Born in Hamburg, Germany, the Hon. Ernst Rosenberger focuses on domestic and international litigation, as well as arbitration, alternative and international dispute resolution and mediation.

Prior to joining Stroock in March 2004, Justice Rosenberger served as an Associate Justice of the New York Supreme Court Appellate Division, First Department, since 1985. He sat on over 15,000 criminal and civil appeals from the highest trial courts of New York. Prior to the Appellate Division, Justice Rosenberger served as Justice of the New York Supreme Court (1977-1985). During this period, he was the Presiding Justice of the Court’s Extraordinary Special and Trial Term for investigation of corruption in the criminal justice system. Justice Rosenberger also served as an Acting Justice of the New York Supreme Court (1973-1976) and a Judge in the Criminal Court of the City of New York (1972 -1976).

Justice Rosenberger’s distinguished career in the law is also marked by concern for the rights of the disenfranchised. He volunteered his services in the defense of the Freedom Riders arrested in 1961 in Jackson, Mississippi, and he worked on public accommodation and voting rights cases throughout the South in the 1960s. His international experience includes being one of two U.S. judges to examine West Germany’s legal system during an official visit to the country in the 1970s. Justice Rosenberger, who has served on the New York Law School faculty since 1976, has been named by New York Magazine and the Village Voice as being one of New York’s best judges.

Activities

Member: Association of Justices of the Supreme Court of the State of New York (Chairman, Committee on Reform of the Law); New York County Lawyers’ Association (Co-Chairman, Trial Practice Course); Association of the Bar of the City of New York; New York State and American Bar Associations; Founding Director, New York Offender Aid and Restoration; Founding President, NYCLA, American Inn of Court; Vice Chair, Board of Trustees, New York Law School; Frequent lecturer, colleges, university law schools and bar associations

Admitted to Practice

New York, 1958

U.S. District Courts, Southern and Eastern Districts of New York

U.S. Customs Court

U.S. Court of Appeals, Second Circuit

U.S. Supreme Court

Hamburg, Germany

Education

LL.M., University of Virginia School of Law, 1996

J.D., New York Law School, 1958; Editor-in-Chief, New York Law School Law Review

B.A., City College of the City University of New York, 1955