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Rachel F. Moran
Title: Robert D. and Leslie-Kay Raven Professor of Law; Director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change
Office: 439 Boalt Hall (North Addition)
Tel: 510-643-6351
Fax: 510-643-2673
Email Address: rmoran@law.berkeley.edu
FSU Contact: Pamela Anne Lowry
Following law school, Rachel Moran clerked for Chief Judge Wilfred Feinberg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit and worked for the San Francisco firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. She joined the Boalt faculty in 1983.
She was a visiting professor at UCLA (1988), Stanford (1989), NYU School of Law (1996), the University of Miami Law School (1997) and the University of Texas (2000). From 1993 to 1996 Moran served as chair of the Chicano/Latino Policy Project at UC Berkeley's Institute for the Study of Social Change. In 1995 she received the UC Berkeley Distinguished Teaching Award.
Moran is a member of the American Law Institute and the Executive Committee of the Association of American Law Schools. She sits on the Standing Committee of the Division of Public Education, American Bar Association; on the Board of Advisors for the Texas Hispanic Journal of Law and Policy; and on 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 and the Steering Committee for UC ACCORD. In 2003 she also became the director of the Institute for the Study of Social Change at UC Berkeley.
Moran's recent publications include "Fear Unbound: A Reply to Professor Sunstein," in the Washburn Law Journal (2003); "Law and Remembrance," in Language and the Law (2003); and "The Elusive Nature of Discrimination," in the Stanford Law Review (2003).
Education:
A.B., Stanford University (1978)J.D., Yale University (1981)
