Biography

 

Rebecca Wexler

Rebecca Wexler

  • Alumni
  • United States
  • 2005 MPhil History & Philosophy of Science & Medicine
  • Wolfson College

Rebecca Wexler works on data, technology, and criminal justice. She has published with The Stanford Law Review, The Berkeley Technology Law Journal, The Yale Law Journal Forum, and The Yale Journal of Law & Technology. Her work challenging the trade secret evidentiary privilege in criminal proceedings has appeared in The New York Times, Washington Monthly, Slate, and NPR's The Takeaway. Rebecca is currently a law clerk to the Honorable Katherine Polk Failla of the Southern District of New York, and previously clerked for the Honorable Pierre N. Leval of the Second Circuit. She is a graduate of Harvard College, Cambridge University, and Yale Law School. She has worked as a Yale Public Interest Fellow at The Legal Aid Society's criminal defense practice and a Lawyer-in-Residence at The Data and Society Research Institute. Rebecca will begin as an Assistant Professor of Law at the U.C. Berkeley School of Law in 2019.

Previous Education

Harvard University