Rachel F. Moran, dean of the UCLA School of Law and Michael J. Connell Distinguished Professor of Law, has been appointed to the recently formed American Bar Association (ABA) Task Force on the Financing of Legal Education. She joins a select group of legal professionals appointed to the 14-member panel by ABA president James R. Silkenat. The presidential task force is charged with conducting a thorough examination of how law school is financed, including addressing the role of student loans and the impact of educational debt on graduates.
Dean Moran earned her A.B. in psychology from Stanford University, and her J.D. from Yale Law School. Prior to her appointment as dean of UCLA School of Law, she was on the faculty of UC Berkeley School of Law and was a founding faculty member of the UC Irvine Law School. Highly active in the legal community, she was appointed by President Obama in September, 2011, to serve as a member of the Permanent Committee for the Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise. She was appointed president of the Association of American Law Schools in 2009 and also was a member of the assocation's Executive Committee. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the American Law Institute.
Moran's numerous publications include "Educational Policy and the Law," with Mark G. Yudof, Betsy Levin, James E. Ryan and Kristi L. Bowman) (5th ed. Cengage, 2012); "Race Law Stories" (with Devon Carbado) (Foundation Press, 2008); and "Interracial Intimacy: The Regulation of Race and Romance" (University of Chicago Press, 2001).
She has been inducted into the Lincoln Club and the Chancery Club of Los Angeles and was elected to the Board of Governors of the Beverly Hills Bar Association in 2013. She recently completed her service as a Senator for the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
