Ezra Rosser

Ezra Rosser, a law professor at American University, focuses his research on poverty and on tribal economic development. He teaches Poverty law, Indian Law, Property, Housing Law, Land Use, and Wills, Trusts, and Estates. Ezra has been a visiting professor at Ritsumeiken University and at Université Lyon III, a 1665 Fellow at Harvard University, a visiting scholar at Yale Law School, and a Westerfield Fellow at Loyola University New Orleans. Ezra has an MPhil from the University of Cambridge (UK) in Land Economics (2004), a J.D. from Harvard Law School (2003), and a BA in Economics and English from Yale University (2000).

Ezra is a co-author of Poverty Law, Policy, and Practice (Wolters Kluwer, 2nd ed., 2021) (with Juliet Brodie, Clare Pastore & Jeff Selbin); co-editor of The Poverty Law Canon (Michigan Press, 2014) (with Marie Failinger) and Tribes, Land, and the Environment (Ashgate 2012) (with Sarah Krakoff); editor of Holes in the Safety Net: Federalism and Poverty (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2018); and author of A Nation Within: Navajo Land and Economic Development (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2021).

Though he is non-Indian, Ezra grew up in small part on the Navajo Nation. He lives in the Washington, D.C. area; San Salvador, El Salvador; and Park County, Colorado.