Professor Richard Rosen
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Vice Dean 2009 Professor of Law 2006 Director, Center for Military Law & Policy President, Texas Tech Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa 2009-2010 Former Associate Dean for Administration & External Affairs, 2003-2007 806.742.3990 x303 Email: |
Admitted to practice in Florida and before the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Fifth, Ninth, Tenth and Federal Circuits.
Degrees
B.A., Ohio State University, 1970
J.D., University of Miami, 1973
LL.M., University of Virginia, 1987
Dean Rosen joined the faculty after completing a distinguished career as an officer in the Judge Advocate General’s Corps, U. S. Army. He was a litigator for a Miami law firm for several years before joining the Army as a judge advocate. Before retiring from the military, Dean Rosen was Commandant of the Judge Advocate General’s School, U.S. Army in Charlottesville, VA, where he commanded the Army’s ABA-recognized law school. Other military positions held by Dean Rosen include Staff Judge Advocate of the III Armored Corps and Fort Hood, Fort Hood, TX; Chief of Personnel, Plans and Training, The Pentagon, Washington, DC; Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Division, Department of Justice, Washington, DC; Deputy Legal Counsel to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, The Pentagon, Washington, DC; and Staff Judge Advocate of the 1st Cavalry Division, Fort Hood, TX.
Courses
Torts, Constitutional Law, Litigation with the Federal Government, National Security Law
Selected Publications and Presentations
Targeting Enemy Forces in a War on Terror: Preserving Civilian Immunity, 42 Vand. J. Transnat’L L. 683 (2009).
Rights of Returning Servicemembers in Texas, LEXIS/NEXIS Emerging Issues Commentary (Sep. 2008).
Katcoff v. Marsh at Twenty-Two: The Military Chaplaincy & the Separation of Church and State, 38 U. Tol. L. Rev. 1137 (2007).
America’s Professional Military Ethic and the Treatment of Captured Enemy Combatants in the Global War on Terror, 5 Geo. J. L. & Pub. Pol’Y 113 (2007).
Military Legal Practice Maxims, Army Law. (June 2001), at 22.
Funding "Non-Traditional" Military Operations: The Alluring Myth of a Presidential Power of the Purse, 155 Mil. L. Rev. 1 (1998).
Thinking About Due Process, Army Law. (March 1988), at 3.
Civilian Courts & the Military Justice System: Collateral Review of Courts-Martial, 108 Mil. L. Rev. 5 (1985).

