Lauren van Schilfgaarde ’12, assistant professor of law, assistant director of the Native Nations Law and Policy Center, and expert in Tribal sovereignty and federal Indian law, has spent years studying how Tribal courts integrate traditional practices with modern legal systems.

If you’re driving north through L.A.’s San Fernando Valley on I-5 and look left at Sun Valley, you can see a major source of air pollution hiding in plain sight. Giant mounds of crushed concrete loom like towers from scrap yards that are called aggregate recycling facilities.

Leondra Kruger, a trailblazing lawyer and jurist who serves as a justice on the Supreme Court of California, will deliver the keynote address to the Class of 2025 at UCLA School of Law’s commencement ceremony on May 16.

Kruger is one of the most accomplished and respected people in the law today.

Orli Belman, a seasoned communications professional and UCLA graduate, has joined UCLA Law as the school’s assistant dean of communications.

Long before she came to UCLA School of Law, Ayisha Siddiqa ’27 left her mark on international environmental law. From advising the secretary-general of the United Nations to founding a groundbreaking legal tribunal, Siddiqa earned renown as a conscientious and dynamic climate advocate – so much so that Time magazine named her a woman of the year in 2023.

Tariffs are making headlines right now, partially due to President Trump’s tariffs on imports from Canada, Mexico, and China.

But what exactly is a tariff? And what are the pros and cons of using tariffs as an instrument of fiscal policy? Kimberly Clausing, tax law expert and the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at UCLA Law is here to help make sense of it all.

We sat down with Clausing to ask a few questions. Here is what she had to say.

UCLA School of Law professor Mark McKenna has been named a recipient of the Vanguard Award from the California Lawyers Association.

UCLA School of Law professor Blake Emerson has been named a recipient of the Early Career Scholars Medal from the American Law Institute.

The current U.S. Supreme Court term features major cases on gender-affirming care for minors, federal agency authority, firearms regulation, and religious liberty, along with significant questions about state power and administrative law. So far, the court has issued several decisions on employment and immigration law, with many high-profile cases still awaiting decision.