Author: Dean Rachel Rebouché

A Message from Outgoing Dean Rachel Rebouchè

Content: Editor’s note: The following message was shared by outgoing dean Rachel Rebouchè with alumni and friends of Temple Law School as she steps down from the deanship to join the faculty at University of Texas – Austin School of Law.   Dear Alumni and Friends, As many of you may know, I will step down as Dean of Temple University Beasley School of Law at the end of the summer and join the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin this fall. Although this was a challenging decision to make, I am excited and confident about the future because Temple Law is thriving. Our faculty, administration and staff have reached many milestones over the past several years. The law school celebrated an over 90% bar passage rate for first-time test takers, the highest in more than a decade, and the highest employment rates for new graduates two years in a row; we hired 16 new faculty members; and our development efforts have secured an endowed deanship and multiple new scholarships enabling Temple Law …

Despite Historic Indictment, Doctors Will Keep Mailing Abortion Pills Across State Lines

Despite Historic Indictment, Doctors Will Keep Mailing Abortion Pills Across State Lines Dean Rachel Rebouché and collaborators David Cohen and Greer Donley helped to craft so-called shield laws that protect abortion care providers in safe states from prosecution in ban states. Efforts by Louisiana to prosecute a New York doctor “probably put New York and Louisiana in real conflict, potentially a conflict that the Supreme Court is going to have to decide,” she says.

Thousands of people still get abortions in states with bans. This Texas bill aims to stop it.

Texas legislators have moved a step closer to passing legislation that would allow civil lawsuits to proceed against out-of-state abortion care providers. Dean Rachel Rebouché says the bill is similar to a pre-Dobbs statute that banned abortion at six weeks: “This is Texas legislators trying the same strategy to try to circumvent a federal constitutional challenge.”

In Mass., volunteers pack thousands of abortion pills destined for states with bans

Abortion advocates in states with so-called shield laws are finding ways to get mifepristone to pregnant people in states with abortion bans, which in turn are seeking ways to extradite and prosecute medication providers. As the stakes continue to rise, Dean Rebouché notes that “This is a conflict we might have expected to find ourselves in, because the abortion rate is higher now than before the Supreme Court overturned Roe.”

Emboldened Anti-Abortion Faction Wants Women Who Have Abortions To Face Criminal Charges

Emboldened Anti-Abortion Faction Wants Women Who Have Abortions To Face Criminal Charges A fringe group calling for women who have abortions to be prosecuted is gaining influence. “With the reversal of Roe v. Wade, now states can pass the most severe abortion bans, which has galvanized the anti-abortion movement as a whole, including this part of it,” said Dean Rachel Rebouche. “Certainly the fall of Roe has brought abortion abolitionists one step closer to what they want – banning abortion nationwide.”

After historic indictment, doctors will keep mailing abortion pills over state lines

After historic indictment, doctors will keep mailing abortion pills over state lines New York and Louisiana are engaged in an escalating legal battle over “shield laws” intended to protect abortion care providers. Dean Rebouché, who helped draft the first such law, explains their purpose and why the interstate dispute could end up before the Supreme Court.

Key court hearing as Alabama threatens prosecutions over abortion

Key court hearing as Alabama threatens prosecutions over abortion support. Alabama’s attorney general has threatened to prosecute groups that help pregnant people travel to other states for abortion care. Dean Rebouché sees the threats as “a real encroachment on what we take for granted about how states treat each other – but also within the state, that the state will turn its law enforcement power against somebody who has done something that is not illegal.”