At a Glance

Assistant Professor of Law

Columbia University, BA 1990
University of California, Berkeley, MA 1994
New York University, JD 2002

Office: Cargill Hall

Mail: 400 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

Tel: (617) 373-3066

Fax: (617) 373-5056

E-mail: r.rosenbloom@neu.edu

Curriculum Vitae
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Rachel E. Rosenbloom

Professor Rosenbloom teaches and writes in the area of immigration law and policy. Her current research interests focus on deportation, citizenship, the immigration consequences of criminal convictions and LGBT asylum claims.

Prior to joining the law faculty, Professor Rosenbloom was a fellow at the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College, where she was the supervising attorney for the Center’s Post-Deportation Human Rights Project. She has been widely quoted in the media on the wrongful detention and deportation of US citizens and permanent residents, and testified on this subject at a 2008 congressional hearing before the House Subcommittee on Immigration. She has taught as an adjunct professor at Bentley University and is currently an affiliated faculty member of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice at Boston College.

Professor Rosenbloom’s legal career includes practicing union-side labor law at the Boston firm Segal Roitman LLP. From 2002 to 2004, she served as a law clerk to the Hon. Morris E. Lasker in United States District Court. Prior to her legal career, Professor Rosenbloom was a research and advocacy associate at the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, where she documented human rights violations based on sexual orientation, gender identity and HIV status.

To find out more about Professor Rosenbloom’s current work, go to http://www.northeastern.edu/news/stories/2009/09/rosenbloom.html.

Selected Publications

“Remedies for the Wrongly Deported: Territoriality, Finality, and the Significance of Departure,” 33 University of Hawaii Law Review 139 (2011)
“Will Padilla Reach Across the Border?” 34 New England Law Review 327 (2011)
Gone For Good? Seeking Reopening or Reconsideration After a Respondent has Departed the United States, 13-14 Bender's Immigr. Bull. 1 (Jul. 15, 2008).
Beyond the “Immediate Custodian” Rule: Who is the Proper Respondent to an Immigration-Related Habeas Action? 8 Bender’s Immigr. Bull. 853 (May 15, 2003).

Is the Attorney General the Custodian of an INS Detainee? Personal Jurisdiction and the “Immediate Custodian” Rule in Immigration-Related Habeas Actions, 27 NYU Rev. L. & Soc. Change 543-86 (2002).
Editor, Unspoken Rules: Sexual Orientation and Women’s Human Rights. San Francisco: International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, 1995. Second edition, London: Cassell, 1996.