Rachel N. Morrison

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Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Administrative State Accountability Project. An attorney, her legal and policy work focuses on religious liberty, health care rights of conscience, the right to life, nondiscrimination, and civil rights.

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Rachel N. Morrison is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where she directs EPPC’s Administrative State Accountability Project. An attorney, her legal and policy work focuses on religious liberty, health care rights of conscience, the right to life, nondiscrimination, and civil rights.

Before joining EPPC, Ms. Morrison served as an Attorney Advisor and Special Assistant to General Counsel Sharon Fast Gustafson at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), where she focused on religious discrimination issues and was a member of the General Counsel’s Religious Discrimination Work Group. Before that, she served as Litigation Counsel for Americans United for Life and as a Constitutional Law Fellow at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, defending the right to life and religious freedom for all. She also clerked on the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.

Ms. Morrison’s legal analysis has been published in the Seton Hall Law Review, the Pepperdine Law Review, and the Ave Maria Law Review, as well as various other print media outlets.

Ms. Morrison earned her J.D., magna cum laude, from the Pepperdine University School of Law, where she was elected to the Order of the Coif and served as an editor for the Pepperdine Law Review and the Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy. She received her B.A. in Mathematics and Speech Communication, summa cum laude, from Whitworth University (Spokane, WA). She is a member of the District of Columbia and the Washington State bars.

Ms. Morrison lives with her husband and daughter in Virginia.

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Rachel Morrison discusses Presidential Powers and Abortion

October 31, 2024 | University of St. Thomas

Rachel N. Morrison on Religious Freedom and the Administrative State

June 20, 2024 | Religious Freedom Annual Review

Rachel Morrison answers “What is the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act?”

June 11, 2024 | Regulatory Transparency Project

Rachel Morrison gives a Legal Update of Gender Issues in the United States

April 20, 2024 | Bhutan Gender Dysphoria Symposium

Rachel Morrison on Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

September 15, 2023 | EWTN Pro-Life Weekly

On September 15, 2022, Fellow Rachel Morrison appeared on EWTN Pro-Life Weekly to discuss the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and…

Rachel Morrison on her Legal Career

August 10, 2023 | Blackstone Legal Fellowship

In August 2023, Fellow Rachel N. Morrison was interviewed by the Blackstone Legal Fellowship about her experience as an alumni…

AUDIO: Case before the US Supreme Court on Religious Accommodation in the Workplace w/ Rachel Morrison

March 10, 2023 | Issues, Etc.

On March 10, 2023, Issues, Etc. hosted EPPC’s Rachel Morrison to talk about the case before the US Supreme Court…

AUDIO: LA Catholic Morning March 9, 2023 w/ AC Wimmer, John Sharp, Rachel Morrison

March 9, 2023 | Archangel Radio

Rachel Morrison, who works with the Ethics and Public Policy Center, joins the LA Catholic Morning show on Archangel Radio…