Professor Awarded Prestigious Award for Contribution to Legal Education
Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig was awarded the Derrick A. Bell Junior Award by the Minority Groups Section of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). The award, named in honor of Derrick A. Bell, Jr. of New York University Law School, honors a junior faculty member who, through activism, mentoring, colleagueship, teaching, and scholarship, has made an extraordinary contribution to legal education, the legal system, or social justice. Onwuachi-Willig will be honored at the AALS Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C. on Friday, January 6, 2006 during the Section on Minority Groups Section Luncheon.
Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig currently teaches family law, evidence, and critical race theory at the UC Davis School of Law. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Clarence Darrow Scholar, a Note Editor on the Michigan Law Review, and an Associate Editor on the founding issue of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. After law school, Professor Onwuachi-Willig clerked for the Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr., United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore, United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Professor Angela Onwuachi-Willig currently teaches family law, evidence, and critical race theory at the UC Davis School of Law. She is a graduate of the University of Michigan Law School, where she was a Clarence Darrow Scholar, a Note Editor on the Michigan Law Review, and an Associate Editor on the founding issue of the Michigan Journal of Race and Law. After law school, Professor Onwuachi-Willig clerked for the Honorable Solomon Oliver, Jr., United States District Judge for the Northern District of Ohio, and the Honorable Karen Nelson Moore, United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals.