Jean Rosenbluth
Director, Legal Writing and Advocacy, and Clinical Associate Professor of Law
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Phone: (213) 740-3199
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Jean Rosenbluth is director of the Legal Writing and Advocacy program and a clinical associate professor at USC Law. A former federal prosecutor, Professor Rosenbluth specializes in criminal law, courtroom ethics, immigration crimes, habeas law, criminal procedure, appellate advocacy and white collar crimes. She teaches Advanced Legal Writing and Advocacy and Appellate Advocacy, and oversees the JD and LL.M. legal writing and advocacy program.
Professor Rosenbluth is a sought-after legal expert on topical criminal-law issues, including the death penalty and the latest Supreme Court opinions. She also has commented extensively on such high-profile trials as Michael Jackson, Phil Spector and Robert Blake.
Professor Rosenbluth is a former assistant U.S. attorney and senior litigation counsel for the U.S. Attorney's Office in Los Angeles. She clerked for the Honorable Ferdinand F. Fernandez, judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and the Honorable Alicemarie H. Stotler, chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. She is an academic contributor, eighth edition of Black's Law Dictionary and a former music industry reporter for the Los Angeles Times and Rolling Stone Magazine.
Professor Rosenbluth graduated from Barnard College and USC Law, where she was editor-in-chief of the Southern California Law Review and a member of the Order of the Coif. She serves on the Los Angeles County Bar Association's committee on judicial evaluations for California Court of Appeal justices and is a member of the Association of Legal Writing Directors' Survey Committee.
Articles and Book Chapters
- “Would Californians Have the Courage of Their Convictions in the Face of a Fully Functioning Death Penalty?,” 81 Southern California Law Review Postscript 1 (2008). - (www)
- "Assistant United States Attorney” (and other entries). In Black’s Law Dictionary, 8th ed. (Bryan A. Garner and Henry C. Black, eds.) (West, 2004).
- “Taking Issue with Issue Statements,” 5 Criminal Law Journal (2003).
- Note, “Abortion as Murder: Why Should Women Get Off? Using Scare Tactics to Preserve Choice,” 66 Southern California Law Review 1237 (1993). - (Hein)