Author Bio
• Birth—1960
• Where—New York, New York, USA
• Education—B.A. University of Florida; M.P.A. Columbia
University; J.D. University of Miami
• Awards—Edward Lewis Wallant Award
• Currently—teaches at Fordham University in New York, NY
Rosenbaum is a novelist, essayist, law professor, and author of three novels—The Golems of Gotham (2002, a San Francisco Chronicle Top 100 Book), Second Hand Smoke (1999, a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award), and Elijah Visible (1996, which received the Edward Lewis Wallant Award for the best book of Jewish-American fiction).
His articles, reviews, and essays appear frequently in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and Huffington Post, among other national publications. He appears frequently at the 92nd Street Y where he moderates an annual series of discussions on Jewish culture and politics.
He is the John Whelan Distinguished Lecturer in Law at Fordham Law School, where he teaches human rights, legal humanities, and law and literature, and where he directs the Forum on Law, Culture & Society. He is the author of The Myth of Moral Justice: Why Our Legal System Fails to Do What’s Right (2004), which was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle as one of the Best Books of 2004. His most recent book is an anthology entitled, Law Lit, From Atticus Finch to "The Practice": A Collection of Great Writing About the Law (2007). (From Wikipedia.)