Rachel Moran
American lawyer and academic
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Rachel F. Moran (born 1956) is an American lawyer who is currently a Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine School of Law.[1] She was previously the Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.[2] She served as Dean of the UCLA School of Law from 2010 to 2015, and was a faculty member at UC Irvine School of Law from 2008 to 2010, and at UC Berkeley School of Law from 1983 to 2008.[3]
Yale University (JD)
- Author
- professor
- lawyer
Rachel Moran | |
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| Born | 1956 (age 69–70) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
Biography
Moran was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Yuma, Arizona.[2] Her father, Thomas Moran, was an Irish criminal defense attorney, and her mother, Josephine Moran, was a Mexican teacher and court interpreter.[4][5]
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,[6] and taught there for 25 years.[3] After two years at UC Irvine School of Law as a founding faculty member, Moran was selected to become UCLA School of Law's eighth dean in 2010, and the first Latina dean of a top-ranked US law school.[4][2]
Moran's scholarship has focused on torts, education law (particularly bilingual education[4]), 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)[7]
- 2011, Tomás Rivera Lecture, Keynote address at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Annual Conference[8]
- 2012, Jerome Hall Lecture, Indiana University Maurer School of Law ("Clark Kerr and Me: The Future of the Public Law School", March 21, 2012)[9]
