Rachel Rebouche
- G. Rollie White Teaching Excellence Chair in Law
- Professor
Rachel Rebouché is the G. Rollie White Chair in Law and Professor of Law. Professor Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive rights and health; she teaches courses on contracts, family law, and health care law. She is the author or editor of eight books, including two casebooks on contracts and family law; the author of numerous articles published in journals such as the Stanford Law Review, Columbia Law Review, among others; and a frequent contributor to national media outlets and newspapers. She serves as the Faculty Director of the Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project. Before joining Texas Law, Professor Rebouché was the Dean and Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law at Temple University School of Law. She was born in Texas and grew up in south Dallas.
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Rachel Rebouché is the G. Rollie White Chair in Law and a Professor of Law. Before joining the law faculty, she served as the Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law and the Peter J. Liacouras Professor of Law.
Professor Rebouché researches and teaches in the areas of reproductive health law, public health, family law, and contract law. She is the author of dozens of articles in law reviews and peer edited journals as well as a frequent contributor to national publications and media outlets in her areas of expertise. She is an author on two casebooks, Family Law and Contracts: Law in Action, and an author or editor of Governance Feminism: An Introduction, Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field, Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten, and Accessing Abortion: Global and Comparative Perspectives. Professor Rebouché has served as a co-investigator on grant-funded research projects related to reproductive health, including projects housed at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and the World Health Organization.
Professor Rebouché received a J.D. from Harvard Law School (Truman Scholarship), an LL.M. from Queen’s University, Belfast (Mitchell Scholarship), and a B.A. from Trinity University. Prior to law school, she worked as a researcher for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission and the Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast. She clerked for Justice Kate O’Regan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and practiced law in Washington, D.C. at the National Partnership for Women & Families and as a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center.
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year-2025
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Article
Abortion Shield Laws in Action
Rachel Rebouche, David S. Cohen, and Greer Donley. “Abortion Shield Laws in Action.” In JAMA Internal Medicine, (July 14, 2025). -
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Facts on Trial: Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and the Battle over Mailed Medication Abortion
Rachel Rebouche. “Facts on Trial: Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine and the Battle over Mailed Medication Abortion.” In 95 University of Colorado Law Review, Page 1-30 (June 2, 2025). -
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Repealing Comstock
Rachel Rebouche, David S. Cohen. “Repealing Comstock.” In 104 Boston University Law Review Online 267, (February 27, 2025).
year-2024
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Inequality on Appeal: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Patent Litigation
Rachel Rebouche, Paul R. Gugliuzza, Jordana Goodman. “Inequality on Appeal: The Intersection of Race and Gender in Patent Litigation.” In 58 UC Davis Law Review, Page 829 (2024). View online. -
Amicus Brief
Brief of Amici Curiae in Support of the United States: Moyle & Idaho v. United States
Moyle v. United States, 603 U.S. 324 (2024)
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Abortion Shield Laws
Rachel Rebouche, David S. Cohen and Greer Donley. “Abortion Shield Laws.” In 2 NEJM Evidence, (April 24, 2024). -
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Abortion Pills
Rachel Rebouche, David S. Cohen and Greer Donley. “Abortion Pills.” In Stanford Law Review, (March 1, 2024). -
Book Chapter
Gender Inequality in U.S. Patent Appeals
Rachel Rebouche, Paul R. Gugliuzza. “Gender Inequality in U.S. Patent Appeals” In A Research Agenda for Intellectual Property Law and Gender (edited by Jessica Lai & Kathy Bowrey, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024). View online.
year-2023
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Understanding Shield Laws
Rachel Rebouche, David S. Cohen, Greer Donley and Isabelle Aubrun. “Understanding Shield Laws.” In Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, (December 19, 2023). -
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The Public Health Turn in Reproductive Rights
Rachel Rebouche. “The Public Health Turn in Reproductive Rights.” In 18 Washington and Lee Law Review, (October 2, 2023). -
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The Promise of Telehealth for Abortion
Rachel Rebouche, Greer Donley. “The Promise of Telehealth for Abortion.” In DIGITAL HEALTH CARE OUTSIDE OF TRADITIONAL CLINICAL SETTINGS: ETHICAL, LEGAL AND REGULATORY CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES (Cambridge University Press), (February 27, 2023). -
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The New Abortion Battleground
Rachel Rebouche, David S. Cohen and Greer Donley. “The New Abortion Battleground.” In Columbia Law Review, (January 29, 2023). -
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Bargaining about Birth: Surrogacy Contracts During a Pandemic
Rachel Rebouche. “Bargaining about Birth: Surrogacy Contracts During a Pandemic.” In 100 Washington University Law Review, (January 18, 2023).
year-2022
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Rethinking Strategy After Dobbs
Rachel Rebouche, David S. Cohen and Greer Donley. “Rethinking Strategy After Dobbs.” In Stanford Law Review, (October 27, 2022). -
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Gender Inequality in Patent Litigation
Rachel Rebouche, Paul R. Gugliuzza. “Gender Inequality in Patent Litigation.” In 100 North Carolina Law Review, Page 1683 (2022). View online.
year-2021
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Identifying Data for the Empirical Assessment of Law (IDEAL): A Realist Approach to Research Gaps on the Health Effects of Abortion Law – Data Supplement
Rachel Rebouche, Scott Burris, Adrienne Ghorashi, Lindsay Cloud, Patty Skuster and Antonella Lavelanet. “Identifying Data for the Empirical Assessment of Law (IDEAL): A Realist Approach to Research Gaps on the Health Effects of Abortion Law – Data Supplement.” In Identifying data for the empirical assessment of law (IDEAL): A realist approach to research gaps on the health effects of abortion law – data supplement. BMJ Global Health, (July 21, 2021). -
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Assuring Access to Abortion
Rachel Rebouche, Burris, S., de Guia, S., Gable, L., Levin, D.E., Parmet, W.E., Terry, N.P.. “Assuring Access to Abortion.” In Boston: Public Health Law Watch, (April 6, 2021).
year-2020
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Assuring Access to Abortion
Rachel Rebouche, Burris, S., de Guia, S., Gable, L., Levin, D.E., Parmet, W.E., Terry, N.P.. “Assuring Access to Abortion.” In Boston: Public Health Law Watch, (September 21, 2020). -
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Contracting Pregnancy
Rachel Rebouche. “Contracting Pregnancy.” In 105 Iowa Law Review, (June 8, 2020).
year-2018
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A Case Against Collaboration
Rachel Rebouche. “A Case Against Collaboration.” In 76 Md. L. Rev. 547, (September 19, 2018).