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Washington University in St. Louis

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5.04/23/2026

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Laura Rosenbury is a distinguished professor in the Law faculty at Washington University in St. Louis. She earned an A.B. summa cum laude in Women’s Studies from Harvard-Radcliffe College in 1992 and a J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School in 1997, where she served as Primary Editor of the Harvard Law Review. Following law school, she clerked for Judge Carol Bagley Amon on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York and for Judge Dennis Jacobs on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. She then practiced as a litigation associate in the New York office of Davis Polk & Wardwell and taught Feminist Legal Theory as an adjunct associate professor at Fordham University School of Law. In 2002, Rosenbury joined Washington University School of Law as faculty, achieving tenure as Professor of Law in 2008. She served as Associate Dean for Research and Faculty Development from 2010 to 2012, John S. Lehmann Research Professor from 2013 to 2014, and as affiliated faculty in the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program since 2007.