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Rachel Bayefsky
University of Virginia School of Law
Expertise
- Federal Courts
- Constitutional Law
- Civil Procedure
- Legal Theory
Jurisdictions Admitted to Practice
- District of Columbia
- District of Columbia Bar
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- New York
- New York State Office of Court Administration
- ID Number: 5426481
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- 2nd Circuit
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- 9th Circuit
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- D.C. Circuit
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- Federal Circuit
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Professional Experience
- Consultant
- Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP
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- Counsel (Jan.–May 2021); Associate (2019–2020)
- Associate Professor of Law
- University of Virginia School of Law
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- Law Clerk to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- U.S. Supreme Court
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- Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
- Harvard Law School
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- Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law
- Harvard Law School
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- Law Clerk to Chief Judge Robert A. Katzmann
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
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- Law Clerk to Judge Jed S. Rakoff
- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York
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Education
- University of Oxford
- D.Phil. in Politics, 2013; M.Sc. in Political Theory, 2010; D.Phil. Thesis: Humiliation and Liberal Democratic Politics; M.Sc. Thesis: The Concepts of Dignity and Honor in Kant’s Philosophy
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- Yale Law School
- J.D. (2015)
- Honors: • Israel H. Peres Prize (best note or comment appearing in the Yale Law Journal) • Ambrose Gherini Prize (award for paper on international environmental law)
- Activities: Editor-in-Chief, Yale Law Journal • Temporary Restraining Order Project (assistance with domestic violence claims)
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- Yale University
- B.A. (2009) | Ethics, Politics & Economics
- Honors: Summa cum laude; Phi Beta Kappa
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Professional Associations
- Yale Law Women
- Mentor
- Current
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- Law Clerks for Diversity
- Mentor
- Current
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- District of Columbia Bar
- Member
- Current
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- New York State Bar
- Member
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