Carol M. Rose
Scholar in Residence

Academic Credentials

B.A. 1962 Antioch College.
M.A. 1963 University of Chicago.
Ph.D. 1970 Cornell University.
J.D. with honors 1977 University of Chicago.

Professional Background

Carol M. Rose is Scholar in Residence at Lewis and Clark Law School during the summer and fall terms. She is also the Lohse Professor of Water and Natural Resource Law at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, and the Gordon Bradford Tweedy Professor of Law and Organization (emerita) at Yale Law School. Her major teaching fields are property and environmental law, and she has also taught natural resources law, energy policy, land use regulation, public land management, water law, contracts and intellectual property. She has degrees from Antioch College (B.A. Philosophy,1962), the University of Chicago (M.A. Political Science,1963) and Cornell University (Ph.D. European History,1969), and is a graduate of the University of Chicago Law School (1977). Before beginning her legal career, she taught European history at the Ohio State University. After completing her law degree, she clerked for the Honorable Thomas Gee, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. Prior to her appointment at Yale in 1989, she taught in the law schools at Stanford, the University of California at Berkeley, and Northwestern, where she held the Louis and Harriet Ancel Chair in Law and Public Policy. She has also had visiting appointments at the University of Chicago, Harvard, and New York University, and has been a visiting scholar in the law schools of the University of Cologne in Germany, the University of Adelaide in Australia, the University of Hawaii, the University of Arizona, and New York University.

Professor Rose's writings include two books (Property and Persuasion, 1994; and Perspectives on Property Law, 3d ed. 2002, with Robert Ellickson and Bruce Ackerman), as well as many articles in environmental law, land use regulation, historic preservation, water law, public property, intellectual property, and the history and theory of property. While in law school, she also wrote a monograph on children's welfare law. She has served on the Advisory Committee for the American Law Institute's Restatement of Property (Servitudes), and she is currently an editor of the annual Land Use and Environmental Law Review, and serves on the Board of Editors of the Foundation Press. Among her honors are an honorary degree from the Chicago-Kent Law School and election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.