Jeffrey Rosen

Jeffrey Rosen (born February 13, 1964) is an American academic and commentator on legal affairs. Legal historian David Garrow has called him "the nation's most widely read and influential legal commentator". Since 2013, he has served as the President and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia.

Rosen is the son of Sidney and Estelle Rosen. He was married to Christine Rosen (formerly Stolba), a historian, from 2003 to 2016. He graduated as valedictorian from the Dalton School (1982), summa cum laude from Harvard University in English Literature and Government (1986) and was a Marshall scholar at Balliol College, Oxford in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (1988), from which he received a second bachelor's degree. He also has a law degree from Yale Law School (1991), after which he served as law clerk to Chief Judge Abner Mikva.

He is a professor of law at the Law School of George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and was the commentator on legal affairs for The New Republic from 1992 to 2014. He then joined The Atlantic as a contributing editor. Rosen is a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he speaks and writes about technology and the future of democracy. He often appears as a guest on National Public Radio, was a staff writer at the New Yorker, and is a frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine.