Emily Rock

Emily Rock is a Visiting Lecturer in Law and Associate Research Scholar in Law at Yale Law School. Previously, she worked as an attorney at Koskoff, Koskoff, and Bieder, where she litigated cases involving civil rights, election law, medical negligence, and product liability. She successfully represented pro bono clients against state institutions and helped achieve significant verdicts and settlements for clients in tort liabilities cases. Her motion practice included filings with the trial, appellate, and supreme courts at both the state and federal level. In addition, Rock clerked for the Honorable Alvin Thompson of the District of Connecticut. She is a member of the Connecticut Bar. In law school, Rock served as Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal and student director of the Legal Services for Immigrant Communities Clinic and the Temporary Restraining Order project. She interned with the White House Advisor on Violence Against Women as well as the Ohio Justice and Policy Center. Prior to law school, Rock worked as a paralegal at the national office of Planned Parenthood Federation of America in Washington, D.C. She graduated summa cum laude from Ohio State University, where she earned dual degrees in Political Science and English.