![]() Prior to joining the law school, Professor López was a clinical teaching fellow and then a visiting assistant clinical professor at Seton Hall University School of Law where she supervised law students on a wide range of cases, including immigration, human rights, death penalty, prisoners’ rights, family law, and civil rights cases, in both domestic and international forums. Recently, she was also appointed to serve on the Board and the Legal Advisory Committee of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. She serves on the Executive Committees of the AALS Sections on International Law, International Human Rights, Civil Rights, and Elder Law and is an executive officer for the AALS Section on International Human Rights. ![]() Additionally, she is a co-founder of the LSA’s Collaborative Research Network (CRN) on Transitional Justice. She was a co-chair of the 2022 Annual Meeting for the American Society for International Law (ASIL) and is the current co-chair of ASIL’s Transitional Justice & Rule of Law Interest Group. She has also testified at hearings before the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Philadelphia City Council. Her work has been featured in The Hill, Americas Quarterly, Opinio Juris, Just Security, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Open Global Rights, and local affiliates of National Public Radio (NPR) and the National Broadcasting Company (NBC). Another article, The Law of Gravity, was selected for the “New Voices in Human Rights and International Law” session at the 2020 Association of American Law Schools (AALS) Annual Meeting. Her most recent article, Redeeming Justice (co-authored with Terrell Carter and Kempis Songster), won the 2022 Law and Society Association (LSA) Article Prize. Her articles have appeared or are forthcoming in well-regarded law journals, such as the Northwestern Law Review, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, NYU Journal of International Law and Politics, and University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law. Her scholarship primarily focuses on state responsibility for mass abuse, transitional justice, and the carceral state. From 2015 to 2019, she served as a Commissioner on the Pennsylvania Sentencing Commission, as an appointee of Governor Tom Wolf. In 2016, Professor López researched transitional justice in Guatemala and Spain as a Fulbright Scholar. Center for International Human Rights at Yale Law School, and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. She has also held visiting fellowships at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge, the Orville H. In 2021, she was named as an inaugural Dean’s Research Fellow. Kline School of Law at Drexel University and the Director of the Andy and Gwen Stern Community Lawyering Clinic. Rachel López is an Associate Professor of Law at the Thomas R.
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