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Ezra Rosser joined the WCL faculty in 2006. He has taught Housing Law, Federal Indian Law, Property, and Poverty Law. He has served as a 1665 Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at Yale Law School, and a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law. While in law school, he clerked at the DNA-People’s Legal Services, at the Office of Native American Programs at the Department of Housing and Urban Development and at the Native American Rights Fund. Ezra was recently selected AALS Poverty Section’s Chair-Elect and is a member of Equal Justice Works’ National Advisory Committee.

• Selected Publications

  • Ezra Rosser, Remittances, 41 Conn. L. Rev. 1 (2008). SSRN Link
  • Ezra Rosser, Obligations of Privilege, 32 N.Y.U. Rev. & L. & Soc. Change 1 (2007). SSRN Link
  • Ezra Rosser, Promises of Non-State Representatives, 116 Yale L.J. Pocket Part 118 (2007).
  • Ezra Rosser, Ambiguity and the Academic: The Dangerous Attraction of Pan-Indian Legal Analysis, 119 Harv. L. Rev. F. 141 (2006). SSRN Link
  • Ezra Rosser, Rural Housing and Code Enforcement: Navigating Between Values and Housing Types, 13 Geo. J. Pov. L. & Policy 33 (2006). SSRN Link

• • More Publications...

• • Ezra Rosser, Letter to the Editor, “Anti-Immigrant Fallout”, N.Y. Times (Nov. 21, 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Protecting Non-Indians from Harm? The Property Conesquences of Indians, 87 Or. L. Rev. 175 (2008). SSRN Link
  • Ezra Rosser, Caution, Cooperative Agreements, and the Actual State of Things: A Reply to Professor Fletcher, 42 Tulsa L. Rev. 57 (2006). SSRN Link
  • Ezra Rosser, The Nature of Representation: The Cherokee Right to a Congressional Delegate, 15 B. U. Pub. Int. L. J. 91 (Fall 2005). SSRN Link
  • Ezra Rosser, This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land: Markets and Institutions for Economic Development on Native American Reservations, 47 Ariz. L. Rev. 245 (2005). SSRN Link
  • Ezra Rosser, The Trade-off Between Self-Determination and the Trust Doctrine: Tribal Government and the Possibilty of Failure, 58 Ark. L. Rev. 291 (2005). SSRN Link
  • Ezra Rosser & S. James Anaya, Systemas de Justicia Indígena y Derecho Consuetudinario en Los Estados Unidos de América: Entre Colonización y Autodeterminación, in Caminos Hacia el Reconocimiento: Pueblos Indígenas, Derechos y Pluralismo (Marco Aparicio Wilhelmi, ed., 2005).

• Selected Presentations

  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Economic Development on Native American Reservations: Impact of the Current Economic Crisis (Securities and Exchange Commission, Wash., D.C., Mar. 2009).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Ahistorical Indians and Reservation Resources (18th Navajo Studies Conference, Diné College, Shiprock, N.M., Mar. 2009).
  • Ezra Rosser, Keynote Speaker, Public Interest, Individual Responsibility, and Markets (22nd Annual Robert M. Cover Public Interest Law Retreat, Peterborough, N.H., Feb. 2009).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Anticipating de Soto: 200 Years of ‘Civilizing’ Native Americans through Imposition of Land-Titling (AALS Annual Meeting 2009, San Diego, Cal., Jan. 2009).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Empirical Analysis of the Effect of Tribal Ownership of Land on Non-Indians (The Public Nature of Private Law Conference, Georgetown Law Center, Wash., D.C., Nov. 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Rethinking Representation in Light of Indigenous Rights and Demands (LatCrit XIII, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Wash., Oct. 2, 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Poverty Off-Sets (Critical Legal Conference 2008, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scot., Sept. 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, The Effect of Indian Ownership on Non-Indian Property Owners (DU-CU Indian Law Works in Progress Symposium, University of Colorado Law School, Boulder, Colo., Aug. 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, DU-CU Indian Law Works in Progress Symposium, University of Colorado Law School, (Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Alaska Inter-Tribal Council, Anchorage, Alaska, July 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Environmental Degradation as an Anti-Poverty Program of Indian Nations (Valparaiso School of Law, Valparaiso, Ind., Apr. 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, The Property Consequences of Disruptive Indians (Junior Property Scholars Works-In-Progress Conference, Widener University School of Law, Wilmington, Del., Feb. 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Remittances (Faculty Workshop, Georgetown Law Center, Georgetown University, Wash., D.C., Feb. 2008).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Integración económica al nivel de las familias pobres: el poder y los límites de las remesas (CLASCO-CROP Seminario Internacional: Pobreza, integración económica y comercio internacional, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecu., Nov. 2007).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Hermanos Cercanos: Improving Regulation and Competition in the Remittance Market (Southeastern Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, Amelia Island, Fla., July 2007).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Development, Freedom, and Immigrant Remittances (Fourth Annual Gloucester Summer Legal Conference, University of Gloucester, U.K., July 2007).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Protecting Non-Indians From Harm (Emerging Indian Law Scholars Roundtable, Lewis & Clark Law School, July 2007).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Obligations of Privilege (Conference on Value Inquiry: Social Justice and Individual Responsibility, Adrian College, Adrian, Mich., Apr. 2007).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Cooperation in the Shadow of Conquest (Cornell University Law School, Ithaca, N.Y., Mar. 2007).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Obligations of Privilege (Association for the Study of Law, Culture & Humanities Hosted by Georgetown University Law Center, Wash., D.C., Mar. 2007).
  • Ezra Rosser & Eduardo Pezo, Presentation, Policing Spending: (Im)Proper Regulation of Remittances (Interrogating Diversity Conference, Hosted by American University Department of Anthropology, Wash., D.C., Mar. 2007).
  • Ezra Rosser, Presentation, Competitive Remittance Mechanisms (Congreso Internacional Sobre Migraciones (International Migration Conference), Hosted by Universidad Centroamericana, San Salvador, El. Sal., Oct. 2006).
  • Ezra Rosser, Speech, Legal Barriers to Indian Housing Development (National American Indian Housing Council Legal Symposium, Las Vegas, Nev., Dec. 2005).
  • Ezra Rosser, Panelist, Homelessness and Poverty: The Effects of Katrina and Beyond (Emory Law Public Interest Law Conference, Emory Law School, Atlanta, Ga., Oct. 2005).
  • Ezra Rosser, Speech, International Humanitarian Law (Public Health Seminar, Tulane University, New Orleans, La., June 2005).
  • Ezra Rosser, Speech, The Last Unbroken Treaty Promise in an Indian Treaty: The Cherokke Right to a Congressional Delegate (Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, Nev., June 2005).
  • Ezra Rosser, Speech, Building Codes in Rual Areas: Two Southwest Case Studies (Western Social Science Association 47th Annual Conference, Albuquerque, N.M., Apr. 2005).
  • Ezra Rosser, Speech, This Land is My Land, This Land is Your Land: Markets and Instutions for Economic Development on Native American Reservations (New Voices in Indigenous Research Conference, University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal., Mar. 2005).
  • Ezra Rosser, Speech, Customary Law: The Way Things Were, Codified (Maintaining Connections, Natives in Academia: Community, Activism, and Responsibiliy, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., Nov. 2004).
  • Ezra Rosser, Speech, Building Codes in Rual Areas: Usage, Signifigance, and Policy (International Conference on Social Science Research, New Orleans, La., Nov. 2004).

• Selected Media Appearances

  • New York Daily News, "New York City Rescue Mission Looking to Expand Aid to Homeless" (N.Y. Daily News Jan. 3, 2009) (Interview).

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