Professor Rosenbaum joined the faculty at the Santa Clara University School of Law as a Senior Fellow in 2024. Her research focuses on the intersections of criminal and immigration law as they pertain to shaping membership and belonging; rule of law and anti-discrimination principles in the immigration legal system; and the role of the administrative state in racial identity formation.

Her scholarship has appeared in numerous journals including the Yale Journal on Regulation, the Pennsylvania Regulatory Review, the Denver Law Review, the Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law, and Berkeley La Raza Law Journal. She regularly speaks at symposia and on panels about immigration issues.

Professor Rosenbaum produces public scholarship on matters of national importance including opinion articles featured by the ImmigrationLawProf blog, the Sacramento Bee, Slate, Newsweek, Bloomberg, and other venues. She has authored practice-oriented materials for nonprofit organizations and legal publisher LexisNexis. She teaches immigration courses including a seminar on immigration law and anti-discrimination, as well as first-year law school courses. With Santa Clara Law faculty Evangaline Abriel, she is co-authoring what may be the first crimmigration casebook, to be published by Carolina Academic Press.

Professor Rosenbaum’s legal career has been devoted to lawyering in the public interest and serving immigrant communities. She has over a decade of experience in the public and private sectors, and has extensive experience representing people from all over the world with ordinary and extraordinary legal problems in immigration court, at the Board of Immigration Appeals, circuit courts of appeal and district courts. She was previously an Assistant Professor at Chapman University Fowler School of Law, a Visiting Scholar at the Center for the Study of Law and Society at the UC Berkeley School of Law, and has taught at the University of California (UC) Berkeley, UC Law San Francisco (Hastings), and Golden Gate University School of Law.