Jeffrey Rosen is a prominent American legal scholar, writer, and commentator, currently serving as the president and CEO of the National Constitution Center in Philadelphia. Born in 1964, Rosen has led an extensive career centered on exploring the US Constitution, civil liberties, and important influences on American law. Rosen is a graduate of Harvard College, summa cum laude; University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar; and Yale Law School. After law school, Rosen clerked for Chief Judge Abner Mikva on the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.
A highly regarded journalist, Rosen’s commentaries and essays have been published in The New York Times Magazine, on National Public Radio, in The New Republic, where he was the legal affairs editor, and in The New Yorker, where he was a staff writer. Additionally, Rosen is the author of several books including, most recently, The Pursuit of Happiness: How Classical Writers on Virtue Inspired the Lives of the Founders and Defined America.
As president of the National Constitution Center since 2013, Rosen has been instrumental in providing nonpartisan resources for civic education and fostering a unique space for constitutional debate. Rosen additionally serves as a professor at The George Washington University Law School and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. In these roles, Rosen contributes extensively to public understanding of legal concepts, particularly in areas like privacy, free speech, and the judiciary’s role in American democracy.
