Angela Onwuachi-Willig
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Angela Onwuachi-Willig is Dean and the Ryan Roth Gallo and Ernest J. Gallo Professor of Law at Boston University School of Law. Previously, she served as Chancellor’s Professor of Law at the UC Berkeley. She is author of According to Our Hearts: Rhinelander v. Rhinelander and the Law of the Multiracial Family and numerous articles in leading law journals like the Yale Law Journal and Virginia Law Review. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Law Institute, and the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers; an elected fellow of the American and Iowa Bar Foundations; a recipient of numerous teaching awards, a former Iowa Supreme Court finalist; a recipient of Law and Society Association’s (LSA) John Hope Franklin Award; and the first professor (along with Mario Barnes, UCI) to receive both the AALS Clyde Ferguson and Derrick Bell Awards, along with many other honors. In January 2021, she was one of five black women deans to receive the inaugural AALS Impact Award in recognition of their work for the Law Deans Antiracist Clearinghouse Project. Dean Onwuachi-Willig serves on the Grinnell College Board of Trustees, the Law School Admissions Council Board, the Purple Campaign’s Advisory Board, the Board for Women in Film and Video New England, the AALS Deans Steering Committee, and the Deans U.S. News Advisory Board. She also serves on Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) Alternatives to the Bar Exam Task Force, the SJC standing Committee on Lawyer Well-Being, and Senators Elizabeth Warren and Edward Markey’s U.S. District Court Selection Committee. Additionally, she currently co-chairs the SJC Committee on Bar Admissions: Character and Fitness. Angela is a graduate of Grinnell College (B.A.), University of Michigan Law School (J.D.), and Yale University (Ph.D.). She previously served as a Labor and Employment Associate at Jones Day in Cleveland and Foley Hoag in Boston.