Areas of expertise
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The history of consumer capitalism in late modernity
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Liberal thought in late modernity
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Liberalism critique, particularly the role of class and gender in liberalism
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Cultural legal history
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The interrelations of law and literature
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Contract Law
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Consumer credit
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Advertising law
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Marriage promises
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The Victorian and fin de siècle novel in England
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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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Work in Progress
“Fears of Enchantment: Oliver Onions’ Good Boy Seldom and the Making of an Advertising Myth,” Cultural History (forthcoming 2023).
Books & Volumes
Articles and Essays
'British Liberalism, Advertising, and (Dis)enchantment,' 146 Zmanim 40 (2022) (Hebrew)
ליברליזם בריטי, פרסום, ו(אי)התפוגגות הקסם' 146 זמנים 40 (2022)'"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)
"Arts and the Aesthetic in Legal History," 2 Critical Analysis of Law 314 (2015) (with Roy Kreitner and Christopher L. Tomlins)
"Contract’s Meaning and the Histories of Classical Contract Law," 59 McGill Law Journal 165 (2013)
Book Reviews
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“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
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Research network: Enchantment in the History of Capitalism
Book: The Rise of Mass Advertising
The Lab- podcasts on the history of advertising (Hebrew)