Student Specializations

At UCLA Law, J.D. students can elect to pursue curricular specializations in nine areas; the school also offers twelve LL.M. specializations and ten specializations for M.L.S. students.

Specializations for members of the Class of 2025 are listed below. (Note that this list is subject to change and that specializations are not final or official until posted on UCLA Law transcripts and diplomas this summer.)

Specializations

  • Business Law & Policy (Includes Taxation Law and Specific Tracks)

    J.D. Graduates - Business Law

    • Muna A. Ali
    • Eric Rafi Bazak
    • Lucas O. Beard
    • Suzan Z. Bedikian
    • Patrick R. Begian
    • Harrison Martin Cates
    • Christian J. Corrales
    • Austin J. Damiani
    • Drew M. Downing
    • Lydia C. Engel
    • Rohan Gandhi
    • Grant Reno Grech
    • Anthony Sunwoo Han
    • Nara Jo
    • J. Y. Khoo
    • Grant William Leman
    • Philip G. Obrinsky
    • Jacob Ryan Ottone
    • Antonio W. Spatafore
    • Matthew J. Steinhaus
    • Ryan Sweeney
    • Audrey M. Wacker
    • Evan Karmes Wainer
    • Mariam Zahran

    J.D. Graduates - Taxation Law

    • Amelia Best
    • Tyler Caceres
    • Grant Reno Grech
    • Thomas Paul Hurtubise
    • Matthew R. Manus
    • Christina Nakagawa
    • Ryan Sweeney
    • Benjamin Tu
    • Jacqueline B. Watson

    LL.M. Graduates - Bankruptcy Track

    • Amalia Kurniaputri
    • Lasse Lemmermann

    LL.M. Graduates - Business Law Track

    • Nehir Arat
    • Sepehr Barzegari
    • Ambroise Baumgartner
    • Harshwardhan R. Bondre
    • Camille Burg
    • Lara Candogan
    • Rohan Chandra
    • Kotaro Chikaishi
    • Belén Dominguez Aguete
    • Mina Erdem
    • Yasmine Foucher
    • Fidel Gustavo Guerrero Arias
    • Simon Günther
    • Thomas Hermans
    • Chiaki Hikima
    • Jayathi Ippili
    • Niklas Kaiser
    • Edith Micaela Lee
    • Qianglong Liu
    • Archana Dinesh Nair
    • Yuki Nishimae
    • Paula-Anne Bonoselulu Omiyi
    • Qi Pan
    • Sabigya Pandey
    • Dong Hee Park
    • Penny Peng
    • Quentin J. Pinsolle Dubourg
    • Sabrina Caldas Pires
    • Mathilde Princi
    • Jiayi Shen
    • Susanna Stummer
    • Jorge Tole
    • I-Hsiang Tseng
    • Juliet Walker
    • Kazuya Yamakawa
    • Matilda Younesi

    LL.M. Graduates - Securities Regulation Track

    • Selen Caglar
    • Ananya Guruprasad
    • Radhakrishnan Hari Krishnan
    • Simran Kalra
    • Debra Olaniyi
    • Maria Nefeli Theodoropoulou
    • Jun Umezawa
    • Yuka Umezawa
    • Clemente Ignacio Waidele Arteaga

    LL.M. Graduates - Tax Track

    • Xiaotong Diao
    • Hsien-Shun Hsin
    • Brian Jaeseung Kim
    • Cheolyoung Lee
    • Yuanting Li
    • Candela Victoria Memi
    • Seunghwan Oh
    • Seung-Jae Park
    • Yiduo Wang
    • Yinghan Wang
    • Zimeng Ye

    M.L.S. Graduates - Business Law

    • Arin Bedirian
    • Ernesto Carrasco
    • Kevin Bataclan Cunanan
    • Zachary Taj Currie
    • Gerardo J. Gomez
    • Michelle Kidess
    • Tim Khumoyun Ermatov
    • Irina Hayrapetova
    • Andrew Wu
  • Critical Race Studies

    J.D. Graduates

    • Kaya Elena Rodriguez Agustin
    • Malyka Tekle Akom
    • Dominica Carina Aranaga
    • Eliane S. Bach
    • Leila Carmel Bathke
    • Stephanie Batres
    • Maria Beaucage
    • Amelia Best
    • Sarah Boyle
    • Aria Burdon Dasbach
    • Kelsey Carpenter
    • Nicholas Pasquale Castellano
    • Kendall B. Chappell
    • Catherine Anne Charleston
    • Mary Cruz
    • Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski
    • Brianna L. Deigan
    • Jacqueline Diaz Madrigal
    • Danielle Garcia
    • Ben Gerstein
    • Charlotte Julia Godart
    • Geneva Hale
    • Cooper Jay Halpern
    • Jet Harbeck
    • Leslie Cruz Herrera
    • Sarah Emiko Hess
    • Joshua Hickman-Kramer
    • Heliya Izadpanah
    • Dalaal Fahmi Jaber
    • Michelle E. Jimenez
    • Binwant Kaur Kahlon
    • Ania Korpanty
    • Alessandra Misha Landi
    • Sylvia Margaretta Lydon
    • Jade Magaña
    • Sahar J. Mahboob
    • Sal Mawhinney
    • Alanna Guillen McNaughton
    • Juweria Mehtar
    • Alexis K. Moore
    • Samantha Carolina Navarrete
    • Julia P. Nguyen
    • Niki Nhi Nguyễn
    • Rachel Oda
    • Sara Reese Orton
    • free Sabyne Pierre
    • Callie Plapinger
    • Bertha G. Romero Madrigal
    • Kerry Ann Rork
    • Aracely Ruvalcaba
    • Uriel Saldivar-Esteban
    • Lavanya Sathyamurthy
    • Shannon P. Saul
    • Indiana Schnicer
    • Cheyenne Noelle Smith
    • Sereenah A. Soare
    • Michael Gary Stallworth
    • Micalyn Struble
    • Isabel Florence Thompson
    • Mikayla Kim Tran
    • Maria Trubetskaya
    • Ángel Valdez Ordonez
    • Roger Valencia Ricardez
    • Kaya Alika Van Dyke
    • Samantha Vega
    • Lucy R. Weiss
    • Kimberly Chantal Welch
    • Cole Anthony Au-Yeun Yipon
    • Jo Zhou
    • Katrina Holly Zhu

    LL.M. Graduates

    • Mosopefoluwa Elizabeth Omoniwa
    • La Mecia Ross
  • Employment & Human Resources Law

    M.L.S. Graduates

    • Xinzhu Chen
    • Kennedy Witcher Chinedum
    • Merrin W. Clark
    • Kristen Pritchett
    • Fawn Lauren Testa-Ribeiro
    • Natalie G. Traynham
    • Luis D. Vega
  • Entertainment & Media Law

    J.D. Graduates - Media, Entertainment, Technology & Sports Law

    • Alara Abbasi
    • Maxwell Arthur Abish
    • Henri J. Adams
    • Kaya Elena Rodriguez Agustin
    • William Ayass
    • Michelle Joan Barrett
    • Riya A. Chaudhry
    • Catherine Clement
    • Christian J. Corrales
    • Matthew P. Deng
    • Drew Downing
    • Lydia Christine Engel
    • Andrew Lawrence Fenning
    • Rohan Gandhi
    • William T. Gansler
    • Diego Garcia
    • Nicolette Gelnak
    • Jonathan R. Gordon
    • Kirsten Grohs
    • Channing Olivia Hans
    • Alexandra T. Hanzlick
    • Marisa M. Harris
    • Kalina Kazmierczak
    • Max A. Kirkham
    • Natalie Anne McGuire
    • Andrew Fuad Nassab
    • Michael J. O'Hearne
    • Matias A. Pachalian
    • Eden Shemuelian
    • Victor L. Shen
    • Mary Elizabeth Stachofsky
    • Michael Gary Stallworth
    • Jhanel Stewart
    • Alyssa Archuleta Stolmack
    • Isha Thornton
    • Benjamin Wu
    • Lauren Yaple
    • Cole Anthony Au-Yeun Yipon
    • Edward Yu

    LL.M. Graduates - Media, Entertainment, Technology, and Sports Law & Policy

    • Mirette Abdo
    • Maria Abraham
    • Saad Arshad
    • Sepehr Barzegari
    • Nicole Bernhardt
    • Ananya Bhardwaj
    • Lanbing Cao
    • Gurroop Cheema
    • Roopneet Dhillon
    • Yihan (Amelia) Ding
    • Thais Dos Santos Conceicao
    • Muhammad Anas Fadli
    • William A. Gage
    • Marine Aude Marion Grosclaude
    • Yue Gu
    • Daniela Paz Guerrero Ferrada
    • Keerti Jaya
    • Yuki Kaneko
    • Preethi Kavilikatta
    • Amalia Kurniaputri
    • Edith Micaela Lee
    • Logan Lee
    • Keke Li
    • Yifan Liao
    • Xuanlin Liu
    • Ruixuan Ma
    • Tanya Manglik
    • Yuxuan Mao
    • Paula Mazzei Garcia
    • Andrés Meza Scarpetta
    • Anastasiia Milchakova
    • Satomi Nakao
    • Athéna Léo Njaboum Mbiandje
    • Elena Ntanas
    • Paula-Anne Bonoselulu Omiyi
    • Qi Pan
    • Lisha Pang
    • Rachapoll Phromyarat
    • Francisco Rapp
    • Alessandro Franco Rota
    • Hamlet Sanchez
    • Xiyue Shen
    • Shohei Shibuya
    • Jan Tillmann
    • I-Hsiang Tseng
    • Yuzheng Tu
    • Javier Villanueva
    • Aaron S. Wecker
    • Yueying Wu
    • BoHua Xiang
    • Grace Xing
    • Yuewei Xu
    • Ming Yuan
    • Zhiwei Zhang

    M.L.S. Graduates - Entertainment & Media Law

    • Hanah Abualhaj
    • Erin Ay
    • Annasaskhea P. Azor
    • Desiree Denise-Marie Moses Becker
    • Brad Burnside
    • Gabriella A. Byrne
    • Emily Figueroa
    • Ashley Furst
    • Anisha Joshi
    • Melissa Kate Rabinowitz
    • Daniela Rodrigues Bontorim
    • Giles Sutton
    • Gabrielle Jane Ziemacki
  • Environmental Law

    J.D. Graduates

    • Lauren August
    • Eliane S. Bach
    • Maria Beaucage
    • Nicole Benalcazar
    • Kendall B. Chappell
    • Joseph J. Gregory
    • Emmet Dymond Hollingshead
    • Jennifer Nicole Imm
    • Harris J. Koepenick
    • Anirudh Bharadwaj Krishna
    • Julia Larkin
    • Aine Healey Lawlor
    • Luis Armando Martinez
    • Kyler S. McVoy
    • Maria Trubetskaya
    • Cassandra Duyen Vo

    LL.M. Graduates

    • Bowen Chen
    • Josefina María Iglesias de las Heras

    M.L.S. Graduates

    • Maddie E. Tlachac
  • Government and National Security Law

    M.L.S. Graduates

    • Julianna Lasorsa
    • Lucy Elisa Ortiz
  • Health Law & Policy

    M.L.S. Graduates

    • CJ Reid
  • Human Rights

    LL.M. Graduates

    • Afrah Albuluwi
    • Sara Aringoli
    • Dumonde Dunkley
    • Marie Epple
    • Magomed-Gusein Gasanov
    • Shun Uchida
    • Vanessa Vanegas
  • Individualized and Self-Designed Specializations

    LL.M. Graduates

    • Ignacio Abogabir Mendez – Labor and Employment Law
    • Maria Abraham – Labor and Employment Law
    • Michael Apsan-Orgera – Criminal Justice
    • Harshwardhan R. Bondre – Alternative Dispute Resolution
    • Rafaela Ramos Silva – Criminal Justice
    • Torge Urbanski – Law and Electoral Politics
    • Rosa (Jiayi) Yan – Civil and Commercial Litigation
  • International and Comparative Law

    J.D. Graduates

    • Alara Abbasi
    • Aria Burdon Dasbach
    • Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski
    • Jacqueline Diaz Madrigal
    • Ben Gerstein
    • Melissa A. Hernández Cardozo
    • Heliya Izadpanah
    • Miksa Karcheski
    • Luis Armando Martinez
    • Sophia Pires Serata
    • Madison Kate Simons
    • Noah Aziz Usman
    • Catherine Marie Washington

    LL.M. Graduates

    • Afrah Albuluwi
    • Sara Aringoli
    • Maria Luiza Carpizo Fernandes Costa
    • Mina Erdem
    • Magomed-Gusein Gasanov
    • Minghong Geng
    • Philip Hudson
    • Rafaela Ramos Silva
    • Marie Tomavo
    • Vanessa Vanegas
    • BoHua Xiang
  • Law and Philosophy

    J.D. Graduates

    • Rachel Oda

    LL.M. Graduates

    • Md Fashih Ur Rahman Lisan
  • Law and Sexuality

    LL.M. Graduates

    • Yin Liu
  • Law and Technology

    J.D. Graduates - Technology Law

    • Alara Abbasi
    • Ionne Arakelyan
    • William Ayass
    • Cecilia Lynn Bain
    • Suzan Z. Bedikian
    • Patrick R. Bedikian
    • Matthew P. Deng
    • Jada Leticia Evans
    • Matthew Alexander Gerges
    • Charlotte Julia Godart
    • Channing Olivia Hans
    • Robina Angela D. Henson
    • Gazal Homayouni
    • Kalina Kazmierczak
    • Michael Merabi
    • Andrew Fuad Nassab
    • Michael Gary Stallworth
    • Alyssa Archuleta Stolmack
    • Rain Yang Sun
    • Jennifer Krumper Villoria

    LL.M. Graduates - Technology Law

    • Marco Léon Alain Charrier
    • Elif Dilara Cicek
    • Clara Faucher
    • Shlomo Gedamo
    • Shirley Priyanjana Kumar
    • Sangho Lee
    • Xinyu Liu
    • Gyeonghwan Noh
    • Lola Odukoya
    • Simon Schroers
    • Lexian Wang
    • Heesuk Yang
    • Qianwen Zhang

    M.L.S. Graduates - Law & Technology

    • Dana Michelle Childs
    • Julian Tran
    • Xu Zhang
  • Native Nations Law

    J.D. Graduates - Native Nations Law and Policy

    • Leila Carmel Bathke
    • Mary Cruz
    • Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski
    • Joseph J. Gregory
    • Harper Adele Johnson
    • Aine Healey Lawlor
    • Shundeen Marisol Martinez
    • Kyler McVoy
    • Sean M. Sadler

    LL.M. Graduates - Native Nations Law

    • Dumonde Dunkley
  • Public Interest Law

    J.D. Graduates - Public Interest Law & Policy

    • Leila Carmel Bathke
    • Maria Beaucage
    • Sarah Boyle
    • Kendall B. Chappell
    • Catherine Anne Charleston
    • Mary Cruz
    • Mollie Cueva-Dabkoski
    • Michael Cary Dickerson
    • Joshua Nobori Fujita
    • Danielle Garcia
    • Ben Gerstein
    • Viviana M. Gonzalez
    • Clareanne Roberta Goschke
    • Joseph J. Gregory
    • Samuel Hall
    • Jet Harbeck
    • Joshua Hickman-Kramer
    • Heliya Izadpanah
    • Michelle E. Jimenez
    • Binwant Kaur Kahlon
    • Anirudh Bharadwaj Krishna
    • Kaho Maeda
    • Sahar J. Mahboob
    • Luis Armando Martinez
    • Ali Omar Massoud
    • Sal Mawhinney
    • Alanna Guillen McNaughton
    • Niki Nguyễn
    • Rachel Oda
    • Sara Reese Orton
    • Kaelen Perrochet
    • free Sabyne Pierre
    • Callie Plapinger
    • Hayley Faith Rein
    • Kerry Ann Rork
    • Uriel Saldivar-Esteban
    • Shannon P. Saul
    • Indiana Schnicer
    • Owen C. Smith
    • Kathryn Casey Sorenson
    • Micalyn Struble
    • Isabel Florence Thompson
    • Mary Yen Tran
    • Mikayla Kim Tran
    • Roger Valencia Ricardez
    • Kaya Alika Van Dyke
    • Natalie Marie Van Orden
    • Samantha Vega
    • Catherine Marie Washington
    • Lucy R. Weiss
    • LeAnn Woo
    • Benjamin Wu
    • Katrina Holly Zhu

    LL.M. Graduates - Public Interest Law & Policy

    • Mosopefoluwa Elizabeth Omoniwa

    M.L.S. Graduates - Public Interest Law

    • Hester Johanneke de Klerk
    • Yadira Grajeda Garcia
    • Jasmin Emilia Lopez
    • Joanna Marie Rose
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