Rachel Rebouché

Fellow, Democratic Institutions

As a Roosevelt Institute fellow, Rebouché will research and write about gender and economics.

Rachel Rebouché is the Kean Family dean and the Peter J. Liacouras professor of law at Temple University Beasley School of Law. 

Rebouché is a leading scholar in reproductive health law, contracts, and family law. She is coauthor of Governance Feminism: An Introduction and an editor of Governance Feminism: Notes from the Field as well as Feminist Judgments: Family Law Opinions Rewritten. In addition, she is an author on two casebooks, Family Law and Contracts: Law in Action. She is the author of dozens of articles in law reviews and peer-edited journals and a frequent contributor to national publications and media outlets in her areas of expertise.

Rebouché has served as a coinvestigator on two grant-funded research projects related to reproductive health, one housed at the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health and another funded by the World Health Organization. She is a faculty fellow at Temple’s Center for Public Health Law Research and a member of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. 

Rebouché received a JD from Harvard Law School, an LLM from Queen’s University Belfast, and a BA 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. Rebouché clerked for Justice Kate O’Regan on the Constitutional Court of South Africa and practiced law in Washington, DC, at the National Partnership for Women & Families and as a Women’s Law and Public Policy Fellow at the National Women’s Law Center.