Roberta Rosenthal Kwall

Roberta Rosenthal Kwall is the Raymond P. Niro Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law, where she teaches courses in Jewish law and culture, family law, intellectual property and authors’ rights. She earned her JD from the University of Pennsylvania, her BA in Religious and American Studies from Brown University and, most recently, a Master’s Degree in Jewish Studies. In addition to being the co-author of leading casebooks in both intellectual property and real property, Roberta is also the author of The Myth of the Cultural Jew: Culture and Law in Jewish Tradition (Oxford University Press, 2015) and The Soul of Creativity: Forging a Moral Rights Law for the United States (Stanford University Press, 2010). She has received numerous awards for her teaching and scholarship, and, in 2006, Chicago Lawyer magazine deemed her one of the 10 Best Law Professors in Illinois. In 2016, Roberta was selected as an OpEd Project Public Voices Fellow and her pieces have appeared in outlets such as The Chicago Tribune, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, The Forward, and The Jewish Journal. She is currently working on a book about transmitting Jewish tradition in a diverse world.