Research and Teaching 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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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, an active member of the Israeli Law Professors Forum for Democracy, Co-Convener of the International Law & Humanities Researchers Workshop at Reichman University, Co-Convener of the International Research Network on Enchantment in the History of Capitalism (https://economic-enchantments.net/), and Co-Director of the International Visiting Professors Program at the Harry Radzyner Law School.
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 at 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.
Anat Rosenberg’s research uses multidisciplinary methods in Law and the Humanities, including law & history, law & literature, law & visuality, and law & materiality, to study modern capitalism, liberalism and media. She has recently published The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity (Oxford University Press 2022) (open access).
Her forthcoming projects include an edited special issue on law and the material turn; a research series on normativity in legal history; an edited special issue on enchantment in the history of capitalism; a study of affective propaganda and law in the attempted regime overhaul in Israel; and a book-length transnational cultural legal history of propaganda.
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Books & Edited Special Journal Issues
Articles and Essays
"Contract’s Meaning and the Histories of Classical Contract Law," 59 McGill Law Journal 165 (2013)
Other scientific publications
The Reading List: Advertising, History Today (2024)
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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
The Reading List: Advertising, in History Today magazine
Key points: The Argumentative Structures Utilized by Supporters of the Regime Overhaul, The Israeli
Historical songs about and as advertisements: The Ills of Life and Their Remedies, by Edward Terry –
Historical songs about and as advertisements: The Borax Pet by Edward Sabine – performed by Dima Sch
Historical songs about and as advertisements: John Peel by Beecham – performed by Dima Schechter and
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Research network: Enchantment in the History of Capitalism
The Lab- podcasts on the history of advertising (Hebrew)