Just Settling: The Role of Courts in Supervisory Agency Settlements

Professor Rosen received his LLM with honors from the London School of Economics, his JD from Yale Law School, and his BS from Cornell University as a Merill Presidential Scholar. He served as a Senior Editor of the Yale Law Journal and as an Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law. He clerked for the Honorable Edward E. Carnes of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit. From 1995 to 1996, he was an associate with the Washington, D.C. firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson. From 1998 to 2002, he worked for the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's Division of Market Regulation, where he achieved the rank of Special Counsel.

During his time at the Commission, Professor Rosen provided counsel on matters before the President's Working Group on Financial Markets, aided the restoration of financial markets following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, assisted with legislative drafting, and worked on matters including foreign market access, financial derivatives, market structure, and the regulation of exchanges and over-the-counter markets. While at the SEC, Professor Rosen received the Commission's Law and Policy Award and the Manuel F. Cohen Award from the Securities Law Committee of the Federal Bar Association. Before arriving at the University of Alabama, he served as the first Fellow for the Fordham University School of Law's Center for Corporate, Securities and Financial Law. He has spoken both in the United States and abroad at events sponsored by such organizations as the Association of American Law Schools, the American Society of International Law, the Law and Society Association, the Southeastern Association of Law Schools, Futures Industry Association, the Small Business Committee of the American Bar Association's Section on Business Law, the Washington Campus, National Regulatory Services, and the United Kingdom's City and Financial Conferences.

Since joining the legal academy, Professor Rosen has advised federal and state officials and testified before the Committee on Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives. He has advised on business law curricula in Ethiopia and has been selected to teach courses at Australia National University in Canberra, Pusan National University in Korea, and the University of Fribourg in Switzerland.