Rebecca Roiphe
Joseph Solomon Distinguished Professor of Law
Contact Information
T 212.431.2804
E rebecca.roiphe@nyls.edu
Faculty Assistant
Tamara Garland
T 212.431.2306
E tamara.garland@nyls.edu
Education
University of Chicago, Ph.D. 2002; Harvard Law School, J.D. 2000, cum laude; Columbia University, B.A. 1993
Profile
Rebecca Roiphe is a leading voice in criminal law and ethics. She writes both scholarly and popular pieces on the legal profession, prosecutors, and criminal justice. She recently completed her service as New York Law School’s Co-Dean for Faculty Scholarship.
Prior to joining NYLS, Professor Roiphe worked as a Manhattan prosecutor. She also served as a law clerk for The Honorable Bruce Selya, U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. She draws on her professional experiences and her training as a historian in her writing. Her scholarship emphasizes the important, mediating role prosecutors play in American democracy and examines the country’s tradition of prosecutorial independence, particularly with regard to the President’s power to control the Department of Justice.
Professor Roiphe’s opinion pieces have appeared in The New York Times, Slate, The New York Review of Books, Politico, The Washington Post, and other popular press. She is frequently quoted as an expert on legal ethics and criminal justice in the media, including in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg News, and the New York Law Journal. Professor Roiphe appears regularly on MSNBC and CNN, and she is a contributing legal analyst at CBS News. Professor Roiphe is also active on national and state bar committees and recently completed a term on the Mayor’s Advisory Council on the Judiciary.
Courses
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