The Source- Reporters' Guide to Legal Experts - 2008-2009 - (Page 20) Kenneth Rosen Associate Professor of Law Email: krosen@law.ua.edu Phone: 205-348-1117 Expertise: Corporate Governance, International Business Transactions, Federal Securities Law Professor Rosen received his B.S. from Cornell University in 1991 as a Merill Presidential Scholar; his J.D. from Yale Law School in 1994; and his LL.M., with honors, from the London School of Economics in 1997. He served as senior editor of the Yale Law Journal and as editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. Upon graduation from Yale, he clerked for the Honorable Edward E. Carnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. From 1995 - 1996, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. Professor Rosen worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Division of Market Regulation from 1998 - 2002, where he achieved the rank of special counsel. During his time at the commission, he provided counsel on matters before the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets, aided the restoration of financial markets following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and assisted with the drafting of the Commodity Futures Modernization Act of 2000. He has also worked on matters including foreign market access, financial derivatives, market structure, and regulation of over-the-counter markets and exchanges. While at the SEC, Professor Rosen received the Commission’s “Law and Policy Award” and the “Manuel F. Cohen Award” from the Securities Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association. Before arriving at the University of Alabama, he served as fellow for the Fordham University School of Law’s Center for Corporate Securities and Financial Law in New York City. U.S. News & World Report ranked UA Law as a “Top 11 Public Law School” Austin Sarat Justice Hugo L. Black Visiting Senior Faculty Scholar Expertise: Law & Politics, E-mail: asarat@law.ua.edu Jurisprudence, Social Thought Phone: 205-348-0243 Professor Sarat earned his B.A. from Providence College, M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, and J.D. from Yale Law School. He is the William Nelson Cromwell Professor of Jurisprudence and Political Science at Amherst College, but currently teaches criminal law at the University of Alabama School of Law. Professor Sarat is the driving force behind the Law School’s “Law, Knowledge, & Imagination” symposia, a three-year series designed to challenge and reassess the conventional wisdom associated with a broad range of topics including law, history, and scientific analysis. Professor Sarat is the author or editor of more than 50 books, including When the State Kills: Capital Punishment in Law, Politics, and Culture; Something to Believe in: Politics, Professionalism, and Cause Lawyers (with Stuart Scheingold); Cultural Analysis, Cultural Studies, and the Law: Moving Beyond Legal Realism (with Jonathan Simon); Looking Back at Law’s Century (with Robert Kagan and Bryant Garth); Law, Violence, and the Possibility of Justice; Pain, Death, and the Law; The Blackwell Companion to Law and Society; and Mercy on Trial: What It Means to Stop an Execution. Professor Sarat is currently writing a new book entitled Hollywood’s Law: What Movies Do for Democracy. 20
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