Her scholarship focuses on the intersection of family law, sexuality and health, and her dissertation explored family conflicts resulting from parents’ heteronormative pressures on children’s sexual orientation and gender identity. Before joining BU, Professor Rachmilovitz served as a fellow at the UCLA's Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy and at the the University of Virginia's Institute of Law, Psychiatry and Public Policy. Additionally, she clerked for the Honorable Judge Eilat Ziskind of the Jerusalem Magistrates' Court. Rachmilovitz holds an S.J.D. (PhD equivalent) from the University of Virginia School of Law, an LL.M. from the UCLA School of Law, and an LL.B. and B.A. from Haifa University in Israel. She is a member of the Israel Bar Association and the LGBT Bar Family Law Institute.