Laura Rosenbury
Professor of Law
Office: Anheuser-Busch Hall, Room 464
Phone: (314) 935-5935
E-mail: larosenb@wulaw.wustl.edu
Assistant: Jan Houf - (314) 935-6468
- Curriculum Vitae [view]
(For the most recent list of publications and activities, please see the current CV.) - Publications [view]
Courses Taught
Children and the Law
Employment Discrimination
Family Law
Feminist Legal Theory
Property
Trusts and Estates
Education
A.B. Harvard-Radcliffe College
J.D. Harvard Law School
Profile
Professor Rosenbury’s research and teaching focuses on the law of everyday life: work, family, sex and death. She is particularly interested in how the law may influence seemingly private relationships and conduct. Her article “Between Home and School,” 155 U. Pa. L. Rev. 833 (2007), examines these issues in the context of childrearing. That article was selected for presentation at the 2006 Stanford/Yale Junior Faculty Forum as the best paper in the family law category. " Friends with Benefits?," 106 Mich. L. Rev. 189 (2007), explores the law's role in maintaining the divide between friends and family, asking why the law fails to recognize relationship between adults that do not center around sexual activity. Her forthcoming article, "Sex In and Out of Intimacy, " co-authored with Jennifer Rothman, conversely analyzes the law's treatment of sex outside of marriage - like relationships.
Professor Rosenbury joined the law school in the fall of 2002. In 2006 she was named the Professor of the Year. Before joining the faculty, she served as an associate in the litigation department at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and as an adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law.
She graduated from Harvard-Radcliffe College with an A.B. in Women’s Studies and received her J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she was primary editor of the law review. She clerked for Judge Carol Bagley Amon, United States District Court, Eastern District of New York, from 1997-1998, and for Judge Dennis Jacobs, United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit, from 1999-2000.
In addition to her research and teaching interests, Professor Rosenbury has practiced in the areas of criminal, antitrust, securities, and consumer law. She serves on the board of Children's Healthcare Is a Legal Duty (CHILD, Inc.), a national nonprofit organization that seeks to protect children from abusive religious and cultural practices, especially religion-based medical neglect. She is also a board member of the AALS Section on Trusts and Estates.