Law and Social Welfare

A four-year program offered by UCLA Law and UCLA’s Social Welfare Department, leading to a J.D. and a Master of Social Work degree.

This integrated course of study prepares lawyers who want to focus on social welfare law and programs for work in the field. Social workers interested in legal issues guiding social welfare policy also benefit from this program. Requirements include satisfactory completion of at least seventy-five (75) first-year and elective law school semester units and at least eighty-seven (87) social welfare quarter units.

More Info About the M.S.W. Requirement

For more information about the Social Welfare portion of the Joint Degree Program, contact the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs at 310.825.7737 and sw@luskin.ucla.edu.

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Sep 18, 2025

Brad Sears talks to NPR News about discrimination against trans people in the workforce

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09 18
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
DTLA
Documenting Deportation: A Dialogue on Race, Removal, and Resistance

Join us for a conversation about how we visualize the system disappearing immigrants from the streets of Los Angeles and beyond. This in-person, public event will discuss the current siege on migrant communities as the most-recent attack in a long history of racist immigration enforcement. The event will also introduce Mapping Deportations—a new website and organizing tool—that unmasks the past and present of structural racism in the U.S. immigration regime.

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