Devon Carbado ’91

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Devon Carbado ’91 currently serves as academic associate dean, 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. In 2003, he received the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2004 was recognized as a “Rising Star/Scholar of Note” in Black Issues in Higher Education.

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.

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.