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Rachel Moran
Born1956 (age 67–68)
Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.
EducationStanford University (BA)
Yale University (JD)
Occupations
  • Author
  • professor
  • lawyer
Years active1981–present

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

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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

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  • 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

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Notes

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  1. ^ "Rachel Moran", "UCI Full Time Faculty", March 26, 2022.
  2. ^ a b c "UCLA School of Law Names Rachel F. Moran Dean", Metropolitan News-Enterprise, June 7, 2010.
  3. ^ a b Rex Bossert, "Raising the Bar", UC Irvine Feature, June 2009.
  4. ^ 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.
  5. ^ Mara Knaub, "Former Yuma Latina Is Voice of UCLA Law" Archived 2013-02-09 at archive.today, Yuma Sun, April 30, 2011.
  6. ^ Andrea Guerrero, Silence at Boalt Hall: The Dismantling of Affirmative Action (University of California Press, 2002), p.52.
  7. ^ "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.
  8. ^ "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.
  9. ^ "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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