Dr. Daniel Rosenbaum

Biography

Daniel B. Rosenbaum is an Associate Professor at Michigan State University College of Law, where he teaches courses in Local Government, Property, and Local Government Policy Lab. His research focuses on how local institutions function, evolve, and interact against a backdrop of opaque and inconsistent state oversight. He employs various methodologies, including public records requests, interviews, empirical methods, and geospatial tools to understand and clarify the operations of often under-the-radar local institutions such as land banks, airport authorities, and parks departments. His scholarship has been published or is forthcoming in prestigious journals such as the Yale Law Journal, Indiana Law Journal, University of Richmond Law Review, Buffalo Law Review, and Marquette Law Review. Prior to joining MSU Law, he served as a visiting assistant professor at the University of Detroit Mercy School of Law, where he taught Property, Estates & Trusts, and Local Government. He also held the position of editor-in-chief of the Michigan Real Property Law Review. Before entering academia, Professor Rosenbaum was the executive director of a public authority managing distressed properties in the Detroit region, advising local municipalities on issues related to divestment, land ownership, and development. A native of Chicago, Illinois, he earned his B.A. from Washington University in St. Louis and his J.D. from Harvard Law School.

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