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Dr. Anat Rosenberg

Harry Radzyner Law School Ph.D., Tel Aviv University

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Areas of expertise

The history of consumer capitalism in late modernity
Liberal thought in late modernity
Liberalism critique, particularly the role of class and gender in liberalism
Cultural legal history
The interrelations of law and literature
Contract Law
Consumer credit
Advertising law
Marriage promises
The Victorian and fin de siècle novel in England

Dr. Anat Rosenberg completed her LL.B. magna cum laude at the Hebrew University, and her PhD in 2011 at the Tel Aviv University direct doctoral course.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Between 2017 and 2020 she had been a visitor at the Faculty of History, the University of Cambridge and the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, the University of London, as well as Wolfson College and thereafter Emmanuel College, the University of Cambridge. She has been a research fellow at the Sacher Institute for Legislative Research and Comparative Law, 2010-11, and a visiting fellow at Columbia University 2006-07.
Dr. Rosenberg’s research uses methodologies of cultural legal history, law and the humanities, and law and literature. She has recently completed a book on the cultural legal history of advertising in Britain in the first era of mass consumption, c. 1840-1914 (to be published in September 2022). New research projects include an international research network on enchantment in the history of capitalism; an edited collection on law and the material turn.
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Interview by Astrid Van den Bossche on The Rise of Mass Advertising, for the CaMP Anthropology Blog (2023)

Books & Volumes

The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2022)

The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2022), Introduction

The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity - endorsements

The Rise of Mass Advertising- review by Astrid van den Bossche, Business History (2023), https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2023.21684

The Rise of Mass Advertising- review by James Taylor, Journal of Social History (2023) https://academic.oup.com/jsh/advance-article/doi/10.1093/jsh/shad007/7091815

Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History (Routledge, 2018)

Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History (Routledge, 2018), Introduction

Editor, with Roy Kreitner and Christopher Tomlins, Arts and the Aesthetic in Legal History, special issue of Critical Analysis of Law 2015

Articles and Essays

Fears of Enchantment: Oliver Onions’ Good Boy Seldom and the Making of an Advertising Myth,” 12 Cultural History 44 (2023).

'British Liberalism, Advertising, and (Dis)enchantment,' 146 Zmanim 40 (2022) (Hebrew)
ליברליזם בריטי, פרסום, ו(אי)התפוגגות הקסם' 146 זמנים 40 (2022)'

"Ways of Seeing Advertising: Law and the Making of Visual Commercial Culture," Law & Social Inquiry (2021)

"Legal Ridicule in the Age of Advertisement: Puffery, Quackery and the Mass Market," 61 American Journal of Legal History 281 (2021)

"Exaggeration: Advertising, Law and Medical Quackery in Britain, c. 1840-1914," 42 The Journal of Legal History 202 (2021)

"The Market Enchanters: Mind Control in the History of Advertising," Hidden Persuaders Project (2021)

"‘Amongst the Most Desirable Reading’: Advertising and the Fetters of the Newspaper Press, Britain c. 1848-1914," 37 Law and History Review 657 (2019).

"Slavery, Freedom and Contract: Blurred Lines and Historical Resistance," 44 Law and Social Inquiry 526 (2019) (with Eli Cook)

"What Do Contracts Histories Tell Us About Capitalism?: From Origins and Distribution, to the Body and the Nation," in The Oxford Handbook of Historical Legal Research (Markus Dubber & Christopher Tomlins eds., 2018)

"Power in Numbers: Commodity Fetishes and Facts Between Trollope and Law," in The Edinburgh Companion to Anthony Trollope (Frederik Van Dam, David Skilton & Ortwin de Graef eds., 2018)

"Rational Households: Consumption Between Love and Hate," 21 Georgetown Journal of Gender and the Law (2018)

"How to Do Things with Law and Literature (in Israel)," in The Nili Cohen Book (Shai Lavi & Ofer Grosskopf eds., 2017), as edited for republication in 14 Alei Mishpat - College of Law and Business Journal (forthcoming 2018) (Hebrew).איך לעשות דברים עם משפט וספרות (בישראל)," ספר נילי כהן (עורכים שי לביא ועופר גרוסקופף, 2017), כפי שנערך לפרסום מחדש, עלי משפט 14 (2018)"

"Arts and the Aesthetic in Legal History," 2 Critical Analysis of Law 314 (2015) (with Roy Kreitner and Christopher L. Tomlins)

"The Realism of the Balance Sheet: Value Assessments Between the Debtors Act and The Picture of Dorian Gray," 2 Critical Analysis of Law (special Issue: Arts and the Aesthetic in Legal History) 363 (2015)

"The History of Genres: Reaching for Reality in Law and Literature," 39 Law & Social Inquiry 1057 (2014).

"Liberal Anguish: Wuthering Heights and the Structures of Liberal Thought," 69 Nineteenth Century Literature1 (2014)

"Entanglements: A Study of Liberal Thought in the Promise of Marriage," 20 Cardozo Journal of Law & Gender (2014) (selected for the 2013 Israeli Junior Faculty Forum).

"Contract’s Meaning and the Histories of Classical Contract Law," 59 McGill Law Journal 165 (2013)

"Separate Spheres Revisited: On the Frameworks of Interdisciplinarity and Constructions of the Market," 24 Law & Literature 393 (2012)

"The Contracting Person Between Individualism and Collectivism," 13 IDC Law Review 379 (2011).
הפרט החוזי בין אינדיבידואליזם וקולקטיביזם," משפט ועסקים יג (2011)"

Book Reviews

Review of James Greenhalgh, Injurious Vistas: The Control of Outdoor Advertising, Governance and the Shaping of Urban Experience in Britain, 1817–1962, 49 Urban History 817 (2022).

Book Review, Noam Yuran, What Money Wants: An Economy of Desire (Stanford Universtiy Press 2014), Critical Inquiry (2014)
“Fake News is an Old Problem”: An Interview with Anat Rosenberg

Lab Podcast: The history of advertising (Hebrew)

Law blog: Tracing, responsibility and social breakdown (Hebrew)

academix podcast: law, culture and mass advertising (Hebrew)

Kristof Smeyers in conversation with Anat Rosenberg, Enchantment in the History of Capitalism podcas
Academia.edu

Research Gate

SSRN

Research network: Enchantment in the History of Capitalism

Book: The Rise of Mass Advertising

The Lab- podcasts on the history of advertising (Hebrew)

Book: Liberalizing Contracts