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Anat Rosenberg is Professor of Law and the Humanities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (IALS), part of the School of Advanced Study at the University of London. She leads the Law and Humanities Hub and holds affiliations as a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and co-founder of the Research Network on Enchantment in the History of Capitalism. Her academic journey began with an LLB magna cum laude from Hebrew University, followed by a PhD from Tel Aviv University in 2011.
Her research employs multidisciplinary methods in Law and the Humanities, particularly focusing on law and history, law and literature, law and visuality, and law and materiality to study modern capitalism, liberalism and media. Her award-winning book The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity (Oxford University Press, 2022) offers a cultural legal history of advertising in Britain from circa 1840-1914. She has also published Liberalizing Contracts: Nineteenth Century Promises Through Literature, Law and History (Routledge, 2018), examining Victorian liberal thought through contracts.
Her extensive publication record reveals consistent focus on the intersections of law, culture, and economic systems, with particular attention to how advertising shaped and was shaped by legal frameworks in modern Britain. Recent work shows increasing interest in enchantment as a framework for understanding capitalism's history, as well as contemporary applications examining affective propaganda and law in Israel's political context.
Scientific Awards:
- Economic History Association of Israel Kleiman Prize for best book (2022)
- Richard Stein essay prize for excellence in interdisciplinary scholarship (2022)
- Israel Law & Society Association best article prize (2023)
- Israel's History & Law Association best article award (2019)
Rosenberg has secured an ISF research grant for her project on affective propaganda and law in Israel's attempted regime overhaul. She actively supervises PhD students in her areas of expertise and has held visiting positions at prestigious institutions including EHESS in Paris (2024), University of Cambridge (2017-2020), IALS (2017-2019), and Columbia University (2006-2007). Her work with the Israeli Law Professors' Forum for Democracy demonstrates her engagement with contemporary legal and political issues.
