Carrie Rosenbaum '02 is a proud King Hall alumna and has been on faculties and has taught at the University of San Francisco, Santa Clara University, UC Law SF, Berkeley Law and UC Berkeley, Chapman University, and Golden Gate University, and held an directorial administrative position at King Hall. Using critical race and critical legal theory as frameworks, she writes about problems at the intersection of criminal, constitutional, and immigration law. Her research explores the ways in which the origins and modern manifestations of immigration, administrative, and anti-discrimination law have shaped implicit racialized oppression. Her legal scholarship has appeared in the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Pennsylvania Regulatory Review, the Denver Law Review, the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, and Berkeley La Raza Law Journal. Professor Rosenbaum also produces public scholarship providing critical commentary on immigration law and policy.
She designed and taught the first seminar on crimmigration law at Chapman Law, "Criminality, Immigration, and the Constitution," including an experiential and critical legal theory framework. She has also taught the American Cultures course, "Immigration and Citizenship" at UC Berkeley. The Berkeley Law Center for the Study of Law and Society hosted her as a Visiting Scholar, and she directed the Berkeley Law Immigrant Justice and Climate Refugees Working Group.
She is proud to serve on the newly chartered American Association of Law Schools (AALS) Critical Theories Committee formed to protect and advance the scholarly production and innovative teaching of critical theory. Rosenbaum is a co-chair of the Law and Society Association, Immigration and Citizenship section, and is a regular speaker and moderator at conferences including LatCrit, ClassCrits, LSA, and immigration scholar conferences, and is the founding organizer of interdisciplinary immigration critical theory writing groups to foster development of research in the field and collegiality.
Professor Rosenbaum provides California Racial Justice Act testimony in criminal cases, with a particular focus on conflation of perceived race and ethnicity, and legal outsider, “alien” other, or noncitizen legal status. As an immigration lawyer, she has helped keep families together, has advocated to broaden the heteronormative and culturally-specific notion of a “bona fide” marriage, has helped noncitizens seek protection from persecution, and obtained their release from immigration imprisonment. She has authored treatises and articles for legal publisher LexisNexis and nonprofit/nongovernmental organizations, is a Board Member for the Benders Immigration Bulletin, and has held leadership roles in the San Francisco Bay Area chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the National Lawyers Guild.