Zalman Rothschild holds a JD, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School and a PhD in Religion from New York University. Previously, he was a Bigelow Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School, a law clerk to Judge Jane Roth on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and a litigation associate at Paul, Weiss. During his time in practice, Professor Rothschild was recognized by The American Lawyer in its "Litigator of the Week" profile and received the "On the Rise—Top 40 Young Lawyer" award from the American Bar Association.

Professor Rothschild's research focuses on the First Amendment, anti-discrimination law, and law and religion. His scholarship has or will appear in Columbia Law Review, Cornell Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Yale Law Journal Forum, and the Journal of Law and Religion, among other places, and has been featured in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and the New York Review of Books. His popular writing has appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. In 2023, the Law and Religion Section of the Association of American Law Schools awarded Professor Rothschild the Harold Berman Award for Excellence in Scholarship.

Featured Scholarship:

The Impossibility of Religious Equality

Columbia Law Review (2024-2025), Forthcoming

Free Exercise Partisanship

107 Cornell L. Rev. 1067 (2022)

Individualized Exemptions, Vaccine Mandates, and the New Free Exercise Clause

131 Yale L.J.F. 1106 (2022)

Sovereignty, Reason, and Will: Carl Schmitt and Hasidic Legal Thought

Journal of Law and Religion, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2022

Free Exercise's Outer Boundary: The Case of Hasidic Education

119 Colum. L. Rev. F. 200 (2019)