UCLA Law has become a West Coast hub for impactful human rights work, with comprehensive curricular offerings, illustrious faculty members, a stream of expert speakers from around the world, active student organizations and journals, clinical opportunities that open the doors for students to make a difference and connections to UCLA’s many impactful human rights efforts. The Promise Institute for Human Rights is identifying new pathways to human rights accountability, recognition of atrocities and challenges to impunity for human rights abuses. UCLA Law's International and Comparative Law Program offers outstanding programs in a variety of international law disciplines.
Areas of Focus
Human Rights
Faculty with experience at the United Nations, The Hague and in conflict zones lead students in the search for new solutions to the human rights crises of our times.
Centers of Excellence
Our Faculty
Khaled M. Abou El Fadl
Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Professor of Law
E. Tendayi Achiume
Professor of Law
Alicia Miñana Chair in Law
Ahilan Arulanantham
Professor from Practice
Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law & Policy
Joseph Berra
Human Rights in the Americas Project Director
Richard Dicker
Lecturer in Law
Stephen Gardbaum
Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law
Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights
Máximo Langer
David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law
Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice
Kal Raustiala
Promise Institute Distinguished Professor of Comparative and International Law
Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations
Richard H. Steinberg
Professor of Law
Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Chair in Law
Professor of Political Science
Lara Stemple
Assistant Dean for Graduate Studies and International Student Programs
Alex Wang
Professor of Law
Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment