Rachel F. Moran is Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law. Prior to her appointment at UCLA, Professor Moran was Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law. From July 2008 to June 2010, Moran served as a founding faculty member of the UC Irvine Law School. While at Berkeley, Professor Moran received a Distinguished Teaching Award from the campus, and she served as Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change as well as Chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project (now the Center for Latino Policy Research). Moran is highly active in the legal and academic community. She was appointed as President of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 2009. She is a member of the American Law Institute, the Phi Beta Kappa Senate, the Steering Committee for UC ACCORD, and the Board of Advisors for the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy. She previously served on the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools, the Standing Committee of the Division of Public Education, American Bar Association and the Executive Board of the Berkeley Law Foundation. In addition, in 2003 she chaired the Planning Committee for Taking Stock: Women of All Colors in Law Schools for the Association of American Law Schools. Moran's numerous publications include: Race Law Stories (with Devon Carbado, Foundation Press, 2008); Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance (University of Chicago Press, 2001); "Let Freedom Ring: Making Grutter Matter in School Desegregation Cases," 63 University of Miami Law Rev. 475 (2009); "Rethinking Race, Equality and Liberty: The Unfulfilled Promise of Parents Involved," 69 Ohio State University Law Review 1321 (2008); and "Fear Unbound: A Reply to Professor Sunstein," in 42 Washburn Law Journal 1 (2003).
