Diane L. Rosenfeld is a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School where she teaches courses on Gender Violence, Law and Social Justice, Title IX, and Theories of Sexual Coercion.  She supervises clinical students who work on women’s rights legal advocacy and gender justice. particularly in the areas of campus sexual assault and improving the criminal justice response to domestic violence. Additionally, she teaches reading groups on “Feminist Jurisprudence and the Common Law” and “Power, Beauty, Sex and Violence.”  Ms. Rosenfeld received her LL.M from Harvard Law School in 1996.  Prior to teaching at Harvard, Ms. Rosenfeld served as the Senior Counsel to the Violence Against Women Office of the U.S. Department of Justice. She also served as an Executive Assistant Attorney General in Illinois where she provided legal policy advising in women’s rights, environmental enforcement, and the ethics of government attorneys.

Ms. Rosenfeld co-produced with Cambridge Documentary Films “Rape Is…” which has received several film awards (www.rapeis.org ).  She has lectured extensively with the film around the country and abroad. Ms. Rosenfeld is a frequent public speaker on the various legal and social policy issues concerning violence against women.  She has served as a Commissioner on the Governor’s Commission on Sexual and Domestic Violence in Massachusetts.

She was recently given the “Changemaker” Award from the Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center in recognition of her work with the Greater Newburyport High Risk Case Management Team, and was given a “Champion for Change” Award 2005 from the Boston Area Rape Crisis Center.