Law Faculty Votes to Grant Prof. Alan Rozenshtein Tenure

The University of Minnesota Law School faculty have enthusiastically voted to grant Professor Alan Rozenshtein tenure, pending approval by the Board of Regents at the end of the academic year. 

Rozenshtein joined the Law School as a visiting professor in 2017, joining the faculty as an associate professor of law in 2019. He is a senior editor at Lawfare, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the Scholars Strategy Network, and a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Nebraska College of Law. He was previously an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University.

Prior to joining Minnesota Law, he served as an attorney advisor in the Office of Law and Policy in the National Security Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where his work focused on operational, legal, and policy issues relating to cybersecurity and foreign intelligence. He also served as a special assistant United States attorney for the District of Maryland. During this time he taught cybersecurity at Georgetown Law.

Rozenshtein clerked for Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. While attending Harvard Law School, he was a Heyman Fellow, served as articles editor for the Harvard Law Review, and was a contributor to Lawfare. Before attending law school, he studied philosophy at Balliol College at the University of Oxford.