Bella Ryb

Bella is a PhD student in Modern Thought & Literature and a member of the Stanford Law School class of 2024. Her work lies at the intersection of law and the humanities, employing critical and feminist theory to elucidate contemporary legal problems. Her work foregrounds issues of gender, sexuality, and sex, broadly construed. She is also interested in the relationship between ideology and form in the rise and fall of the Critical Legal Studies movement.Prior to beginning her JD/PhD work at Stanford, Bella graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University, with double majors in English and Government and a minor in Theology. While at Georgetown, she was active in politics and campaign organizing. She was a 2021 Gilda Slifka Intern at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute and a 2022 FASPE Fellow. At Stanford, Bella is an EDGE Fellow.Bella served as President of Volume 76 of the Stanford Law Review. In 2026-2027, she will clerk for the Honorable Judge Raymond J. Lohier on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.Outside of her academic work, Bella is a listener of music, reader of modernism, lover of words, rider of horses, and watcher of people.