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E-Mail:
carbado@law.ucla.edu

Phone:
(434) 243-4925

Office: WB161

Devon W. Carbado

Professor of Law, UCLA
J.D., Harvard Law School, 1994

Devon Carbado, who recently served as the vice dean of the faculty, teaches constitutional criminal procedure, constitutional law, critical race theory, and criminal adjudication at UCLA. He was elected Professor of the Year by the UCLA School of Law classes of 2000 and 2006, is the 2003 recipient of the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and was recently awarded the University Distinguished Teaching Award, The Eby Award for the Art of Teaching.

Carbado graduated from Harvard Law School in 1994. At Harvard, he was the 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 of Law at the University of Iowa College of Law.

Carbado writes in the areas of critical race theory, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and identity. He is currently studying African-American responses to the internment of Japanese Americans and working on a book on employment discrimination tentatively titled “Acting White.” He is a former director of the Critical Race Studies Program at UCLA Law and a faculty associate of the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies.

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