Rachel Moran Explained
| Rachel Moran |
| Birth Name: | Rachel F. Moran |
| Birth Date: | 1956 |
| Birth Place: | Kansas City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Years Active: | 1981present |
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]
Biography
Moran was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Yuma, Arizona. Her father, Thomas Moran, was an Irish criminal defense attorney, and her mother, Josephine Moran, was a Mexican teacher and court interpreter.[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. 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.
Moran's scholarship has focused on torts, education law (particularly bilingual education[6]), 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 and References
- https://www.law.uci.edu/faculty/full-time/moran/ "Rachel Moran"
- http://www.metnews.com/articles/2010/mora060710.htm "UCLA School of Law Names Rachel F. Moran Dean"
- Rex Bossert, "Raising the Bar", UC Irvine Feature, June 2009.
- 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.
- Wendy Soderburg, "Small-town upbringing inspired love of law", USA Today, Oct. 14, 2010.
- http://www.law.ucla.edu/news-media/Pages/News.aspx?NewsID=1948 "Dean Moran Appointed by President Obama to Serve on the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise"
- http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas-de-noticias/details/hispanics-in-higher-ed-inspired-by-the-words-story-of-rachel-moran-dea/10504/ "Hispanics in Higher Ed Inspired by the Words & Story of Rachel Moran, Dean of UCLA Law School"
- http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/21549.html "UCLA Law dean to lecture at IU Maurer School of Law on the future of public legal education"
