Dr Anat Rosenberg Appointed Professor of Law and the Humanities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
The Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS) is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Anat Rosenberg to the newly created position of Professor of Law and the Humanities. Dr Rosenberg is currently Associate Professor at the Harry Radzyner Law School at Reichman University in Herzliya, Israel. She will join IALS in September of this year.
Dr Rosenberg graduated with her LLB magna cum laude from Hebrew University and received her PhD in 2011 from Tel Aviv University. She has been a visitor at IALS (2017-2019) as well as at the EHESS – École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (2024), the University of Cambridge (2017-2020) and Columbia University (2006-2007). Her research uses multidisciplinary methods in Law and the Humanities, including law & history, law & literature, law & visuality, and law & materiality, to study modern capitalism, liberalism and media. She is the author of The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2022) (open access) and Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History (Routledge, 2018). She is the co-editor of Arts and the Aesthetic in Legal History (special issue of Critical Analysis in Law, 2015), and Law and the Material Turn (special issue of Law, Society and Culture, 2024). Her research has also appeared in leading journals internationally, including the American Journal of Legal History; Law and Social Inquiry; Journal of Legal History; Law and History Review; and Law & Literature.
Dr Rosenberg’s forthcoming projects include a research series on normativity in legal history; a co-edited special issue on enchantment in the history of capitalism; a study of affective propaganda and law in the attempted regime overhaul in Israel; and a book-length transnational cultural legal history of propaganda.
Dr Anat Rosenberg said:
I am delighted and honoured to join IALS. My work examines how Law and the Humanities complement, provoke, and reframe one another. The ways in which cross-disciplinary methodologies and themes of Law and the Humanities introduce new questions and deliver original insights about the most complex problems of human and other-than-human existence, never ceases to fascinate me. I look forward to collegial collaborations at the School of Advanced Study and beyond it towards new intellectual explorations.
Professor Carl Stychin, Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, said:
We are excited to welcome Dr Anat Rosenberg back to IALS, having been a Visiting Fellow with us. Her research is at the forefront of Law and Humanities scholarship and her collaborative approach will strongly support our remit in the School of Advanced Study to promote and facilitate research across the scholarly community and more widely. This appointment signals our commitment at IALS to collaborating with our colleagues across the humanities disciplines within the School. I look forward to working closely with Anat to develop IALS as a national and international hub of activity in support of research in Law and the Humanities.