Professor Devon Carbado, UCLA School of Law

Devon W. Carbado is the Associate and Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. He teaches constitutional criminal procedure, constitutional law, critical race theory and criminal adjudication. He was elected Professor of the Year twice—by the UCLA School of Law Classes of 2000 and 2006, respectively. In 2003 he received the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and he is the 2007 recipient of the University Distinguished Teaching Award. .

Born in England, Carbado received his Juris Doctorate with honors from Harvard in 1994. He was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Black Letter Law Journal, a member of the Board of Student Advisors and winner of the Northeast Frederick Douglass Moot Court Competition. After receiving his law degree, he joined Latham & Watkins in Los Angeles as an associate before his appointment as a faculty fellow and visiting associate professor at the University of Iowa College of Law. He joined the UCLA Law faculty in 1997 and since that time has also been a faculty associate of the Bunche Center for African American Studies.
The professor writes in the areas of critical race theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law and identity, and his scholarship appears in law reviews at Cornell, UCLA, Yale, Michigan, Texas, and Harvard, among other places.

Carbado is also very popular with his current and former students. They comment on how generous he is with his time and how he extends his teaching beyond the formal classroom setting, either in lively discussions in the hallway after class, during office hours, through volunteering his time to read and comment on students’ academic work or by serving as a resource and an ally for students seeking a listening ear within the administration. Many of his former students have claimed that he has deeply and profoundly touched their lives.

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