Harrison M. Rosenthal

Harrison Rosenthal
  • Ph.D. Student

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Biography —

Harrison M. Rosenthal is an attorney* and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kansas (KU) studying media law and policy. He researches new media content regulation, cyber-hate, First Amendment philosophy, and attorney wellness. His work has appeared in Jurimetrics, The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, and Journalism Practice. He is Principal Investigator to the Kansas Supreme Court’s Task Force for Lawyer Well-Being, conducting a digital state-wide census to understand the well-being of the Kansas Bar. He teaches communications law, media ethics, and principles of gamification at the William Allen White School of Journalism and Mass Communications. He serves as an officer with the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Law & Policy Division. He also serves as Vice Chair for the KU Graduate Student Advisory Board, Vice President for the KU chapter of Phi Kappa Phi, and Member at Large to the University Daily Kansan Board of Directors. He has clerked for the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas, the Seventh and Tenth Judicial Districts of Kansas, and the Kansas Court of Appeals.

*Admitted in Kansas, Missouri, and U.S. District Courts for the Eastern and Western Districts of Missouri.

Research —

Research interests:

  • New Media Content Regulation
  • Cyber-hate
  • First Amendment Philosophy
  • Attorney Wellness

Selected Publications —

Genelle I. Belmas & Harrison M. Rosenthal, Investigative vs. Mandatory Reporting: Weaponizing Title IX Against Journalists, 24 N.Y.U. J. LEGIS. & PUB. POL’Y 1 (forthcoming 2022).

Harrison M. Rosenthal & Genelle I. Belmas, (Non)existent Laws of Workplace Cyberbullying: Limitations of Legal Redress in a Digitized Market, reprinted in RESEARCH ANTHOLOGY ON CHANGING DYNAMICS OF DIVERSITY AND SAFETY IN THE WORKFORCE 2019-2040 (forthcoming 2022) (reprinted chapters are selected based on the quality of research findings and contributions to business and management scholarship).

Harrison M. Rosenthal & Genelle I. Belmas, Cyber-Recapitulation? What Online Games Can Teach Social Media About Content Management, 61 JURIMETRICS J. 331-78 (2021).

Piotr S. Bobkowski & Harrison M. Rosenthal, Journalism Civic Self-Efficacy: Predicting Political Participation Among Secondary-School Journalism Students, JOURNALISM PRACTICE (2021).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Speech Imperialization? Situating American Parrhesia in an Isegoria World, 35 INT’L J. SEMIOTICS OF LAW (forthcoming 2022) (online-first edition 2020) (finalist for AEJMC Law and Policy Division’s Harry W. Stonecipher Award for Distinguished Research on Media Law and Policy).

Harrison M. Rosenthal & Genelle I. Belmas, (Non)existent Laws of Workplace Cyberbullying: Limitations of Legal Redress in a Digitized Market, in HANDBOOK OF RSCH. ON CYBERBULLYING AND ONLINE HARASSMENT IN THE WORKPLACE 425–446 (2020).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Bridging the Divide: A Need to Reevaluate the Marketplace of Ideas, 49 MEDIA L. NOTES (Issue 3) (2021).

Bob Lambrechts & Harrison M. Rosenthal, Kansas Task Force on Lawyer Well-Being and the Path Forward, KAN. TASK FORCE FOR LAW. WELL-BEING (2021).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, A Case for Comps: Embracing Them with Appreciation, Not Consternation, 49 MEDIA L. NOTES (Issue 2) (2021).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Teaching in the Era of COVID-19, 49 MEDIA L. NOTES (Issue 1) (2020).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Newer Grad Students Need Help Becoming Independent, 48 MEDIA L. NOTES (Issue 3) 3 (2020).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Teaching Tools Can Help Demystify Media Law, 48 MEDIA L. NOTES (Issue 2) 3 (2020).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Grad Students Must Support Expression, 48 MEDIA L. NOTES (Issue 1) 1 (2019).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Kill the Comma? A Case for Punctuation Preservation, 87 J. KAN. B.­­­­ ASS’N 25 (2018).

Selected Presentations —

Jerry Crawford, Anastasia Kononova, Mia Moody-Ramirez, Carolyn Bronstein, and Harrison M. Rosenthal, Covid-19, Free Speech, Hate Speech: Implications for Journalism Teaching, Ass’n Educ. Journalism and Mass Commc’n, Nat’l Conf. (Aug. 2021).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Viewpoint Conditioning: Social Media Use, Political Self-Efficacy, and First Amendment Perceptions, Ass’n Educ. Journalism and Mass Commc’n, Open Div., Se. Colloquium (Mar. 2020).

Piotr Bobkowski & Harrison M. Rosenthal, Media Civic-Efficacy: Predicting Civic Engagement Among Secondary-School Journalism Students, Ass’n Educ. Journalism and Mass Commc’n, Nat’l Conf. (Aug. 2019).

Harrison M. Rosenthal & Genelle Belmas, Truthful Information, Interested Parties? Justice Thomas’s Notions of Government Speech Regulation, Ass’n Educ. Journalism and Mass Commc’n, L. Pol’y Div., Se. Colloquium (Mar. 2018).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, For Whom the School Bell Tolls: Reevaluating Student Speech Protections November 2018 in a Post-Parkland Era, Mid-Atl. Popular & Am. Culture Ass’n, L. Popular Culture Div. (Nov. 2018).

Harrison M. Rosenthal, Origins and Principles of State Lethal Injection Secrecy Laws, Mid-Atl. Popular & Am. Culture Ass’n, Am. Stud. Div. (Nov. 2017).

Service —

  • JOUR 201 — Game On and Level Up! Gamification in the Professions
  • JOUR 308 — Ethics in a Wired World
  • JOUR 618 — First Amendment Law and Society