Maria Boss

Biography

Maria Boss began teaching at UCLA Anderson as a lecturer during summer session in 1990. Since that time, she has taught Management 108 (Business Law) during summer sessions and the regular academic year.

In addition to teaching at UCLA, Boss has been professor of business law at California State University, Los Angeles since 1987, where she teaches courses in business ethics, government and society for the Management Department as well as business law in the Finance, Law and Real Estate Department. She received the Cal State L.A. University Outstanding Professor Award and the Cal State L.A. Distinguished Woman Award. She has served as the chair of the Finance, Law and Real Estate Department.

Boss has always considered herself a teacher. "Prior to becoming an attorney, I was a high school and middle school English teacher for four and a half years," she says. "I was very happy when I had the opportunity to combine teaching and law."

Before joining the faculty at Cal State L.A., Boss practiced corporate transactional law in Los Angeles for 11 years and represented management in employment issues. One of her Title VII cases went to the U.S. Supreme Court, where she has been admitted to practice since 1980.

Boss has written articles for 12 publications and presented papers to more than 25 academic conferences. Her research interests have focused on corporate governance, insider trading, hedge fund regulation and employment discrimination. She served as a grader for the California Bar Exam.

During the past two years, she has served as a thesis advisor for two students in the Cal State L.A. honors department who are majoring in pre-law. She presented papers at the Pacific Southwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business in Palm Springs, Calif., in 2015 and 2016.