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Rebecca Hansen

Rebecca Hansen

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Rebecca Hansen Background Pattern

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Becca Hansen is a litigation associate in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson.

Prior to joining the firm, Becca served as a law clerk to Judge Michelle T. Friedland of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and Judge Vince G. Chhabria of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. She also externed for the Honorable Cheryl Ann Krause of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and at the Federal Programs branch of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Becca earned her J.D. with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School. She was elected to the Order of the Coif and was selected as a Kirkland & Ellis Scholar and a David M. Rubenstein Scholar. During law school, she served as a comments editor for the University of Chicago Law Review, participated in the law school’s Supreme Court & Appellate Clinic and was a finalist in the Hinton Moot Court competition.

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Education
University of Chicago Law School (J.D., 2022) high honors
Brown University (B.A., 2017)
Clerkships
Judge Michelle T. Friedland, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2023-2024
Judge Vince Chhabria, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, 2022-2023
Admissions
California

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Publications

  • “Can Procedure Take?” University of Chicago Law Review, Vol. 88, Rev. 8, 2021
  • “Towards Principled Background Principles in Takings Law,” (co-author),Texas A&M Law Review, Vol. 10, Rev. 427, 2023