Rachel Camp is Co-Director of the Domestic Violence Clinic (DVC) and a Professor from Practice at Georgetown University Law Center. She joined Georgetown’s faculty in 2011 and became co-director of the DVC in 2013. Prior to joining Georgetown, Professor Camp served as a Clinical Teaching Fellow at the University of Baltimore School of Law from 2008-2011. Over the course of her career, she has represented, and has supervised law students representing, hundreds of survivors of intimate partner violence in civil protection order and family law cases. In addition to direct legal representation, Professor Camp has also supervised law students on a range of community education and systemic legal reform projects designed to increase access to justice for survivors. Since 2019, Professor Camp has been on the D.C. Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board. Her scholarship explores the intersection of behavior, emotions, and the process of legal help-seeking, with a particular focus on the experiences of shame and trauma. She also provides training to a range of audiences on the topics of shame and trauma.

Professor Camp served as the Faculty Director of the DC Affordable Law Firm (DCALF) Fellowship program from 2015-2025. The DCALF fellowship places recent graduates from Georgetown University Law Center and the University of the District of Columbia David A. Clarke School of Law at DCALF, a non-profit law firm that provides legal representation to D.C. residents who fall between 200-400% of the federal poverty rate and otherwise may be unable to obtain legal representation in family law, immigration, and probate/estate planning matters.

Beginning in 2025, Professor Camp began serving as Co-Director of Georgetown’s Elements of Clinical Pedagogy Fellowship program. She has written multiple articles and presented on a range of topics relating to clinical pedagogy. She also serves on the Executive Committee of the American Association of Law Schools, Section on Clinical Legal Education.