Rachel Bayefsky is Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law. Prior to joining the faculty, she clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Supreme Court, and for federal appellate and trial courts. Bayefsky also taught at Harvard Law School as a Climenko Fellow and worked as a litigator in Washington, D.C. She earned her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal, and her D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where she studied as a Rhodes Scholar.