Dr. Rowen received a J.D. from Berkeley School of Law in 2009, a Ph.D. from the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program at Berkeley School of Law in 2012, and was a doctoral fellow at the American Bar Foundation in 2012-2013. Prior to her current position at UMass, Dr. Rowen taught in the Centre for Criminology and Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto.

Dr. Rowen’s work examining the creation and implementation of Veterans Treatment Courts was supported by a National Science Foundation CAREER Award, and is the foundation of her new book Worthy of Justice: The Politics of Veterans Treatment Courts in Practice. Dr. Rowen’s first book, Searching for Truth in the Transitional Justice Movement (Cambridge University Press 2017), focuses on the emergence of transitional justice as an idea in international and domestic scholarship, policy making, and advocacy. Her other publications have appeared in Law and Society Review, Law and Social Inquiry, Law and Policy, Human Rights Quarterly, International Journal of Transitional Justice, and other journals and edited volumes. She is a regular contributor to The Conversation and WHNH’s “The Attitude with Arnie Arnesen,” and has appeared on WBAI (NYC Public Radio), Legal AF (Meidas Network), among other media outlets.