Stephen Rosenbaum is a staff attorney with Disability Rights California (formerly, Protection & Advocacy, Inc.) in Oakland, part of a national disability civil rights network, where he specializes in advocacy on behalf of youth with disabilities and special education needs and supervises law students serving as educational surrogates under the auspices of Advocates for Youth Justice. Previously, he was a senior litigation attorney with the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund and staff attorney with Centro Legal Campesino in Oklahoma and California Rural Legal Assistance.
Mr. Rosenbaum received his M.P.P. from the Goldman School of Public Policy in 1979 and his J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law in 1980. He is a Continuing Lecturer at UC Berkeley School of Law, where he teaches a social justice law and practice seminar, mental health advocacy skills and policy, and civil rights litigation. He also teaches disability rights law at Stanford Law School.
He has published several journal articles, and given presentations, on the themes of international human rights, disability, language and special education policies, paralegalism and immigration reform. In 2008, he will be a visiting scholar at the University of Auckland's School of Critical Studies in Education.
Mr. Rosenbaum has conducted training and outreach campaigns with groups as varied as agricultural laborers, parents of children in special education and migrant education programs in the United States and New Zealand, and West African law students. He has also conducted many workshops for parents, school professionals and special education hearing officers and administrative law judges. He has also sat on advisory committees of the California Special Education Hearing Office, UC, Berkeley Disability Studies and the Berkeley school district. Rosenbaum was awarded a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship at Harvard Law School in 2002 and advocacy awards from Support for Families of Children with Disabilities (2005) and the Alameda County Developmental Disabilities Council (2006).