Stephen Rosenbaum, Senior Lecturer, University of California Berkeley School of Law & Staff Attorney, Disability Rights California

Stephen Rosenbaum is a staff attorney with Disability Rights California in Oakland, specializing in the educational rights of students with disabilities and institutionalized persons. Previously a senior litigation attorney with the Disability Rights Education & Defense Fund, and a longtime staff attorney with California Rural Legal Assistance, Steve has been a Lecturer in Law at UC, Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law since 1988, where he has taught Mental Health Law, Advocacy & Policy, Social Justice Skills & Practice Issues, Civil Rights Litigation, Spanish Language and Cultural Competency for Lawyers and a legislative drafting workshop on involuntary commitment. He has also taught Disability Rights Law at Stanford University and has written several law journal articles on the subjects of disability, education, international human rights, lay advocacy and immigration.

Since 2003, Steve has served as a trainer at the annual COPAA (Council of Parent Attorneys & Advocates) attorney training conference and has conducted many workshops for parents, school professionals, lay advocates and special education hearing officers and administrative law judges. He is a member of the COPAA Amicus Curiae Committee and former member of the National Disability Rights Network Legal Committee. He also sits on advisory committees of the California Office of Administrative Hearings and UC-Berkeley Disability Studies. He is a member of the ACLU of Northern California board of directors and a former member of Berkeley school district special education and curriculum committees. Steve was awarded a Wasserstein Public Interest Fellowship at Harvard Law School in 2002 and advocacy awards from Bay Area disability advocacy organizations in 2005 and 2006. In 2007, he was asked to help establish a law school clinic at the Université de Lomé, Togo and in 2008, he was a Visiting Scholar at the University of Auckland (NZ) School of Critical Studies in Education.