Rachel Moran

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]

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.

• 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)

• 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]