Rachel Rebouché

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. She is the Faculty Lead of the Sissy Farenthold Reproductive Justice Defense Project, part of the Sissy Farenthold Fund at Texas Law’s Rapoport Center for Human Rights and Justice.

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.