The Daily Journal, June 1, 2010 by Susan McRae
http://www.dailyjournal.com/ (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

“I think this is fantastic,” said Berkeley law professor Ian F. Haney Lopez. “I think she would make a phenomenal dean.”

In a brief interview with UC Irvine, Moran said her decision to go into law came when she was helping her professors at Stanford…. “That experience made me realize how powerful law could be in changing people’s lives, and so I went to law school instead of graduate school in psychology,” Moran said in the interview.

The Promise of Berkeley, October 2009
http://issuu.com/shawnm/docs/_x7319a_pob_fall_09_compiled.v2/18?mode=a_p

Rachel Moran: I was surprised at the level of attention that [wise Latina] remark received. I felt it was about how diversity can improve outcomes. When you have all kinds of people on the bench, they reach better results through the vigorous exchange of ideas.

Maria Blanco: She will bring more trial court and appellate experience than any sitting on the court. She has the most judicial experience of any Supreme Court nominee in the last 70 years and the most federal judicial experience in 100 years.

Melissa Murray: She made sure we understood that behind every appeal there was a person who wanted and deserved to be heard. She also emphasized the importance of giving back. She routinely went out of her way to mentor young people and young lawyers in New York City.

Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2009 by David G. Savage and James Oliphant
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-sotomayor-hearings12-2009jul12,0,7594234.story

Rachel F. Moran has known Sotomayor since their days as students at Yale Law School. She invited the judge to speak at UC Berkeley in 2001, at a conference on the shortage of Latinos on the bench. It was there that Sotomayor spoke of her hope that a wise Latina would make better decisions as a judge. “I was caught off guard by all the attention this has received,” Moran said recently. “People are affected by their background and experience. Her claim was not that your individual perspective is better or worse, but that you reach better outcomes when multiple perspectives are represented. That’s why we have nine people [on the Supreme Court] reviewing decisions.”

The Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2009 by Naftali Bendavid
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124404932521081845.html

“I don’t think anybody thought it was incendiary or inflammatory or anything like that,” said Rachel Moran, then a Berkeley law professor. Ms. Moran, who is Hispanic, invited Judge Sotomayor, whom she had known at Yale Law School.

-Contra Costa Times, May 26, 2009 by Matt O’ Brien
http://www.contracostatimes.com/search/ci_12453948?IADID=Search-www.contracostatimes.com-www.contracostatimes.com

“My recollection is she gave a very polished and elegant speech,” Moran said. “It was warmly received and well-regarded.” Moran said the remarks drew applause and were characteristic of a judge she knows to be funny, direct and smart. “She’s someone who really thinks deeply. She has that broader perspective and the longer view,” Moran said. “She’s not ponderous. She’s not going to be on a soapbox. But she’s very thoughtful.”

-The Huffington Post, May 26, 2009 by Bella DePaulo
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bella-depaulo/more-about-sonia-sotomayo_b_207937.html

She has a keen intellect, an articulate voice, and a sense of humor (though this is not usually mentioned in the press coverage). I think she will be a formidable presence on the Court, who will be a lively, engaging, and challenging colleague for the other Justices.

-The New York Times, May 30, 2009 by Laurie Goodstein
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/us/politics/31catholics.html?sq=Berkeley&st=nyt&scp=7&pagewanted=print

“In law school, it was very clear she was committed to serving the community and using the law as an instrument of service to the greater good,” said Rachel Moran, a professor at the University of California Berkeley School of Law who is on leave to help establish a law school at the University of California, Irvine. “That’s a mark of religion, even if she didn’t say so.”

Contra Costa Times, May 17, 2009 by Matt O’Brien

http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_12391215?source=rss

“He was willing to change the law in response to social conditions,” said Rachel Moran, a law professor at UC Berkeley. “California was becoming the great state, the powerhouse it would become after World War II. The need to be responsive to change was really considerable.”

The National Law Journal, January 19, 2009 by Rachel F. Moran
http://www.nlj.com (requires registration; go to G:\Law School in the News\News Clips for article)

A citizen-lawyer ethic would feed the hunger for consequential service that drives many to study law. Is this call for renewal fanciful? Not this year. As Americans lose jobs and homes, they better appreciate social safety nets that ensure minimum levels of security and dignity. People want advice from experts on law and policy about how to address the grave challenges we face. Legal principles—transparency, the individual’s right to seek relief, deference to courts and legislatures, and the necessity for administrative oversight—are ascendant. No longer is free-market enthusiasm, with its hostility to regulation, the order of the day.

Boston Globe, June 8, by Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow
http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/08/i_now_pronounce_you____friend_and_friend/?page=4

Changes of this kind would “allow you to say, these are people who matter deeply to me,” said Rachel Moran.… “I want that to count, not only in my own intimate life, but in the eyes of the law.”