Green, Rebecca

Professor of Law and Director, Election Law Program

Areas of Specialization

Election Law; Legislative Redistricting & GIS; Privacy Law; Alternative Dispute Resolution; Contract Law

Representative Professional Activities and Achievements

Rebecca Green is a Professor of Law at William & Mary Law School. She co-directs the Election Law Program, a joint project of the Law School and the National Center for State Courts providing resources for judges deciding election disputes. In 2013, Professor Green co-founded Revive My Vote to assist Virginians with prior felony convictions regain the right to vote. In 2018, Professor Green joined the National Task Force on Election Crises, a cross-partisan group convened to prevent and mitigate a range of election crises. In 2020, Green helped students co-found the Alliance of Students at the Polls (ASAP), a group mobilizing a national network of law students to support U.S. election administration. An elected member of the American Law Institute, Professor Green has served as Associate Reporter for the ALI’s Restatement of the Law, Election Litigation since 2023.

Professor Green’s research interests focus on the intersection of privacy law and elections, most recently in scholarship on FOIA-Flooded Elections, Election Observation, Election Surveillance, and Redistricting Transparency. She also writes about election administration topics including the role of partisanship in election administration and administrative election dispute resolution.

The class of 2016 selected Professor Green to receive the Walter Williams Jr. Memorial Teaching Award awarded annually to one professor by the graduating class. Professor Green received a Reveley Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowship in 2018 and served as the Herbert V. Kelly Professor for Excellence in Teaching from 2019-2021. In 2023, Prof. Green won the Plumeri Award for Faculty Excellence, a university-wide honor.

Since January 2021, Professor Green has served as one of three University Ombuds at the College of William & Mary assisting faculty and staff at William & Mary with workplace conflict resolution.

Professor Green earned her B.A. in Political Science from Connecticut College, an MA in Chinese Legal History from Harvard University, and is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School.