Rachel Anderson teaches Business Organizations, International Business Transactions, and International Law. Professor Anderson’s research interests are in good governance in both the public and private sectors, including in business, international, and poverty law.

Professor Anderson has made outstanding contributions to the law school and its students, to local communities and to the State of Nevada. Her service, teaching, and scholarship epitomize the mission and ethos of the law school – education and impactful service to communities at the local, state, and national levels as well as the law school’s ongoing commitment to substantive and meaningful public service. She is a Member of the American Society of Comparative Law’s Board of Directors, the Nevada Supreme Court’s Access to Justice Commission, and the Nevada Legal Services Board of Directors.

Professor Anderson served as General Counsel for the Office of the Nevada Attorney General from 2019-2021. She was appointed by Nevada’s 34th Attorney General Aaron D. Ford. From 2023-2025, she directed the Poverty Law & Policy Clinic, a Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic.

Professor Anderson is a graduate of Stanford University and the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law. At U.C. Berkeley, she served as Articles Editor on the California Law Review, Executive Editor of the Berkeley Journal of International Law, and Managing Editor of the Berkeley Journal of African-American Law & Policy.

Professor Anderson's contributions have been recognized with numerous awards and honors, including:

• Becoming a permanent part of the poster exhibit of local leaders at the Springs Preserve Annual Black History Month Festival, 2024
• Becoming a permanent part of the poster exhibit of local leaders at the Springs Preserve Annual Black History Month Festival, 2024
• UNLV 2024 Community Engagement Service-Learning Award
• Jefferson Fordham Society Law Office Accomplishment Award, ABA State & Local Government Section (member of recipient team: Nevada Office of the Attorney General Policy Research Team), 2021
• The 5 “Cs” Award, State of Nevada, Office of the Attorney General, 2020 (The 5 Cs are: community engagement, constitutional rights, consumer protection, criminal justice reform, client services.)
• Next-Level Inspiration Award, 2020 Women of the Year, Emerge Nevada, 2020
• Urban Chamber of Commerce, Women in Business Award, 2015
• U.S. Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.), Certificate of Commendation, 2015
• U.S. Senator Dean Heller (R-Nev.), Senatorial Recognition, 2015
• U.S. Congresswoman Dina Titus (D-Nev.), Certificate of Special Congressional Commendation, 2015
• U.S. Representative Joe Heck (R-Nev.), Certificate of Special Recognition, 2015
• U.S. Congressman Crescent Hardy (R-Nev.), Certificate of Congressional Recognition, 2015
• Lieutenant Governor Mark A. Hutchinson (R-Nev.), Certificate of Recognition, 2015
• Lawyers of Color Magazine, Law School Diversity 50 Under 50 List, 2014
• Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Certificate of Appreciation for Elevating the Conversation on Issues of Racial Equity and Social Justice, 2014
• Progressive Leadership Alliance of Nevada, Certificate of Appreciation for Elevating the Conversation on Issues of Racial Equity and Social Justice, 2014
• Law Professors Division of the National Bar Association, Outstanding Service Award, 2013
• State Bar of Nevada, Medal of Justice, 2012
• University of California Berkeley, School of Law, Olin Law & Economics Fellowship, 2003
• University of California Berkeley, School of Law, Justice Ira F. Thomson Fellowship, 2002