Rosa Brooks

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Rosa Brooks
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Brooks in 2017
Born1970 (age 53–54)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Education Harvard University (BA)
Christ Church, Oxford (MSt)
Yale University (JD)
Political party Democratic
Parents
Relatives Ben Ehrenreich (brother)

Rosa Brooks is an American law professor, journalist, author and commentator on foreign policy, U.S. politics and criminal justice. She is the Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy at Georgetown University Law Center. Brooks is also an adjunct scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute and a senior fellow at the New America Foundation. From April 2009 to July 2011, Brooks was a counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy Michèle Flournoy.

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Brooks is a commentator on politics and foreign policy. She served as a columnist and contributing editor for Foreign Policy and as a weekly columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Brooks authored the 2016 book How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything [1] and the 2021 book Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City, which is based on her five years as a reserve police officer in Washington, D.C.

At Georgetown Law, Brooks founded the Center for Innovations in Community Safety, formerly the Innovative Policing Program, which in 2017 launched the Police for Tomorrow Fellowship Program with Washington, D.C.'s Metropolitan Police Department. She founded the Leadership Council for Women in National Security and the Transition Integrity Project. In 2021, [2] 2022 [3] and 2023, [4] Washingtonian magazine listed Brooks as one of Washington's "most influential people."

Early life and education

Rosa Brooks is the daughter of author Barbara Ehrenreich (née Alexander) and psychologist John Ehrenreich. Her parents separated when she was young and she also grew up with her stepparents, Gary Stevenson and Sharon McQuaide. She was named after Rosa Parks. [5] Her brother is journalist and author Ben Ehrenreich. Brooks was born in a public clinic in New York City. She attended elementary school in Syosset and briefly attended Syosset High School in Syosset, New York, but left early after two years to attend Harvard. In 1991, she earned a Bachelor of Arts (history and literature) from Harvard University. [6] [7]

While an undergraduate, Brooks lived in Lowell House and served as president of the Phillips Brooks House Association, Harvard's undergraduate public service organization. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa and was a Marshall Scholar at Christ Church, Oxford. [6] In 1993, Brooks received a Master of Studies from Oxford University in Social anthropology. [7] In 1996, she received a J.D. from Yale Law School. [6] [7]

Career

Brooks was a lecturer at Yale Law School, [7] where she was the director of Yale Law School's human rights program. She was a fellow at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, a board member of Amnesty International USA and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. [7] Brooks served on the board of the Open Society Foundation's US Programs Fund and as a senior advisor at the US Department of State's Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. [7] Brooks was also a consultant for the Open Society Institute and for Human Rights Watch. [7]

Brooks was a member of the Policy Committee of the National Security Network. [7] From 2001 to 2006, she was an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. [7] Brooks has been a columnist for the Los Angeles Times (June 2005 to April 9, 2009) [8] [9] and, since 2007, a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. [7]

From April 2009 to July 2011, she was on public service leave from Georgetown to serve as counselor to Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, Michele Flournoy. She received the Secretary of Defense Medal for Outstanding Public Service for her work at the Defense Department. [10]

Brooks currently serves on the board of the Harper's Magazine Foundation, the Advisory Committee of National Security Action, the Steering Committee of the Leadership Council for Women in National Security and the board of the American Bar Association's Rule of Law Initiative. [10]

From 2016 to 2020, she was also a reserve police officer with the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, and she received the Chief of Police Special Award in 2019. [11] She has also been active in Democratic presidential campaigns. She served most recently as a volunteer advisor on defense policy to the Biden campaign, and she is frequently consulted as an expert advisor on issues of national security, criminal justice, democracy and rule of law.[ citation needed ] In July 2024, after Biden's weak debate performance, she promoted a "blitz primary" alternative to fielding Joe Biden as the Democratic presidential candidate. [12]

Writings

Brooks' scholarly work has focused mostly on national security, terrorism and rule of law issues, international law, human rights, law of war, failed states, and, more recently, criminal justice and policing. Along with Jane Stromseth and David Wippman, Brooks coauthored Can Might Make Rights? Building the Rule of Law After Military Interventions (2006). [13] Brooks is also the author of numerous scholarly articles published in law reviews. [14] [15] [16]

Brooks authored the 2016 book How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything. [17] It was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and was selected by Military Times as one of the ten best books of the year. The book was also shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize and the Arthur Ross Book Award. [18]

In 2021, she published Tangled Up in Blue: Policing the American City, which is about her experience as a reserve police officer in Washington, D.C. [19] Tangled Up in Blue was selected by the Washington Post as one of the best non-fiction books of 2021.

Political Commentary

In addition to serving as a weekly opinion columnist for the Los Angeles Times and Foreign Policy , Brooks was a founder of Foreign Policy's weekly podcast, The E.R., [20] and is now a member of the Deep State Radio podcast team. She has been a frequent guest and panelist on MSNBC, Fox, CNN and NPR. [21] [22] Brooks has contributed numerous op-eds and book reviews to the Washington Post, The New York Times, The Atlantic , The Wall Street Journal and numerous other publications. [23]

Personal life

Brooks has two children. [24] Brooks was previously married to the Yale literary critic Peter Brooks, [24] [25] and subsequently married LTC Joseph Mouer, [26] a now-retired Army Special Forces officer.

Works

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References

  1. ↑ Brooks, Rosa (July 25, 2017). How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything. Simon and Schuster. ISBN   978-1-4767-7787-0.
  2. ↑ "Washington's Most Influential People". Washingtonian . February 25, 2021. Archived from the original on March 31, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People". Washingtonian . May 3, 2022. Archived from the original on July 14, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People of 2023". Washingtonian . April 27, 2023. Archived from the original on July 5, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  5. ↑ Barbara Ehrenreich
  6. 1 2 3 "Profile Rosa Brooks". law.georgetown.edu.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Brooks, Rosa Ehrenreich Brooks (2006). "About Rosa Brooks". Rosa Brooks. Archived from the original on February 21, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2021. Rosa Brooks is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times and a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. (She is currently on leave from Georgetown to serve as Special Counsel at the Open Society Institute in New York).
  8. ↑ Brooks, Rosa (June 22, 2011). "Rosa Brooks". Los Angeles Times . Archived from the original on June 22, 2011. Retrieved April 17, 2021. This will be my last column for the L.A. Times. After four years, I'll soon be starting a stint at the Pentagon as an advisor to the undersecretary of Defense for policy. (Rosa Brooks is a professor at the Georgetown University Law Center. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, Brooks taught at the University of Virginia and at Yale. She has also served as a senior advisor at the U.S. Department of State, a consultant for Human Rights Watch, a board member of Amnesty International USA, a fellow of the Kennedy School of Government's Carr Center, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law. Her government and NGO work has involved extensive travel and field research in countries ranging from Iraq and Kosovo to Indonesia and Sierra Leone.)
  9. ↑ Brooks, Rosa. "Los Angeles Times Columns". Rosa Brooks. Archived from the original on May 16, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2021.
  10. 1 2 "Rosa Brooks". Georgetown Law. Archived from the original on January 27, 2021. Retrieved April 17, 2021. Associate Dean for Centers and Institutes; The Scott K. Ginsburg Professor of Law and Policy, Rosa Brooks teaches courses on international law, national security, constitutional law and criminal justice. She joined the Law Center faculty in 2007, after serving as an associate professor at the University of Virginia School of Law. From 2016-2018, Brooks served at the Law Center's Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. Brooks is also an Adjunct Senior Scholar at West Point's Modern War Institute and a Senior Fellow at New America.
  11. 1 2 "Tangled Up in Blue - Penguin Random House" . Retrieved February 18, 2021.
  12. ↑ Picciotto, Rebecca (July 7, 2024). "Democratic power players are circulating a proposal for Biden to exit, launch 'blitz primary'". CNBC . Archived from the original on July 9, 2024. Retrieved July 9, 2024.
  13. 1 2 "Can Might Make Rights?". Cambridge University Press. Retrieved August 5, 2016.
  14. ↑ Brooks, Rosa Ehrenreich (2006). "We the People's Executive". Rosa Brooks. Archived from the original on February 21, 2007. Retrieved April 17, 2021. 115 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 88
  15. ↑ "Rosa Brooks - The Politics of the Geneva Conventions". Archived from the original on February 20, 2007.
  16. ↑ "Rosa Brooks - War Everywhere". Archived from the original on February 21, 2007.
  17. ↑ Evans, Harold (August 5, 2016). "Rosa Brooks Examines War's Expanding Boundaries". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved December 7, 2020.
  18. ↑ "Rosa Brooks | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved May 13, 2021.
  19. ↑ "An Arresting 'Tangled Up in Blue' | Inside Higher Ed". www.insidehighered.com. Retrieved June 30, 2021.
  20. ↑ "FP's The Editor's Roundtable (The E.R.)". Foreign Policy. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  21. ↑ "Rosa Brooks". Bloggingheads.tv. Retrieved April 18, 2016.
  22. ↑ "News Hounds: Liberal Lady Lawyer Runs Rings Around Bill O'Reilly on Subject of GITMO Detainees". newshounds.us.
  23. ↑ Brooks, Rosa (April 24, 2020). "Police officers nationwide need to consider going hands-off during this crisis". Washington Post.
  24. 1 2 Sherman, Scott. "Class Warrior". Scott Sherman. Retrieved April 17, 2021. Ehrenreich moved to Charlottesville in 2001 to be near her thirty-two-year-old daughter, Rosa, a law professor at the University of Virginia, and her granddaughter, Anna, now two. (She also has a son, Ben, who writes for L.A. Weekly.) When Ehrenreich is in town, she will often, in the late afternoon, get in her Honda Civic — which bears a "Proud to Be An American Against War" bumper sticker — and drive to Rosa's farmhouse on the outskirts of Charlottesville, a place Rosa shares with her husband, the Yale literary critic Peter Brooks, who is currently teaching at UVA.
  25. ↑ "Brooks, Peter 1938–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 17, 2021. Peter Preston Brooks
  26. ↑ Helaine Olen (August 10, 2012). "The Smaller, Cheaper, Just-for-Us Wedding". The New York Times. Retrieved April 13, 2016.
  27. ↑ Senior, Jennifer (August 1, 2016). "Review: 'How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything'". The New York Times. ISSN   0362-4331 . Retrieved August 5, 2016. At its finest, "How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything" is a dynamic work of reportage, punctuated by savory details like this one. But Ms. Brooks has a larger ambition: She wants to explore exactly what happens to a society when the customary distinctions between war and peace melt away.
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