Rachel F. Moran (born 1956) is an American lawyer who is currently a Distinguished Professor at UC Irvine School of Law.
[3] Moran was born in Kansas City, Missouri, and grew up in Yuma, Arizona.
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.
[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.