Rosa Brooks holds the Scott K. Ginsburg Chair in Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center, where she has been a tenured professor since 2006. She also serves as Georgetown Law’s Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes and as co-director of the Center on Innovations in Public Safety. Brooks teaches Constitutional Law, International Law, National Security Law, and Criminal Law and Procedure. She is an Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point’s Modern War Institute, an ASU Future of War Senior Fellow at New America, and a co-founder of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security (LCWINS). From 2009–2011, she served as Counselor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, for which she received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service. She has also served as Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor. Brooks earned her B.A. in History and Literature from Harvard, an M.Phil. in Social Anthropology from Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.
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Oral history interview with Rosa Brooks, 2025 May, https://n2t.net/ark:/54723/h3k06xd0h