Noah Aaron Rosenblum is an Assistant Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law, where he was previously the Samuel I. Golieb Fellow in Legal History. He received his J.D. from Yale Law School, where he was a legal history fellow and an Articles & Essays Editor for the Yale Law Journal. After graduation, he served as a law clerk to Judge Jenny Rivera of the New York Court of Appeals and Judge Guido Calabresi of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Noah is concurrently a Ph.D. candidate in intellectual and legal history at Columbia University, where his studies have been supported by a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship from the United States Department of Education.
Noah works in the fields of administrative law, constitutional law, and legal history. His research takes a historical approach to the study of state institutions, seeking to understand how law can be used to promote democratic accountability. He is currently pursuing several projects on the history of the place of the president in the administrative state. His other work has explored the history of professional regulation, the history and theory of democratic institutions, and the law of public corruption, among other topics. Noah’s writing has been published in top academic journals and honored with several scholarly prizes, including the Joseph Parker Prize in Legal History and the Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Legal Ethics.
Before coming to NYU, Noah taught in the history department at Columbia and in the history and computer science departments at Yale. He has given guest lectures at many universities, secondary schools, and summer programs, including in classes at Harvard Law School, the University of Chicago, Phillips Andover, and the Hong Kong International School. Noah was honored to deliver the 17th Reginald E. Zelnick Memorial Lecture at the Riverdale Country School.
Noah is also a sought-after commentator on legal current events. He is an authority on New York State courts, about which he has written for several New York publications. And he has provided legal analysis on both New York State and national legal developments for major television, radio, and print news sources, including WPIX Channel 11, WCBS, and The Brian Lehrer Show.
