Roger Newman

Roger Newman

Roger Newman has taught Journalism, the Law, and Society since 2003. He is the author of Hugo Black: A Biography (1994; sec. edition, 1997), co-author of Banned Films: Movies, Censors and the First Amendment (1982) and editor-in-chief of The Constitution and Its Amendments (1999, 4 volumes) as well as editor of the Yale Biographical Dictionary of American Law (in progress, to be published in 2008). He has taught at New York University and Hofstra Law School, and was a Research Scholar at NYU Law School from 1985 to 2001.

He has received the following accolades: winner, book award, Scribes - American Society of Writers on Legal Subjects, 1995; finalist, Pulitzer Prize, 1995; and a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation and NEH grants. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, The Nation and ,em>The American Lawyer as well as many other academic and legal publications and newspapers. He lectures extensively across the country and has appeared on NPR, PBS and even Entertainment Tonight. He was educated at Hunter College, the University of Virginia, NYU and Cardozo Law School.