UCLA Law dean to speak on value of public law schools

Rachel Moran, dean and professor at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, will lecture about the importance of maintaining public law schools in the face of economic troubles.

Moran, a legal scholar and educational policy expert, will examine in her talk the decline of state funding both in California and across the country, and how that situation puts the future of public law schools in danger.

She’ll outline the tradition of public law schools in the United States and give reasons to find hope in the core missions of these schools. 

She’ll deliver her speech, which is a Jerome Hall Lecture that is free and open to the public, at noon today in Maurer School of Law’s Moot Court room.

Moran has the distinction of being the first Latina dean of a top-20 U.S. law school.
She also is the former president of the Association of American Law Schools.

Moran’s talk, “Clark Kerr and Me: The Future of the Public Law School,”  will also focus on Kerr, a leader in the field who helped build the UCLA Law School.

— Matthew Glowicki