Alexander Rosas

Biography

Alexander S. Rosas is the Dean of International and Summer Programs for Yale College and a Lecturer in Political Science. Dean Rosas’ academic interests in political theory and law lie in issues of international human rights law and cultural diversity, theories of justice, and law and society. He is particularly interested in how modern nation-states can and should (or cannot and should not) use law to negotiate between markedly different cultural and religious groups and, more generally, in the complex relationship between law and freedom. He teaches political theory courses on law and freedom and on punishment. Dean Rosas served as the inaugural Dean of Pauli Murray College at Yale in 2017-2023.

Education

• Ph.D.: University of California, Berkeley
• J.D.: University of California, Berkeley
• B.A.: Stanford University