Dr. Rebecca Wexler

Biography

Rebecca Wexler is the Alfred W. Bressler Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. She received her J.D. from Yale Law School in 2016, an M.Phil. from Cambridge University in 2006, and an A.B. from Harvard College in 2005. Her academic interests include Criminal Justice and Intellectual Property Technology. Before joining the faculty at Columbia Law, she was the Hoessel-Armstrong Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law, where she also served as the faculty co-director of the Center for Law & Technology and the Center for Criminal Law & Justice. Wexler has held various positions, including Senior Policy Advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and has clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, as well as Judge Katherine Polk Failla on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Additionally, she was a lawyer-in-residence at the Data & Society Research Institute and has worked as a legal intern at the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Her experience also includes serving as a Yale public interest fellow at the Legal Aid Society's Criminal Defense Practice.

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