Rachel Lopez
Law prof writing on intl law, human rights, crim law, & participatory law scholarship.
Things I've written:
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- How should legal education respond to AI? Together with 11 UCL Laws colleagues, this paper is our vision for the sector. It's rooted in academic integrity, fundamental competences, and concerns around impacts on learning to learn and intellectual risk taking. (🧵) discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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- What a sweet boy! I’m so very sorry for your loss.
- In this time of polarization and democratic decay, how might legal educators cultivate more citizen lawyers like Kneedler? My latest *now published* in the Minn. L. Rev. argues that we need to better equip our students to facilitate dialogue & contest the law. minnesotalawreview.org/article/crit...
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- Big congratulations!!! We’re so happy to see it!!
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- Looking forward to reading the final version! Congrats!!!
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- So proud of my friend and sister in law Professor Wendy Greene @wendy who is giving the keynote at Duane Morris’s George Boyer Vashon Lecture! Always a treat to grow from her wisdom!
- New paper alert 🚨 Now up @ssrn.bsky.social is "Experiential Expertise: What Lived Experience Can Teach" forthcoming in BU L. Rev. It explores the contours of experiential expertise—what is it? how is it formed? how should it inform the law? Would love any feedback! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- Thank you! Hope it will be helpful to others thinking about these questions! It’s really just a start!
- A joy to engage w/ many bright lights in the field @jocelynsimonson.bsky.social @akapczynski.bsky.social ynski.bsky.social @veenadubal.bsky.social ubal.bsky.social @jasmineeharris.bsky.social eeharris.bsky.social @ytbutler.bsky.social sky.social @bennettcapers.bsky.social @rachelbarkow.bsky.social
- The piece offers experiential expertise as a possible counter-weight to originalism in legal interpretation. It also engages with well-grounded concerns about the “politics of deference” raised by @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social.
- The paper was prompted by a wonderful symposium on Law & Expertise brilliantly organized by @azizaahmed.bsky.social @azohra.bsky.social & Ngozi Okidegbe!
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- So love seeing this news!! Congratulations!!
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- It was a true pleasure to finally meet you!!
- Thank you all for voting! "Teaching Law in an Age of Rising Authoritarianism" is pulling ahead, which is interesting because that was my last choice.
- Hoping for some help... I've received some feedback that "Critical Curriculum Design" does not fully reflect the substance of my forthcoming article. Which title do you like best? Vote here: pollev.com/multiple_cho... Here's a link to the paper & abstract is below. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- Thanks, Ellie! I'm going to give it more thought. I'm really bad at titles too.
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- Yeah I think you’re right! Not sure how to capture all the things though 🫤
- Hoping for some help... I've received some feedback that "Critical Curriculum Design" does not fully reflect the substance of my forthcoming article. Which title do you like best? Vote here: pollev.com/multiple_cho... Here's a link to the paper & abstract is below. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- To vote without registering, just hit "skip for now" Here's the abstract:
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- Precious angel!
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- Yes!! We love to see it!! Come visit us in Philly too!
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- Can’t wait to read this!! Congratulations to you and Taleed!
- Inspired by calls to reimagine the space currently populated by international criminal law, Meg deGuzman's and my essay engages in feminist dreaming—that is, seeks to reimagine accountability as it could be, viewed through a feminist lens. Now up @ssrn.bsky.social: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- Awesome! I just shared it!
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- Thanks, Randle! Hope your event at Widener went well too!
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- Grateful to you for sharing this work with a broader audience! 🫶🏼
- Very excited to read all of these essays!
- I honestly feel so lucky and honored to have our piece alongside the others that are part of this volume!
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- Thank you so much for amplifying this article and message!
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- All of the pieces are fantastic! I feel lucky to have been a just small part of this important project!
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- Thanks so much, Ryan! Looking forward to future conversations soon!
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- That's so nice to hear! Thank you! :)
- Being part of the project was uniquely generative! It pulls from some of the theoretical frameworks I've been exploring in my PLS work. Hope that others will find our contribution a helpful prod in a larger conversation pushing us all to think about justice and accountability more expansively.
- Seeing how quickly law firms are folding to Trump's will makes me believe even more fervently in my latest, Critical Curriculum Design, now forthcoming Minnesota Law Review Headnotes. It explores why law schools are producing lawyers so willing to thwart democracy. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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- I so appreciate you taking a minute to engage with it. I'd love to know what you think if you have a chance!
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- Thanks, Ellie, for elevating this message!
- Drawing insights from two theories of democracy—deliberative democracy and contestatory democracy, it instead proposes “critical curriculum design” as a method for training future lawyers not just to be skilled technicians, but also active participants in sustaining and improving our democracy.
- So excited for all of these contributions to be out in the world!
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- Thank you so much for sharing this with others! Deeply appreciated!
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- You’re awesome! Thanks for sharing!!
- It’s hard to describe what it means to me to see this archive go live at Princeton. It is the culmination of two decades of research starting with my first research grant as an undergrad. library.princeton.edu/about/librar...
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- Thank you!
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- I really hope so! Thank you for supporting this work since its early stages!
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- Thank you so much, Deborah! The archive won’t have been possible without your and P*Law’s support!
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- This means a lot to me, Sameer! Thank you!
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View full threadAn earlier article, Post-Conflict Pluralism, relied on these records to illustrate the evolution of transitional justice in Guatemala, explaining how early on, the courts depicted the defendants as rogue actors, but more recently homed in on high-level officials. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
- This archive would not have been possible without David Hollander, @debpearlstein.bsky.social, Alex Geisinger, Astrid Escobedo, and Brian Crooks, as well as institutional support from Princeton’s Program in Law and Public Policy, the Fulbright Scholar Program, and @drexelklinelaw.bsky.social.
- Our findings reveal a paradox. While prosecutions of state officials are associated with some pro-democracy outcomes, like increased civil society activism and pro-democratic mobilization, they are also associated with greater political polarization and anti-system backlash.
- We can see evidence of this paradox in this country, with some polls finding that the Trump prosecutions did sway how some voters cast their ballots, but also now with President Trump vowing to punish those who sought to convict him.
