Teaching Associate Professor
Education
- J.D., Harvard Law School, 1999
- B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1996
Biography
Rob Rogers grew up in Houston, Texas and graduated from the University of Texas, where he was editor of the student newspaper The Daily Texan. After law school at Harvard, he moved to Washington, D.C., where he began as an employment and litigation associate at a large D.C. law firm. He next practiced on Capitol Hill in the Office of Senate Chief Counsel for Employment, where he advised and defended Senate offices in employment-law matters.
He then left litigation for legal journalism, where he worked as an opinion editor at Legal Times, writing legal commentary and editing submissions by professors and practitioners. There, he also wrote a personal-finance column (“Legal Tender”), which advised on investing and financial management for lawyers.
Publications
- Prediction Markets and the First Amendment, 3 U. ILL. L. REV. 833 (2008) (with Miriam A. Cherry).
- Tiresias and the Justices: Using Information Markets to Predict Supreme Court Decisions, 100 NW. U. L. REV. 1141 (2006) (with Miriam A. Cherry).
- Markets for Markets: Origins and Subjects of Information Markets, 58 RUTGERS L. REV. 339 (2006) (with Miriam A. Cherry).
- Protocols for Employment Dispute Resolution, 3 HAR. NEGOT. L. REV. 307 (1998) (book review).
Teaching
Rogers currently teaches Wealth Transfers (LAW 716), which introduces the law of trusts and estates. His research interests in this area focus on the fiduciary duties of trustees regarding their investment of trust property.
