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1 REBECCA L. RAUSCH th Avenue, Sullivan Hall, Seattle, WA ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS, Seattle, WA Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, June 2012 May 2013 Teaching Fellow, August 2011 May 2012 Courses Taught: Health Law I (Spring 2012, Fall 2012); Health Law II (Spring 2013); Health Law Independent Study (Spring 2013); Civil Procedure (Fall 2011, co-taught with Dean Mark Niles). Health law topics covered include Medicare/Medicaid, private insurance structures and regulation, provider organizational structures, tax exemption, fraud and abuse, kickbacks, doctor-patient relationship formations, reproductive health, physician aid in dying, licensing and state regulatory compliance, medical malpractice, HIPAA/HITECH and related privacy requirements, CONs, EMTALA, and numerous provisions of the Affordable Care Act. Additional Teaching Interests: Administrative Law, Torts, Contracts, Property, Professional Responsibility, Remedies, Feminist Legal Theory Primary Research Interests: health care regulation, bioethics, disparities in health access and quality, reproductive health and justice, feminist legal theory, queer legal theory Service: Faculty Advisor, Law Students for Reproductive Justice ( ), Boston, MA Adjunct Professor of Law, LSSC Research and Writing Program, August 2009 May 2010 (P/T) Advising Attorney, LSSC Social Justice Program, August 2005 May 2006 (P/T) Taught legal research and writing. Counseled and advised student law office regarding pro bono project on proposed Pharmacy Benefit Manager and price regulation legislation. EDUCATION University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall), Berkeley, CA Master of Laws, May 2011 (Supervisor: Stephen D. Sugarman) Academic Honors: High Honors Thesis; Honors or High Honors in all coursework Selected Service: The Berkeley Journal of Gender, Law & Justice; Student Organization for Advanced Legal Studies (President), Boston, MA Juris Doctor, May 2004 Academic Honors: Legal Writing Teaching Assistant (Winter ) (competitively selected); Research Assistant, Professor Susan Maze-Rothstein (Winter );

II (Spring 2013); Health Law Independent Study (Spring 2013); Civil Procedure (Fall 2011, co-taught with Dean Mark Niles).

2 Rebecca L. Rausch, Page 2 Law, Culture, and Difference [now LSSC Social Justice] Program Teaching Facilitator (Fall 2002, Fall 2003) (competitively selected); Civil Procedure Teaching Assistant, Professor Lucy Williams (Fall 2002) Selected Service: Jewish Law Students Association, Women s Law Caucus Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Bachelor of Arts, high honors, American Studies, Women s Studies Certificate, May 2001 Academic Honors: Presidential Scholar; Dean s List Thesis: Freedom of Choice? The Dual Victimization of Certain Rape Survivors Seeking Abortions Selected Service: Resident Adviser, Hillel Executive Board Member, Admissions Office Volunteer, Director/Choreographer/Dancer for B yachad Israeli Dance Troupe PUBLICATIONS A Feminist Approach to Post-Obamacare Health Reform (work in progress to be submitted for publication in March 2013). Health Cover(age)ing, 90 NEB. L. REV. 920 (2012). Ranked in SSRN Top Ten Download Lists for Health and Employment Discrimination. Reframing Roe: Property over Privacy, 27 BERKELEY J. GENDER L. & JUST. 28 (2012). Ranked in SSRN Top Ten Download Lists for Constitutional Claims and Reproductive Rights. Mass. Companies Face New Privacy Obligations, NEW ENGLAND IN HOUSE (January 2008). New Massachusetts Law Imposes Records Requirements for All Organizations, Including Those Not Subject to HIPAA, 4 BOSTON HEALTH LAW REPORTER 3 (Winter 2008). SELECTED PRESENTATIONS A Feminist Approach to Post-Obamacare Health Reform, Albany Law School, February 1-2, 2013, Northeast Regional Junior Faculty Scholarship and Teaching Development Workshop (panelist) The State of Reproductive Health Care for Poor Women (in Ten Minutes or Less), Seattle University School of Law, Oct. 8, 2012, Social Justice Monday Lecture Series (invited panelist) A Feminist Approach to a Post-Obamacare America, University of Baltimore School of Law, March 1-2, 2012, Fifth Annual Feminist Legal Theory Conference (competitively selected panelist) Reframing Roe: Property over Privacy,, February 7, 2012, Family Formation and Recognition Seminar (invited guest lecturer)

Williams (Fall 2002) Selected Service: Jewish Law Students Association, Women s Law Caucus Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Bachelor of Arts, high honors, American Studies, Women s Studies

3 Rebecca L. Rausch, Page 3 Reframing Roe: Property over Privacy, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, July 16, 2011, Workshop on Teaching and Research in Reproductive Justice (presenter) New Massachusetts Data Security Breach Law: What Employers & Their Counsel Need to Know, Boston Bar Association, December 4, 2007, Labor & Employment Law Section and Privacy Law Committee Meeting (invited panelist) MEDIA Karen Sloan, Cattle Call for Law Professors, NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL, Oct. 8, 2012 (quoted) LAW PRACTICE EXPERIENCE Krokidas & Bluestein LLP, Boston, MA Health Care Associate, March 2007 June 2010 Advised health care providers concerning state and federal statutory and regulatory compliance, corporate, tax, and employment issues; represented health clients in administrative and court proceedings. Created and managed data privacy and security practice; advised complex litigation teams on e-discovery strategy and implementation. Donovan Hatem LLP, Boston, MA Litigation Associate, October 2004 February 2007 Law Clerk, March May 2004 Represented professional design and legal practitioners in all aspects of simple and complex civil defense litigation. Point associate for Big Dig litigation and federal investigations. Wiggins, Childs, Quinn & Pantazis, P.C., Washington, D.C. Summer Associate (offer extended), May August 2003 Prescription Access Litigation Project, Community Catalyst, Boston, MA Legal Intern, December 2002 February 2003 (F/T), March May 2003 (P/T) Massachusetts Appeals Court, Boston, MA Judicial Intern to the Honorable Kenneth Laurence, May August 2002 SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND CIVIC INVOLVEMENT Member, The American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics (2012 Present) Singer, Seattle Symphony Chorale (2012 Present) Member, American Bar Association ( , 2012 Present) Singer/Soloist, Seattle Jewish Chorale ( )

Massachusetts Data Security Breach Law: What Employers & Their Counsel Need to Know, Boston Bar Association, December 4, 2007, Labor & Employment Law Section and Privacy Law Committee Meeting

4 Rebecca L. Rausch, Page 4 Inaugural Member, Workshop on Teaching and Scholarship in Reproductive Rights and Justice, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law ( ) Nonprofit Director, Israel Folkdance Festival of Boston, Inc. ( ) Trip Leader, Just Dance Birthright Israel (July 2010) Founding Director, Israeli Dance Program, Temple Emanuel of Newton, MA ( ) Scholar Mentor, Young Professionals Committee Member, The Posse Foundation, ( ) Massachusetts (state, 2004; federal, 2005) New York (state, 2005) BAR ADMISSIONS

Berkeley, School of Law (2011 2012) Nonprofit Director, Israel Folkdance Festival of Boston, Inc.

5 Rebecca L. Rausch, Page 5 REFERENCES Stephen D. Sugarman Roger J. Traynor Professor of Law ssugarman@law.berkeley.edu Kathryn Abrams Herma Hill Kay Distinguished Professor of Law krabrams@law.berkeley.edu Kristin Luker Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology kluker@law.berkeley.edu Mark C. Niles Dean and Professor of Law nilesm@seattleu.edu John B. Kirkwood Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Strategic Planning and Mission kirkwoj@seattleu.edu Wendy E. Parmet George J. and Kathleen Waters Matthews Distinguished University Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs w.parmet@neu.edu Lucy A. Williams Professor of Law lu.williams@neu.edu Susan A. Maze-Rothstein Professor and Director, LSSC Social Justice Program 65 Forsyth Street, 310DK Boston, MA s.maze-rothstein@neu.edu Richard M. Bluestein Managing Partner Krokidas & Bluestein LLP rbluestein@kb-law.com Dean Spade Associate Professor of Law spaded@seattleu.edu

edu Kristin Luker Elizabeth Josselyn Boalt Professor of Law and Professor of Sociology 510-643-8332 kluker@law.berkeley.edu Mark C. Niles Dean and Professor of Law 206-398-4041 nilesm@seattleu.

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