Rachel López

Temple University Beasley School of Law

James E. Beasley Professor of Law

1719 N. Broad Street

Philadelphia, PA 19122

United States

Princeton University - Program in Law & Public Policy

Wallace Hall

Princeton, NJ 08544

United States

  • Temple University Beasley School of Law

  • Princeton University - Program in Law & Public Policy

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1.

Redeeming Justice

Redeeming Justice, 116 NW. U. L. REV. 315 (2021).
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 13 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2022
Terrell Carter, Rachel López and Kempis Songster
Villanova University, Temple University Beasley School of Law and Amistad Law Project
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LWOP, Eighth Amendment, cruel and unusual punishment, human dignity, human rights law, European Court of Human Rights, Vinter, Immanuel Kant, Hans Kelsen, life sentence, redemption, right to hope, Miller v. Alabama

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Black Guilt, White Guilt at the International Criminal Court

Race and National Security 211 (Matiangai Sirleaf ed., 2023)
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 06 Oct 2022 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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International Criminal Court, Atrocity, Structural Racism, Anti-Black Bias, and United Nations Security Council

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Participatory Law Scholarship

Princeton University Program in Law & Public Affairs Research Paper, Forthcoming, Columbia Law Review, Vol. 123, 2023
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 09 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 25 Apr 2024
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Participatory Action Research, Critical Race Studies, Feminist Studies, Social Movements, Movement Law, Friere, Community-based Participatory Research, Scholactivism

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Unentitled: The Power of Designation in the Legal Academy

Unentitled: The Power of Designation in the Legal Academy, 73 RUTGERS L. REV. 923 (2021).
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 08 Jun 2021 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2022
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Legal Academy, Higher Education, Legal Education, Status, Gender Equality, Workplace Equity, Legal Writing, Academic Support, Law Library, Clinical Education

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The (Re)Collection of Memory after Mass Atrocity and the Dilemma for Transitional Justice

48 N.Y.U. J. Int’l L. & Pol. 799 (2015)
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 09 Mar 2014 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2018
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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collective memory, mass atrocity, human rights, international law, public international law, transitional justice

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Critical Curriculum Design: Teaching Law in an Age of Rising Authoritarianism

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 17 Dec 2024 Last Revised: 06 May 2025
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Democracy, Citizenship, Critical Curriculum Design, Facilitation, Legal Education, Pedagogy, Legal Ethics, Critical Legal Studies

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If Lived Experience Could Speak: A Method for Repairing Epistemic Violence in Law & The Legal Academy 

Princeton University Program in Law & Public Affairs Research Paper, Minnesota Law Review, Forthcoming, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-26
Number of pages: 74 Posted: 27 Mar 2024 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2024
Terrell Carter and Rachel López
Villanova University and Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Participatory Law Scholarship; Epistemic Violence, Epistemic Injustice, Legal Silencing, Academic Silencing, Spivak, Fricker

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Aggression in Law’s Clothing: Does Might Still Make Right?

Rachel López, Aggression in Law’s Clothing, 38 MD. J. INT’L L. 57 (2024).
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 26 Jan 2023 Last Revised: 12 Feb 2024
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Crime of Aggression, International Criminal Law, Might Makes Right, Russia, Ukraine

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Is International Criminal Law Feminist?

Princeton University Program in Law & Public Affairs Research Paper, Oxford Handbook on Women and International Law, Forthcoming, Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-09
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 22 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 14 May 2024
Margaret M. deGuzman and Rachel López
Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law and Temple University Beasley School of Law
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feminist, equality, international criminal law, redemptive, rejectionist, women’s rights

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The Law of Gravity

The Law of Gravity, 58 COLUM. J. TRANSNAT’L L. 565 (2020).
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 24 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Grave Violations, Gross, Systematic, Erga Omnes, Jus Cogens, International Criminal Law, Human Rights Law, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, United Nations, Proportionality, Inter-American Court, European Court

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The Unusual Cruelty of Nursing Homes Behind Bars

The Unusual Cruelty of Nursing Homes Behind Bars, 32 Fed. Sent’g Rep. 264 (2020).
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 24 Apr 2020 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2022
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Eighth Amendment, life without the possibility of parole, LWOP, geriatric, Elder Law, Madison v. Alabama, Miller v. Alabama, life sentence, dementia, neurodegenerative disease, evolving standards of decency, barbaric, torture

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Post-Conflict Pluralism

Post-Conflict Pluralism, 39 U. PA. J. INT’L L. 749 (2018)., Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Research Paper No. 2017-W-02
Number of pages: 76 Posted: 27 Feb 2017 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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transitional justice, human rights, Guatemala, universal jurisdiction, post-conflict justice, Sepur Zarco, Rios Montt, truth commissions, genocide, legal pluralism

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Designing a Clinic Model for a Restorative Community Justice Partnership

48 Wash. U. J. L. & Pol’y 139 (2015)
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 05 Oct 2015 Last Revised: 11 May 2018
Susan L. Brooks and Rachel López
Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law and Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Clinic, Restorative Justice, Deliberative Democracy, clinical pedagogy, strengths based approach

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The Paradox of Punishing for a Democratic Future

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 04 Mar 2025 Last Revised: 05 Mar 2025
Rachel López and Geoff Dancy
Temple University Beasley School of Law and University of Toronto
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Presidential Immunity, Transitional Justice, Human Rights, Corruption, Criminal Law, Democracy, Guatemala, Genocide, Amnesty

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Regarding the Other Death Penalty

Princeton University Program in Law & Public Affairs Research Paper, Columbia Law Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 14 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 15 Dec 2024
Kempis Songster, Terrell Carter and Rachel López
Amistad Law Project, Villanova University and Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Participatory Law Scholarship, Life without Parole, Death by Incarceration, Death Penalty, International Criminal Law

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The Judicial Expansion of American Exceptionalism

The Judicial Expansion of American Exceptionalism, 6 DUKE FORUM ON LAW & SOCIAL CHANGE 1(2014). , Drexel University School of Law Research Paper No. 2014-A-04
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Jul 2014 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2018
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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responsibility to protect, human rights, Kiobel, Alien Tort Statute, universal jurisdiction, international law, political question doctrine, principle of complementarity, American Exceptionalism, presumption against extraterritoriality

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The Duty to Refrain: A Theory of State Accomplice Liability for Grave Crimes

The Duty to Refrain: A Theory of State Accomplice Liability for Grave Crimes, 97 Neb. L. Rev. 120 (2018), Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law Research Paper No. 2018-A-08
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 13 Sep 2018 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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State Complicity, Uniting for Peace Resolution, State Responsibility, Responsibility to Protect, R2P, Grave Crimes, Genocide, Crimes Against Humanity, Jus Cogens, Customary International Law, Human Rights, Humanitarian Law, Arms Trade Treaty, Yemen, Syria, International Law Commission

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Legalizing Collective Remembrance after Mass Atrocities

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 16 Jul 2019
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Mass Atrocity, Human Rights, Collective Memory, Memorialization, Transitional Justice, Maurice Halbwachs, Emile Durkheim

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The Heart and Heartbreak of International Law

Temple International & Comparative Law Journal (forthcoming) , Temple University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2024-31
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 02 May 2024 Last Revised: 30 Oct 2024
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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TWAIL, International Court of Justice, Black Internationalism, Global South, TWAIL, Public International Law, Decolonization

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Foreword to Drexel Law Review Symposium on Transitional Justice

Foreword, 11 Drexel L. Rev. 825 (2019)
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 25 Feb 2020 Last Revised: 21 Sep 2022
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Transitional Justice, Human Rights, Memorialization, Collective Memory, Guatemala, South Africa, Post-Conflict Justice, Universal Jurisdiction, Foreign Courts

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Participatory Law Scholarship as Demosprudence

Virginia Law Review, Vol. 110, No. 298–312, 2024
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 21 Nov 2024
Kempis Songster, Rachel López and Gerald Torres
Amistad Law Project, Temple University Beasley School of Law and Yale Law School
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Participatory Law Scholarship, Demosprudence, Democracy, Human Rights, Life without Parole, Death by Incarceration, United Nations, Right to Redemption

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Experiential Expertise in Law: What Lived Experience Can Teach

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 06 May 2025 Last Revised: 07 May 2025
Rachel López
Temple University Beasley School of Law
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Feminist Dreams of Justice

Number of pages: 5 Posted: 21 Apr 2025
Rachel López and Margaret M. deGuzman
Temple University Beasley School of Law and Temple University - James E. Beasley School of Law
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