Rose Carmen Goldberg is a George W. Crawford Visiting Clinical Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School and co-teaches the Veterans Legal Services Clinic. She has more than a decade of experience in veterans law and policy. Most recently, she advanced veterans’ access to justice as associate director of policy and programs at Stanford Law School’s Deborah L. Rhode Center. For the past several years, she has taught UC Berkeley School of Law’s Veterans Law Practicum and served as faculty co-founder of the Legal Obstacles Veterans Encounter (LOVE) pro bono project. She has also taught courses on Medical-Legal Partnerships and op-ed writing at Columbia University and Stanford. She began her legal practice as a Skadden Fellow at Swords to Plowshares, where she founded a Medical-Legal Partnership for unhoused and low-income veterans in Oakland, California.
Goldberg’s background also includes state service and positions in all branches of the federal government. She served as a deputy attorney general in the California Attorney General’s Office, where she led affirmative civil litigation and policy advocacy focused primarily on veterans, gun violence prevention, and student loans. Her federal service includes working at the White House on Native American Affairs and for Sen. Blumenthal on Senate Judiciary Committee matters. Before law school, she worked at the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services and was nominated to serve on the Health Reform Evaluation Committee. She clerked for Hon. Theodore A. McKee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit.
She serves on the boards of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California Historical Society and the Squire Patton Boggs Foundation as Veterans Justice Fellowship advisor, and is a faculty member for the National Association of Attorneys General. She is past chair of the California Lawyers Association Litigation Section’s Veterans and Military Affairs Committee and served on the Advisory Board of the American Indian Cultural District of San Francisco. She has been recognized for her service and teaching, including with the California Women Lawyers Fay Stender Award, Berkeley Law Kathi Pugh Award for Exceptional Mentorship, California Department of Veterans Affairs Women Veterans Advocates Award, and California Young Lawyers Association Jack Berman Award of Achievement.
