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Stephen A. Rosenbaum
Title: Lecturer
Tel: 510-267-1200
Email Address: srosenbaum@law.berkeley.edu
Stephen Rosenbaum has been a Lecturer at BerkeleyLaw since 1988, teaching primarily skills courses and advising students in the Napa Advocacy Project and Advocates for Youth Justice educational surrogacy project. His courses include: Social Justice Skills & Practice Issues; Mental Health Law, Advocacy & Policy; Civil Rights Litigation; and Spanish Language and Cultural Competency. He has also taught Disability Rights Law at Stanford Law School and courses in administrative law, public interest lawyering skills and law and social change at Golden Gate University and University of San Francisco schools of law. Rosenbaum is also a staff attorney with Disability Rights California (formerly Protection & Advocacy, Inc.) in Oakland, specializing in the educational rights of students with disabilities and institutionalized persons. Previously he was a senior litigation attorney with the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund and a litigator with the Law Offices of California Rural Legal Assistance.
Rosenbaum has written several law journal articles on the subjects of education, disability, lay advocacy, immigration and international human rights and has testified before the National Council on Disability and California legislative committees on some of these same subjects. He has also litigated a number of impact cases in federal and state court on behalf of immigrants and persons with disabilities and has represented many individuals in mediation and administrative hearings. Rosenbaum has conducted numerous training workshops for parents (English and Spanish), school professionals, lawyers and administrative law judges in the area of special education. He is a regular speaker on this subject and disability generally at academic and professional conferences and in media appearances. In 2005 and 2006, he received advocacy awards from Bay Area developmental disability support organizations.
As a recipient of U.S. Speaker & Specialist grants from the Department of State, Rosenbaum has given periodic lectures to jurists, journalists and non-governmental activists in francophone Africa on such themes as alternative dispute resolution, judicial independence and the American approach to human rights. In 2007, he was asked to help establish a law school clinic and bar association pro bono program in Togo. In 2008, Rosenbaum was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Auckland (New Zealand) School of Critical Studies in Education. He was awarded a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship at Harvard Law School in 2002.
Education:
B.A., University of Michigan (1975)M.P.P., UC Berkeley (1979)
J.D., UC Berkeley (Boalt Hall) (1980)
