Anat Rosenberg

Anat Rosenberg is Professor of Law and the Humanities at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London, where she leads the Law and the Humanities Hub (LHub). 

Prof. Rosenberg studies the history of modern capitalism, liberalism, and media, drawing on multidisciplinary methods in Law and the Humanities, including law and visuality, law and materiality, and law and literature. Her recent book, The Rise of Mass Advertising: Law, Enchantment, and the Cultural Boundaries of British Modernity (OUP open access), awarded the Kleiman Prize for best book in Economic History, addresses the formative era of advertising c. 1840-1914 and its legal shaping. She is currently working on a co-edited special issue on enchantment in the history of capitalism; a co-edited special issue on normativity in historical scholarship; and a contemporary history of affective propaganda and law in the attempted regime overhaul in Israel, which she examines as a case study for the modes and conditions of persistence of the liberal rule of law under the current wave of populism.