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CALL Festival: Art and Action for People Impacted by Incarceration

… Lawyers, artists, activists and people impacted by the criminal justice system came together in April for the inaugural … two area juvenile detention facilities. Sponsored by the  Criminal Justice Program  and  Prison Law and Policy Program …

Change in Compton: UCLA Law Program Brings Bail Reform to Los Angeles County

… School of Law have made an impact on one of the signature criminal justice issues of our time: reform of the money bail system. This school year, UCLA Law’s  Criminal Justice Program  launched an innovative program in …

Q&A With Phoebe Kasdin: Inaugural Still She Rises Fellow Heads to Tulsa

… holistic representation to indigent mothers who are facing criminal charges and a panoply of related troubles, including … recipient of the George Kaiser Family Foundation Women's Justice Fellowship, Kasdin will receive a full salary for two … now the Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow with UCLA Law's Criminal Justice Program . Now independent, Still She Rises …

UCLA School of Law Report Provides Recommendations to Reform the Unjust Treatment of Sidewalk Vendors

… experienced increased police harassment, arrests, onerous criminal justice debt, and even incarceration. These and other … new report issued by law students in UCLA School of Law's Criminal Defense Clinic . Criminalizing the Sidewalk: Why the …

Law Students for Decarceration

… (LSFD) is a student group that strives to advance justice within the criminal law system. We will do this by promoting criminal law dialogue, practice, reform, policy, …

Langer Named President of American Society of Comparative Law

… authority in domestic, comparative and international criminal law and justice, Langer serves as director of UCLA Law’s Transnational Program on Criminal Justice  and as faculty director of UCLA Law’s …

Plea Bargaining

… how plea bargaining, once considered unique to American criminal justice, has spread around the world and discusses its … of this research discusses how a substantial percentage of criminal convictions around the world are currently reached …

Governor Brown Grants Pardons to Five Clients of UCLA Law Clinic

… Members of UCLA Law's Criminal Defense Clinic stand with their client Phal Sok, who … Brown in 2018. Thanks to the work of UCLA School of Law's Criminal Defense Clinic , five Southern California community … Law students received pardons during a flurry of criminal justice-related activity in Gov. Brown's waning months in …

UCLA Launches Institute to Explore Legal, Policy Impact of Emerging Tech

… 24, the institute hosted its first symposium, “Algorithmic Criminal Justice?” which examined the use of algorithms in policing and criminal justice, including approaches to identifying and …

Bail Practicum: Securing Success in County Courtrooms

… School of Law’s innovative Bail Practicum (now Pretrial Justice Clinic ) stood up and advocated for four incarcerated … school’s clinical and experiential education program and Criminal Justice Program . Established in 2018, it combines … Alicia Virani ’11, the Gilbert Foundation Director of the Criminal Justice Program, who teaches the practicum and …