Rebecca Wexler is an Assistant Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, and Faculty Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology. Her teaching and research focus on data, technology, and secrecy in the criminal legal system. Her scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in the Harvard Law Review, Stanford Law Review, Yale Law Journal Forum, NYU Law Review, UCLA Law Review, Texas Law Review, Vanderbilt Law Review, and Berkeley Technology Law Journal, as well as in peer-reviewed computer science publications.
Wexler served as senior policy advisor at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy during the spring of 2023. She has testified before the House Judiciary Committee for the United States Congress. Her scholarly theories have twice been proposed for codification into federal law and litigated in multiple courts, including a cert petition to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her article "Privacy as Privilege" received the Privacy Law Scholars’ Conference 2020 Reidenberg-Kerr Award for overall merit for a paper by an untenured faculty member, and was named a 2021 “Must Read” article by the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. Her Op-Eds have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Los Angeles Times, among other outlets, and her work has been featured on NPR, among other media venues.
Wexler holds a JD from Yale Law School, an MPhil from Cambridge University where she was a Gates Scholar, and a BA from Harvard College. She clerked for Judge Pierre N. Leval on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and for Judge Katherine Polk Failla on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.