As Brian Leiter reported the other day, Rachel Moran has been appointed dean of the UCLA Law School, replacing Michael Schill. Professor Moran has been making a whirlwind tour through the UC system in the last few years, teaching at Berkeley, moving to Irvine (though holding her spot open at UCB), moving back to Berkeley (with an open offer to return to Irvine), and now - finally - to what a press release tells us is "the youngest major law school in the nation." (It was founded in 1949. Even ignoring BYU, Cardozo, Villanova, Houston, and many others, I wonder if the folks up at UC Davis realize that they're not major. Maybe they're all really mid-majors.)
Notwithstanding my obsession with minutiae, this is very good news on many different levels.
Your obsession with minutaie is not obsessive enough: Moran will be the dean of UCLA, not Davis. Surely UCLA qualifies as "major"? It's ranked significantly higher than BUY, Cardozo, Villanova etc. that you are mentioning as peers.
Posted by: obsessive | June 08, 2010 at 03:29 PM
Obsessive- I think that maybe you should read the post again, a bit more carefully, and see in what way that Davis is being referred to. (Hint- there's no implication that Moran is going to be the dean there.)
Posted by: Matt | June 08, 2010 at 05:56 PM
So, four out of five UC law schools now headed up by critical race theorists?
Posted by: btraven | June 09, 2010 at 01:00 PM
Btraven: I don't see how you got your numbers. I count only 2 UC Deans as being critical race theorists.
UCLA -- Rachel Moran, yes.
Davis -- Kevin Johnson, yes.
Berkeley -- Chris Edley -- no, an administrative law scholar, not a critical race theorist.
Irvine -- Irwin Chemerinsky -- no, a con law scholar, not a critical race theorist
Hastings -- Leo Martinez -- no, a tax and insurance law scholar, not a critical race theorist
Posted by: Vladimir | June 09, 2010 at 06:07 PM
Lots of things wrong with btraven's comment. Way lots.
Posted by: Prof | June 11, 2010 at 12:26 AM