Background
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.
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- 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).
Rachel Moran
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She attended Stanford University, earning a Bachelor"s in psychology in 1978.
Career
She was previously a founding faculty member at University of California Irvine School of Law (2008-2010) and the Robert Doctorate. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at University of California Berkeley School of Law. She then earned a Juris Doctor 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 University of California Berkeley School of Law (then "Boalt Hall") as its first Latina law professor, and taught there for 25 years.
After joining the University of California Irvine as a founding faculty member, Moran was selected to become University of California, Los Angeles School of Law"s eighth dean, and the first Latina dean of a top-ranked United States law school.
Moran"s scholarship has focused on torts, education law (particularly bilingual education), and civil rights, race and the law, and critical race theory. 1995, University of California Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
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1995, University of California 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 United States Supreme Court) 2011, Tomás Rivera Lecture, Keynote address at the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education (AAHHE) Annual Conference 2012, Jerome Hall Lecture, Indiana University Maurer School of Law ("Clark Kerr and Maine: The Future of the Public Law School", March 21, 2012).
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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).
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2010 (aged 54)