazine |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=UF Dean Laura A. Rosenbury elected ninth president of Barnard College |url=https://news.ufl.edu/2023/03/laura-rosenbury/ |work=news.ufl.edu |language=en}}</ref>

Rosenbury grew up in [[Elkhart, Indiana]], before moving to [[Rye, New York]]. Rosenbury graduated from [[Radcliffe College]] of [[Harvard University]] with a B.A. in women’s studies in 1992 and earned her J.D. from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1997, where she was an editor of the ''[[Harvard Law Review]]''. She then moved to New York and clerked for Judge [[Carol Bagley Amon]] of the [[U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York]] and Judge [[Dennis Jacobs]] of the [[United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit|U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit]].

Rosenbury taught at [[Fordham Law]] before moving in 2002 to [[Washington University School of Law]]. Rosenbury was the vice dean at the School of Law from 2010 to 2012 and served as a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Stanford Law School, and the University of Chicago Law School.<ref name="NY Times Announcement" />

In 2015, Rosenbury was appointed at the first full-time woman Dean of the UF Levin College of Law.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Schweers |first1=Jeff |title=Rosenbury brings feminist perspective to role of law dean |url=https://www.ocala.com/story/news/local/2015/08/16/rosenbury-brings-feminist-perspective-to-role-of-law-dean/31962658007/ |access-date=5 January 2024 |work=The Star Banner |date=15 August 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Stripling |first1=Jack |title=As U. of Florida Law Dean Calls Out Sexism, Her Rankings-Driven Regime Comes Under Fire |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/as-u-of-florida-law-dean-calls-out-sexism-her-rankings-driven-regime-comes-under-fire/ |access-date=5 January 2024 |date=12 October 2016}}</ref> Rosenbury was elected to the American Law Institute in 2010 and was named a fellow of the American Bar Foundation in 2014. In her tenure as Dean of the UF Levin College of Law, Rosenbury played a role in efforts by Florida Governor [[Ron DeSantis]] to block professors at the university from testifying in or joining onto amicus briefs in cases against the state.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Inside the Academic-Freedom Crisis that Roiled Florida's Flagship |url=https://www.chronicle.com/article/inside-the-academic-freedom-crisis-that-roiled-floridas-flagship}}</ref> These efforts were struck down by order of a federal judge.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Case No.: 1:21cv184-MW/GRJ|url=https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-flnd-1_21-cv-00184/pdf/USCOURTS-flnd-1_21-cv-00184-0.pdf}}</ref> In addition, faculty criticized her tenure as dean, with more than half "claiming that the school [was] not a fair work environment."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Patrice |first=Joe |date=2020-02-21 |title=Law School Dean 'Does Not Lead; She Bullies And Berates' Say Faculty Commenters - Above the Law |url=https://abovethelaw.com/2020/02/law-school-dean-does-not-lead-she-bullies-and-berates-say-faculty-commenters/ |access-date=2024-04-21 |language=en-US}}</ref>

She began her tenure as President of Barnard College on June 12, 2023,<ref>{{Cite web |title=President Laura Rosenbury {{!}} Barnard College |url=https://barnard.edu/president-laura-rosenbury |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=barnard.edu}}</ref> and was officially inaugurated at a ceremony on February 2, 2024 at [[Riverside Church]].<ref name="Chakravarthy">{{Cite web |last=Chakravarthy |first=Apurva |title=Rosenbury inaugurated as ninth Barnard president against backdrop of protesters |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/02/02/rosenbury-inaugurated-as-ninth-barnard-president-against-backdrop-of-protesters/ |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref> According to the [[Columbia Daily Spectator|Columbia Spectator]], "theThe event drew over a dozen protesters and a sparse crowd following calls by pro-Palestinian student groups for a [[boycott]] of the ceremony."<ref name="Chakravarthy"/><ref>{{Cite web |last=Splaver |first=Gabriella Gregor |title=In Focus: Rosenbury gets inaugurated, protests ensue |url=https://www.columbiaspectator.com/photo-essays/2024/02/05/in-focus-rosenbury-gets-inaugurated-protests-ensue/ |access-date=2024-02-05 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |last=Otterman |first=Sharon |last2=Bensimon |first2=Olivia |date=2024-02-06 |title=Columbia Limited Campus Protests, So Students Took to the Streets |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/06/nyregion/columbia-campus-protests-streets-police.html |access-date=2024-03-13 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>