Rose Carmen Goldberg

Rose Carmen Goldberg teaches the Veterans Law Practicum & Seminar and writing courses at UC Berkeley School of Law. In 2022, she received Berkeley Law’s Kathi Pugh Award for Exceptional Mentorship for her support of the L.O.V.E. (Legal Obstacles Veterans Encounter) student-led project. She has also taught at Stanford (op-ed writing), Columbia (Medical-Legal Partnerships), and the National Attorneys General Training and Research Institute (litigation skills).

Rose’s decade of public interest work spans academia, state service, legal aid, and all branches of the federal government. Currently, Rose is Associate Director of Policy and Programs at Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center. She manages and develops programs and conducts original research to make the legal system more accessible and equitable. Her special interests include increasing access to justice for veterans, immigrants, gun violence survivors, and Native Americans.

Prior to joining Stanford Law School, Rose was a Deputy Attorney General in the California Attorney General’s Office, where she helped lead impact litigation and policy advocacy affecting millions of people. Her work focused primarily on gun violence prevention and veterans’ rights. She also led a successful suit that challenged the Trump administration’s failure to implement the Public Service Loan Forgiveness (PSLF) program. Rose was selected as one of thirty Public Rights Project Affirmative Leaders Fellows nationwide to deepen the impact of her office’s work to protect marginalized communities in collaboration with public litigators across the country.

Before that, Rose served as a Skadden Fellow and Supervising Attorney at Swords to Plowshares, where she founded a Medical-Legal Partnership for unhoused and low-income veterans in Oakland, California. The partnership integrated legal and mental health services for veterans who were kicked out of the military consequent to sexual assault, racial discrimination, or mental health conditions.

Rose clerked for the Honorable Theodore A. McKee, then Chief Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. Her federal service also includes working for Senator Blumenthal on his Senate Judiciary Committee and gun violence prevention portfolios, and at the White House in the Obama administration on Native American Affairs. Before law school, Rose worked at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, where she was nominated to serve on the Health Reform Evaluation Committee. She received Exceptional Achievement and Special Service awards for her work to improve the Medicare hospice program.

Rose has written about sexual assault, veterans, mental health, and end-of-life issues in prominent outlets, including: Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, USA Today, The Hill, Boston Globe, Albuquerque Journal, and Slate. In 2021, she received awards from the National Society of Newspaper Columnists for her crisis commentary and social justice writing.

Rose is the appointed Vice Chair of the California Lawyers Association Litigation Section’s Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the American Indian Cultural District in San Francisco and on the Board of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Historical Society.

Rose’s public service has been recognized with numerous awards and recognitions, including: California Women Lawyers Fay Stender Award for humanity, courage, and commitment to the underrepresented; California Department of Veterans Affairs Women Veterans Advocates Award; California Young Lawyers Association Jack Berman Award of Achievement for distinguished service to the public; Squire Patton Boggs Foundation Distinguished Fellow Award; National Center for Medical-Legal Partnerships Outstanding Research Award; Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE); Oklahoma Supreme Court Susan J. Ferrell Scholarship.

Rose earned her J.D. at Yale Law School, where she served as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Health Policy, Law, and Ethics, a Yale Law Journal Writing Fellow on mental health law, and a Coker Fellow in contract law. She received a Native American Law Students Association Writing Prize for an article on tribal judges’ citation practices. She also advocated for reform of the Department of Veterans Affairs’ evidentiary standard for military sexual trauma disability claims as a member of the Veterans Legal Services Clinic, and was a Student Director in the Global Health Justice Practicum.

Education

J.D., Yale Law School (2015)
M.P.A., Columbia University (2008)
B.A., St. John's College (New Mexico) (2006)

Rose Carmen Goldberg is teaching the following courses in Fall 2024:

• 295.4C sec. 001 - Veterans' Law Practicum Seminar
• 295.4D sec. 001 - Veterans Law Practicum
• 295.4K sec. 001 - Advanced Veterans Law Practicum
• 295.4L sec. 001 - Advanced Veterans' Law Practicum Seminar

Courses During Other Semesters

Semester	Course Num	Course Title	Teaching Evaluations
Summer 2024	206.52S sec. 001	Writing to Persuade: How to Win the Hearts and Minds of Any Audience	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2024	295.4K sec. 001	Advanced Veterans Law Practicum	View Teaching Evaluation
	295.4L sec. 001	Advanced Veterans' Law Practicum Seminar	View Teaching Evaluation
Fall 2023	295.4C sec. 001	Veterans' Law Practicum Seminar	View Teaching Evaluation
	295.4D sec. 001	Veterans Law Practicum	View Teaching Evaluation
	295.4K sec. 001	Advanced Veterans Law Practicum	View Teaching Evaluation
	295.4L sec. 001	Advanced Veterans' Law Practicum Seminar	View Teaching Evaluation
Summer 2023	206.52S sec. 001	Writing to Persuade: How to Win the Hearts and Minds of Any Audience	View Teaching Evaluation
Spring 2023	295.4K sec. 001	Advanced Veterans Law Practicum	View Teaching Evaluation
	295.4L sec. 001	Advanced Veterans' Law Practicum Seminar	View Teaching Evaluation