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Angela Onwuachi-Willig (born 1973) is a Nigerian-American legal scholar. She is dean and professor of law atBoston University School of Law and an expert incritical race theory,employment discrimination, andfamily law.[1] She took the position in August 2018, having previously been the Chancellor's Professor of Law at theUniversity of California, Berkeley.[2]
Onwuachi-Willig was born in theUnited States and grew up inTexas.[3]
She attendedGrinnell College for her bachelor's degree and graduated in 1994 with membership inPhi Beta Kappa. She received her J.D. from theUniversity of Michigan in 1997, where she was a Clarence Darrow Scholar. She was also theMichigan Law Review note editor, and an associate editor for the founding issue of theMichigan Journal of Race & Law.[4]
After law school, she clerked for United States District Court JudgeSolomon Oliver of the Northern District of Ohio and US Sixth Circuit JudgeKaren Nelson Moore. She went on to receive her Ph.D. in sociology andAfrican American studies fromYale University. She practiced law as a labor and employment associate atJones Day inCleveland, Ohio andFoley Hoag inBoston, Massachusetts.
Onwuachi-Willig joined the faculty of theUniversity of Iowa College of Law in 2006.[3] In 2011, she was one of nine finalists nominated to fill three open seats with theIowa Supreme Court.[3] She was the youngest nominee, as well as the only woman and only member of aracial minority.[3][5] She was not selected.[6]
Onwuachi-Willig subsequently joined theUniversity of California, Berkeley, where she held the title of Chancellor's Professor of Law.[7]
In 2018, she was named the new dean of Boston University School of Law, succeedingMaureen O'Rourke.[7]
Onwuachi-Willig is married to physicistJacob Willig-Onwuachi.[11][12]
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