Degrees
- Harvard University, A.B.
- Harvard Law School, J.D.
Expertise
- Constitutional Law
- National Security
- Technology Law
Professor Alan Z. Rozenshtein joined the Law School as a visiting professor in 2017. In 2019 he became an associate professor of law and earned tenure in 2024. He is the research director and a senior editor at Lawfare, a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Scholars Strategy Network. He was previously an affiliate with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University and a visiting faculty fellow at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
From Oct. 2014 to April 2017, 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. From October 2016 to April 2017, he served as a special assistant United States attorney for the District of Maryland. During this time he taught cybersecurity at Georgetown Law.
Before joining the Justice Department, Professor 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.
