Arie Rosen researches in legal philosophy and private law theory. He is a founding co-director of the New Zealand Centre for Legal and Political Theory at the Faculty of Law. Before joining Auckland, Arie studied law and philosophy at New York University and was an Emile Noël Fellow at the Jean Monnet Center for International and Regional Economic Law and Justice.

Arie’s work in legal and political philosophy focuses on political authority, the grounds for its exercise, the ideology that sustains it, and the impact it has on law and practical reasoning. His work appears in various edited volumes and leading journals, including Legal Theory, the Oxford Journal of Legal Studies, the University of Toronto Law Journal, Oxford Studies in Private Law Theory and the Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence. His current project, Democracy and Contract (forthcoming with Oxford University Press), focuses on how political authority is exercised in the context of private law and what this can teach us about constitutional structures and the core commitments of liberal political morality.
 
Arie's teaching includes Contract Law and Jurisprudence, as well as advanced courses in private law theory and philosophy. He supervises an independent reading group for undergraduate students interested in legal theory. 

Areas of expertise:
Legal and political philosophy, theory of private law, contract law.