Professor

Jonathan

Rose

                                                                   Jonathan Rose 

                                                     Emeritus Professor of Law and

                                     Willard H. Pedrick Distinguished Research Scholar

                       Faculty Fellow, Center for the Study of Law, Science, & Technology                                                                              

 After spending most of his career focusing on antitrust, regulation, and legal ethics, Jonathan Rose changed direction. Since 2000, his primary scholarly interests have involved medieval and early modern English legal history. His work has focused on the history and regulation of the legal profession, the operation of the legal system in medieval and early modern England, and the historiography of legal history. He has presented papers on these topics at numerous conferences and seminars. His major work is Maintenance in Medieval England (Cambridge University Press 2017).   

 Professor Rose is a Faculty Affiliate, AZ Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies and an Affiliate Faculty, Department of History and the College of Law Center for Law, Science, and Innovation.  He has taught Legal History, Contracts, Professional Responsibility, Law & Economics, Antitrust and Regulatory Law. He has received several awards for outstanding teaching. Professor Rose is the author of numerous articles and other works on legal history, antitrust, economic regulation, and legal ethics. He has endowed scholarships for students at the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law & now he and his wife have endowed the Jonathan and Wendy Rose Professor of Law at the College.

 Professor Rose is a member of the Selden Society, the American Society for Legal History, European Society for Comparative Legal History, the Medieval Academy of America, the North American Conference on British Studies, the American Law Institute, and Fellow, American Bar Foundation. He is a life member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and an affiliate of the Centre for the Study of English Legal History, Faculty of Law, University of Cambridge as well as a frequent Visiting Faculty member of the Faculty of Law. He was a Visiting Researcher at the Max Planck Institute in Frankfurt, Germany. He is a Senior Fellow of the Administrative Conference of the United States, member Arizona Advisory Committee to the United State Civil Rights Commission and has also served on numerous committees and boards and as a consultant for the various departments of the state of Arizona, including as a Special Assistant to Governor & Attorney General Bruce Babbitt.

 Professor Rose has been a professor at the College since 1968 and was Associate Dean from 1987-90.  He retired in 2012 and continues to work full time on his legal history research and scholarship and his family history. He graduated with honors from the University of Pennsylvania in 1960, and from the University of Minnesota Law School magna cum laude in 1963, where he was Senior Editor of the Minnesota Law Review.