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Her clients have included prestigious American law schools and leading Israeli law firms. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e21625ffcd44f3ddf3a4d/1617835586960-2G6CWHNQYZZ5R2PJUWIT/IMG_7717.jpg Home https://www.orlysjd.com/about daily 0.75 2022-05-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e21625ffcd44f3ddf3a4d/1617839037510-7C04U4KKAX4ACGCG9J3Q/2018-05-31+23.54.05.png About https://www.orlysjd.com/curriculum-vitae daily 0.75 2021-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e21625ffcd44f3ddf3a4d/1617842668680-MC3C1VL992776ZS4JHOG/IMG_7732.jpg Curriculum Vitae - Work History USC Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA Adjunct Professor, 2021 Teach "Disability Law" Seminar. Court themes and topics include: employment discrimination, government services, special education, inclusion and equity for people with disabilities. Mentor 16 seminar students on their substantial research and writing paper requirement. Gonzaga University School of Law, Spokane, WA Adjunct Professor, 2020 - Present · Teach “Health law” survey course (Fall 2020, Fall 2021). Course themes and topics include: health system's regulation and structure, doctor-patient relationship, reproductive justice, class- and income-based disparities. Teach "Disability Law" (Summer 2021). Court themes and topics include: employment discrimination, government services, special education, inclusion and equity for people with disabilities. Utilize LexisClassroom LMS. Legal Consultant, Los Angeles, CA 2015-present Consult U.S. and international clients and provide expert opinions on precedential constitutional and human rights cases in areas such as age of consent/ statutory rape laws, family law, wrongful termination, refugee law and equitable social benefits to non-traditional recipients. Guide law school applicants through the application process; strategize, review and edit materials and essays. Draft, translate and edit documents, including books, scholarly articles, legal documents, and marketing materials in the fields of law, economics and social sciences. Initiate, design and manage clients' social media presence; draft and edit blog posts. Eviction Defense Network, Los Angeles, CA Law Clerk, 2018-2019 Consulted with clients on all aspects and stages of their case, including: intake, evidence collection, negotiation for settlements. Responded to discovery requests in unlawful detainer cases. Prepared cases for trials, including interviewing client and drafting of jury documents. Wrote motions, such as motions to set aside judgments, motions to amend answers and motions for attorney's fees. Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg, Gauteng Law Clerk to Justice Johann van der Westhuizen, 2014 Reviewed and proposed disposition of applications for leave to appeal (equivalent to petitions for certiorari). Researched and drafted memoranda in various areas of South African, foreign, and international law, including affirmative action, wrongful life, and detaining defendants with mental disabilities. Assisted judge with drafting majority opinions, concurrences and dissents. Served on different Court committees, including the clerks’ committee on sexual harassment which was tasked with building the South African Judiciary's capacity to combat sexual harassment and the media committee for which drafted and reviewed press releases on hearings and judgments. Boston University School of Law, Boston, MA Visiting Assistant Professor, Health Law Program, 2012-2014 Developed and taught seminars: “Mental Health law” and “Law, Reproduction and Sexual Health”. Produced and presented legal scholarship. Advised students on their notes and significant research papers, and supervised research assistants. Utilized Blackboard LMS. University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA Lecturer, Spring 2010 Taught “Law and Sexuality” seminar, for which designed syllabus and selected reading materials. University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA Research Assistant to Professor Anne Coughlin, 2008-2009 Researched and collected material for Professor Coughlin’s scholarship, “Criminal Law” casebook, and “Family Law” class. Provided feedback on Professor Coughlin’s scholarship. University of Virginia Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy, Charlottesville, VA Mental Health Law Fellow, Spring Semester 2008 Wrote scholarship on legal interventions in parenting by persons with mental disabilities. Advised the Virginia Commission on Mental Health Law Reform's discussions regarding privacy concerns arising from the Virginia Tech Tragedy. Audited University of Virginia School of Law courses: “Children and the Law” and “Feminist Legal Theory”. Learning Rights Law Center, Los Angeles, CA Law Fellow, Fall 2007 Developed the “Rainbow Learning Rights Project,” focusing on access and equity in the public education system for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual or Transgender (LGBT) youth. Drafted a model comprehensive policy to guide educators and students about the legal issues and protections of students regarding actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity. Initiated networking and outreach to other LGBT and youth advocacy organizations, both locally and nationally. UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA Teaching and Research Assistant to Professor Holning Lau, 2006-2007 Compiled legal and interdisciplinary materials for Professor Lau’s scholarship and reading assignments for his “International and Comparative Perspectives on Law and Sexuality” class. Advised Professor Lau’s students on their writing assignments. Provided research assistance and offered substantive feedback on Professor Lau’s scholarship and class presentations. Jerusalem Magistrate Court, Jerusalem, Israel Law Clerk to Judge Eilata Ziskind, 2005-2006 Drafted opinions for judicial decisions on various cases including legal malpractice, breaches of contract, construction torts, and criminal insanity. Briefed parties’ arguments and evidence before hearings and recommended resolutions. Observed numerous hearings including cases of domestic violence, sex offenses, and stalking. Service Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund, Los Angeles, CA Volunteer, 2020 Research and writing on materials such as comments for legislation and court briefs, primarily dealing with LGBTQ equal protection in the context of religious freedoms. Scholarly Publications No Queer Child Left Behind, 51 USF. L. Rev. 203 (2017). Family Assimilation Demands And Sexual Minority Youth, 98 Minn. L. Rev. 1374 (2014). Achieving Due Process through Comprehensive Care for Mentally Disabled Parents: A Less Restrictive Alternative to Family Separation, 12 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 785 (2010). Bringing Down the Bedroom Walls: Emphasizing Substance Over Form in Personalized Abuse, 14 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L.495 (2008). Cited by the Supreme Court of Illinois, Federal Code. Select Speaking Engagements Guest Lecturer at Gonzaga School of Law “Law and Sexuality” course with Dean Kim Pearson (September 21, 2020). Presentation topic: LGBTQ youth. Presentation at Williams Institute Fellows’ Workshop (April 7, 2016). Presentation topic: “Cross-Generational Relationships”. Presentation for Clerks’ Lecture Series, Constitutional Court of South Africa, Johannesburg (October 22, 2014). Presentation topic: “Comparative Perspectives on Marriage Equality (on Israel)”, with Nate Freeman. Panel presentation for BU’s Health Law Association (March 27, 2014). Presentation topic: “Death and Reproduction: Thoughts on Marlise Munoz.” Presentation at faculty workshop, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzlia, Israel (December 12, 2013). Paper title: “Family Assimilation Demands and Sexual Minority Youth.” Presentation at faculty workshop, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel (December 11, 2013). Paper title: “Family Assimilation Demands and Sexual Minority Youth.” Panelist at Law and Society Conference (May 31, 2013). Panel title: “Marriage and Parenting: Queer Legal Perspectives.” Presentation for BU Law’s Women’s Law Association (January 22, 2013). Presentation topic: “Roe v. Wade’s 40 Anniversary: Impacts on Children’s Rights.” With Shoshanna Ehrlich. Presentation for BU Law’s LGBTQ Student Organization, OUTLaw (November 13, 2012). Presentation topic: “LGBT Rights Outside of the United States: What Are They Like And Why Should We Care? (On Israeli Law)” With John Balzano. Panelist at Lavender Law Conference (September 10, 2011). Panel title: “Sex Stereotyping Discrimination in Public Schools.” Presentation for UCLA School of Law’s LGBTQ Student Organization, OUTLaw (March 28, 2011). Presentation topic: “Sexuality and the Discourse of Alliance.” With Michael Boucai. Awards and Fellowships Recipient of Alien of Extraordinary Ability Lawful Permanent Resident status (green card) for achievements as human rights advocate, 2017. Inaugural Recipient: Orrick International Law Fellowship for clerkship at the Constitutional Court of South Africa, 2014. Recipient: UCLA School of Law Dean’s Merit Grant, 2006-2007. Memberships and Professional Associations Israel Bar Association, June 2006. LGBT Family Law Institute, July 2010. Law and Society Association, March 2013. American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics, March 2013. Education The University of Virginia School of Law, Charlottesville, VA S.J.D., May 2012 S.J.D. Dissertation: “Masters of Their Own Destiny: Children’s Identities, Parents’ Assimilation Demands and State Intervention.” My dissertation examines family conflicts stemming from parents’ conformity pressures on children’s identities, with a focus on children’s sexual orientation and gender identity. Essentially, it shows how parents who force their children to change, conceal or downplay their identities and conform to heteronormative standards violate children’s rights to develop and explore their identities. Proposed intervention for high-quality legal and social support for building family's capacity to thrive. The Williams Institute, UCLA School of Law, Los Angeles, CA Visiting Law Fellow, August 2010 – May 2011 Researched and wrote several chapters for S.J.D. dissertation. Gave presentations for the Williams Institute Works-In-Progress series, the Fellows Roundtable, and other events. University of California at Los Angeles School of Law, Los Angeles, CA LL.M. (with Honors), May 2007 Independent study: “Bringing Down the Bedroom Walls: Emphasizing Substance Over Form in Personalized Abuse”. University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel LL.B. (Law) and B.A. (Psychology), October 2004 Languages · English: Native. Hebrew: Native. https://www.orlysjd.com/scholarship daily 0.75 2021-08-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e21625ffcd44f3ddf3a4d/1617858119266-KF9M7BX84QJX1I95MB0B/IMG_7720.jpg Scholarship - No Queer Child Left Behind, 51 USF. L. Rev. 203 (2017). This article employs an interdisciplinary perspective on law and psychology to analyze the gains that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) movement has made toward protecting LGBT students from victimization in schools. LGBT students are highly marginalized, through various violations of their rights and threats to their wellbeing. While efforts to protect LGBT youth from such harms are not new, that the struggles of LGBT youth in education persist indicates these successes, thus far focused on litigation, are insufficient. Additionally, litigation is retroactive and unable to prevent victimization and legal, social and emotional injuries. The article begins with an overview of theories on identity development and victimization to illustrate negative impacts to LGBT youth. Part II analyzes the case law on adults’ claims against workplace discrimination and harassment compared to students’. It concludes courts have extended protection to LGBT students where it is unavailable to LGBT adult employees. Part III theorizes courts are more willing to protect LGBT students in order to ensure children’s healthy identity development and to preserve children’s future rights as citizens. The article suggests that going forward the LGBT rights movement ride the momentum of the recent marriage equality victory to more comprehensively tackle school-based victimization. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e21625ffcd44f3ddf3a4d/1617858233869-3WZZ852HHWTBTVIFY8B0/IMG_7727.jpg Scholarship - Family Assimilation Demands And Sexual Minority Youth, 98 Minn. L. Rev. 1374 (2014). Parents’ assimilation demands compromise children’s healthy identity development and attachments with parents. For LGBT youth in particular, rejection from families heightens their vulnerability to negative health, legal and economic outcomes, yet leaves them under-protected by the legal system. So far, children who have experienced family mistreatment in the form of heteronormative assimilation demands on their sexual orientation or gender identity have been unable to mobilize courts to understand why assimilation demands are harmful and how to protect children from such mistreatment. Thus assimilation demands that undermine children’s identities and are harmful to their wellbeing should be recognized as an additional exception to parental rights. Rather than suggesting assimilation demands are a form of emotional abuse, this Article recommends a new framework – family in need of services – that could empower children to seek state intervention that would help families support LGBT youth and facilitate family cohesion. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e21625ffcd44f3ddf3a4d/1620777850359-T913MSYUIW351GXKPW8H/tempImageeZhUhp.gif Scholarship - Achieving Due Process through Comprehensive Care for Mentally Disabled Parents: A Less Restrictive Alternative to Family Separation, 12 U. Pa. J. Const. L. 785 (2010). Many commentators have opined on mental disability's impact on children. Yet rarely have scholars addressed how a parent's mental disabilities impact children. Particularly scarce is the examination of the constitutionality of legal frameworks concerning parents with mental disabilities and their children. This article focuses on the constitutionality of family separation due to parental mental illness and proposes to incorporate into the law a well-established and highly successful treatment plan as an alternative to family separation. With the decrease of hospitalizations, the number of parents with mental disabilities has grown. These parents are at a heightened risk of losing custody of their children. The solution the law provides to families struggling with parental mental illness (that is, family separation by removing children or terminating parental rights) is highly troubling. Child protection is a suspect justification for such severe infringement because narrow concepts of child protection do not consider the need to protect children from harms caused in the welfare system. As such, family separation jeopardizes substantive due process rights of families both as individuals and as a collective. Separating children from parents without exploring an alternative that has a higher potential for success is an overly restrictive infringement on family integrity. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e21625ffcd44f3ddf3a4d/1620777971495-G2XJB1YXF486CJH2WDHP/tempImagexihEFP.gif Scholarship - Bringing Down the Bedroom Walls: Emphasizing Substance Over Form in Personalized Abuse, 14 Wm. & Mary J. Women & L.495 (2008). Cited by the Supreme Court of Illinois and Federal statute. This article explores what makes domestic violence special and whether privileging certain abusive relationships, and thus certain victims, over others is justified. It argues that abuse in familial, romantic or cohabitating relationships is not necessarily any more harmful than abuse in other personal relationships; that harm from abuse should be identified through substantive criteria for which marriage or cohabitation should not be proxies; and that heightened protections should be extended accordingly. The article pinpoints the criteria that justify distinguishing domestic violence from other forms of violence and examines how federal and state domestic violence law defines protected victims and relationship. An analysis of these statues uncovers their problematic underinclusiveness on one hand and their overinclusiveness, on the other. In analyzing relationships and victims excluded from protection, the article shows that the criteria presented as distinguishing domestic violence exist in excluded relationships and victims, as well. The article challenges the exclusion of these relationships and victims by proposing a "personalized abuse" framework which abandons the use of categories for identifying victims and instead employs the criteria discussed earlier to create a substantive formula that focuses on the relationship itself to identify victims in need of legal recourse. The personalized abuse framework targets relationships in which abuse is likely cyclical and repetitive and most harmful psychologically to the victim, as relationships that abuse law should cover. 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This course introduces students to the law governing issues of health, and the relationship between law and medicine. The course will be divided into three primary parts. The first part will review the structure and regulation of health care provision in the United States. We will consider whether the current system adequately serves all stakeholders and meets the needs for equitable access to care. We will then discuss possible avenues for reform. The second part will explore the role of the law in shaping and monitoring the relationship between health care professionals and patients from contracts and torts perspectives. The third part will cover substantive topics in law and health such as public health, reproduction and birth, medically assisted death and others. These topics are illustrative of the concerns of health law, rather than cover the scope of the field. The materials, which comprise of a casebook and supplemental sources, enables students to develop a fuller appreciation of the intricacies of the legal and regulatory structure affecting provision of health care and the contemporary concerns in particular fields within health care. Students will be required to participate in online discussions and write four reaction papers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/606e21625ffcd44f3ddf3a4d/1617866340162-96AXC9KAOQX77BL2UZU4/IMG_1200.jpg Services - Teaching - Sexuality and the Law This seminar explores the role of the law in constructing identity and conduct around sexuality, particularly for women, children and sexual minorities. The course covers a variety of legal issues at the forefront of the feminist and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans and queer) rights movements. These include criminalization of sexual activity, discrimination and harassment in employment and education, and family relationships, as well as distinct challenges to the trans community and to children. Discussions are framed by both theoretical approaches to sexuality and sexual identity and the politics of LGBTQ advocacy work. We consider the ways in which assumptions about morality, gender, and race shape the law’s approach to sexuality; examine the relationship between feminism, sexual orientation and gender identity, and sexual rights; and re-evaluate the goals and strategies of the LGBT movement. 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For this case, she reviewed the breadth and depth of jurisprudence and scholarship in the field and produced memoranda as to the current state of the law, the viability of different arguments attacking the statutory regime’s constitutionality, and devising strategies as to presenting arguments for striking down the statute and fending off opposing arguments from the state wishing to uphold it. She has also volunteered with national LGBTQ rights organization, Lambda Legal, primarily in terms of the organization’s advocacy for LGBTQ persons equal protection in the context of religious freedoms. There, working closely with the organization’s law and policy director, Jenny Pizer, Dr. Rachmilovitz researched and wrote materials such as court briefs and comments for legislation proposed by the Trump Administration and opposed by Lambda Legal. Dr. Rachmilovitz has experience in practical case management as well, that gives her the tools to consult along the entire life-cycle of the case. As a law clerk in a California legal services non-profit, she worked closely with clients on intake, evidence collection, and negotiation for settlements. Dr. Rachmilovitz has spent much of her time there responding to discovery requests in unlawful detainer cases; preparing cases for trials, including interviewing client and drafting of jury documents; and writing motions, such as motions to set aside judgments, motions to amend answers and motions for attorney's fees. Dr. Rachmilovitz is also available for legal or cultural consulting on creative writing projects, screenplays, theater or any artistic endeavor that may be advanced by her unique journey as a feminist lawyer, immigrant, or any other aspects of her lived- and professional experience.