Gerald N. Rosenberg (born 1954) is an American political science and law professor at the University of Chicago, and the author of the 1991 book The Hollow Hope, now in its 3rd edition (2023).
He has also served as a visiting fellow in the Law Program, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 1995–1996.
Focusing on well known Supreme Court cases, particularly Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade, The Hollow Hope argues that they did not produce the significant social reforms that proponents claim for them.
It was also given the Wadsworth Award by the Law-Courts section of the American Political Science Association (for a publication ten years or older that has made a lasting contribution) in 2003.
In addition, Rosenberg is a 1993 recipient of the Llewellyn John & Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching from the University of Chicago.