Rachel Moran

Rachel F. Moran (born 1956) is an American lawyer who is the Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law.[1] 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.[2]

Rachel Moran
Born
Rachel F. Moran

1956
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
Alma materStanford University (BA)
Yale Law School (JD)
Occupation
  • Author
  • professor
  • lawyer
Years active1981–present

Biography

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 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.[3][1]

Moran's scholarship has focused on torts, education law (particularly bilingual education[3]), 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

Notes
  1. "UCLA School of Law Names Rachel F. Moran Dean", Metropolitan News-Enterprise, June 7, 2010.
  2. Rex Bossert, "Raising the Bar", UC Irvine Feature, June 2009.
  3. Wendy Soderburg, "Small-town upbringing inspired love of law" Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, USA Today, Oct. 14, 2010.
  4. Mara Knaub, "Former Yuma Latina Is Voice of UCLA Law" Archived 2013-02-09 at Archive.today, Yuma Sun, April 30, 2011.
  5. Andrea Guerrero, Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action (University of California Press, 2002), p.52.
  6. "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.
  7. "Hispanics in Higher Ed Inspired by the Words & Story of Rachel Moran, Dean of UCLA Law School" Archived 2011-12-10 at the Wayback Machine (Notitas de Noticias), Hispanically Speaking, September 25, 2011.
  8. "UCLA Law dean to lecture at IU Maurer School of Law on the future of public legal education", IU Press Release, March 14, 2012.
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