Biography

Rachel Germany is an attorney and educator with a career focused on criminal law, education, and advocacy for youth. Before teaching undergraduate law at Kline, she taught criminal law at a specialized public high school in New York City. As an attorney, she worked at the Equal Justice Initiative of Alabama, assisting death-sentenced and juvenile life-without-parole clients in appealing their sentences in Alabama, North Carolina, and Florida. She also worked at Advocates for Children of NY, where she advocated for the rights of unhoused public school students.

Professor Germany holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, a J.D. from NYU School of Law, an M.A. from Columbia University, Teachers College, and an M.S. in Criminology from the University of Pennsylvania. She won Penn Criminology's 2024 Thesis Award for her thesis examining the impact of defense counsel on sentencing outcomes for indigent defendants in Kentucky and Georgia.