Rachel Moran
Rachel F. Moran (born circa 1956, Kansas City, Missouri) is the Dean of UCLA School of Law, and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law.[1] She was previously a founding faculty member at UC Irvine School of Law (2008-2010)[2] and the Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law.
Moran was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Yuma, Arizona.[1] Her father, Thomas Moran, was an Irish criminal defense attorney, and her mother, Josephine Moran, was a Mexican teacher and court interpreter.[3][4]
She attended Stanford University, earning a Bachelor's in psychology in 1978. She then earned a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1981, and clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the Second Circuit. Following a brief stint in private practice at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe, Moran joined the faculty at UC Berkeley School of Law (then "Boalt Hall") as its first Latina law professor,[5] and taught there for 25 years.[2] After joining the UC Irvine as a founding faculty member, Moran was selected to become UCLA School of Law's eighth dean,[3] and the first Latina dean of a top-ranked US law school.[1]
Moran's scholarship has focused on torts, education law (particularly bilingual education[3]), and civil rights, race and the law, and critical race theory.
Publications
- Educational Policy and the Law Mark Yudof, Betsy Levin, Rachel Moran, James M Ryan, Kristi L Bowman (2011)
- "Let Freedom Ring: Making Grutter Matter in School Desegregation Cases," 63 University of Miami Law Rev. 475 (2009)
- Race Law Stories (with Devon Carbado, Foundation Press, 2008)
- "Rethinking Race, Equality and Liberty: The Unfulfilled Promise of Parents Involved," 69 Ohio State University Law Review 1321 (2008)
- "Fear Unbound: A Reply to Professor Sunstein," in 42 Washburn Law Journal 1 (2003).
- Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
- "The Politics of Discretion: Federal Intervention in Bilingual Education", 76 California Law Review 6 (Dec. 1988), pp. 1249–1352
- "Bilingual Education as a Status Conflict", 75 California Law Review 321 (1987)
Awards and honors
- 1995, UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award
- 2009, President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS)
- 2011, Appointment by President Obama to the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise (maintenance of official history of the US Supreme Court)[6]
- 2011, Tomás Rivera Lecture, Keynote address at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Annual Conference[7]
- 2012, Jerome Hall Lecture, Indiana University Maurer School of Law ("Clark Kerr and Me: The Future of the Public Law School", March 21, 2012)[8]
Notes
- 1 2 3 "UCLA School of Law Names Rachel F. Moran Dean", Metropolitan News-Enterprise, June 7, 2010.
- 1 2 Rex Bossert, "Raising the Bar", UC Irvine Feature, June 2009.
- 1 2 3 Wendy Soderburg, "Small-town upbringing inspired love of law", USA Today, Oct. 14, 2010.
- ↑ Mara Knaub, "Former Yuma Latina Is Voice of UCLA Law", Yuma Sun, April 30, 2011.
- ↑ Andrea Guerrero, Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action (University of California Press, 2002), p.52.
- ↑ "Dean Moran Appointed by President Obama to Serve on the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise", UCLA School of Law News, September 26, 2011.
- ↑ "Hispanics in Higher Ed Inspired by the Words & Story of Rachel Moran, Dean of UCLA Law School" (Notitas de Noticias), Hispanically Speaking, September 25, 2011.
- ↑ "UCLA Law dean to lecture at IU Maurer School of Law on the future of public legal education", IU Press Release, March 14, 2012.