Angela Onwuachi-Willig is Dean and Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Previously, she served as Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law, the Charles and Marion Kierscht Professor of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law, and Assistant Professor of Law at the University of California, Davis. She is a graduate of Grinnell College (B.A.), the University of Michigan Law School (J.D.), and Yale University (Ph.D. in Sociology and African American Studies). After law school, she clerked for The Honorable Solomon Oliver, U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of Ohio (and an NYU Law alumnus) and The Honorable Karen Nelson Moore, U.S. Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals and worked at both Jones Day and Foley Hoag LLP.

Dean Onwuachi-Willig is a leading scholar of law and inequality. Her research centers on race, gender, and class inequalities; employment discrimination; affirmative action; and family law. She is author of According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family (Yale 2013). She is currently working on a book that explores how African-Americans/Blacks as a group have experienced the legal outcomes in high profile cases involving the killings of unarmed or non-threatening African-Americans/Blacks, particularly in the case concerning the death of Trayvon Martin. Her articles have appeared in leading law journals like the Yale Law Journal, California Law Review, Michigan Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, and Vanderbilt Law Review. She is a former Iowa Supreme Court finalist and a recipient of both the AALS Clyde Ferguson and Derrick Bell, Jr. Awards, the Collegiate Teaching and Marion Huit Awards from the University of Iowa, and the Gertrude Rush Award from the Iowa Organization of Women Attorneys and the Iowa National Bar Association. Other honors include placement on the National Law Journal’s “Minority 40 under 40” list and Lawyers of Color’s inaugural “50 Under 50” List, and election to the American Law Institute (ALI). In the 2017-2018, she served as the William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation.

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