 
| Rachel A. Harmon Associate Professor of Law J.D., Yale Law School, 1996 M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1993 M.Sc., London School of Economics, 1992 B.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1990 Rachel Harmon joined the law faculty in the fall of 2006 as an associate professor of law. Her areas of research include criminal law, criminal procedure, and civil rights. Harmon received her law degree at Yale Law School, where she was articles editor for the Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities. Before law school, as a British Marshall Scholar, she earned an M.Sc. in political theory and an M.Sc. in political sociology, both with distinction, from the London School of Economics. After law school, she clerked for Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and Justice Stephen Breyer of the U.S. Supreme Court. She then joined the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, Criminal Section, where she worked from 1998 until 2006 prosecuting hate crimes and official misconduct cases, many of which involved excessive force or sexual abuse by police officers. | |
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