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]
Rachel Moran | |
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| Born | 1956 (age 67–68) Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Education | Stanford University (BA) Yale University (JD) |
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| Years active | 1981–present |
Biography
editMoran 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
edit- 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
edit- 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]
Notes
edit- ^ "Rachel Moran", "UCI Full Time Faculty", March 26, 2022.
- ^ a b c "UCLA School of Law Names Rachel F. Moran Dean", Metropolitan News-Enterprise, June 7, 2010.
- ^ a b Rex Bossert, "Raising the Bar", UC Irvine Feature, June 2009.
- ^ a b c Wendy Soderburg, "Small-town upbringing inspired love of law" Archived 2012-05-09 at the Wayback Machine, USA Today, Oct. 14, 2010.
- ^ Mara Knaub, "Former Yuma Latina Is Voice of UCLA Law" Archived 2013-02-09 at archive.today, 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"[usurped] (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.
