LOS ANGELES, CA – In June 2023, the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law submitted a report to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) alongside the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA School of Law and several regional partners. The report details personal testimony and legal analyses of structural racism in migration throughout the Americas.
This October, Brenda Suttonwills ’92 was sworn in as the newest member of the City of Los Angeles Employee Relations Board (ERB), which oversees “the administration of employer-employee relations in city government.” She was appointed by Mayor Karen Bass and confirmed to the board by a 14–0 vote of the city council.
Controlling methane emissions is an urgent goal of governments around the world, but some jurisdictions are farther along than others.
This policy brief is a global survey of existing and proposed regulatory approaches to controlling anthropogenic methane emissions from the highest-emitting sources. The brief was written by Gabriel Greif, Emmett/Frankel Fellow of Environmental Law.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has signed a new law that addresses inequities in California’s complicated groundwater adjudication process.
Assembly Bill 779 by Assemblymember Lori Wilson aims to level the playing field for small water users and disadvantaged communities. It’s one of the only bills passed this legislative session focused on improving California’s management of groundwater.
“Remember that, as an attorney, you have incredible potential to make meaningful change in the lives of those around you,” says Diego Cartagena ’03, a proud double Bruin and the president and CEO of Bet Tzedek Legal Services.
When more than 40 experts in the law of charitable nonprofit organizations gathered at UCLA School of Law toward the end of 2022, the early fall weather had not yet turned cool, and the warmth outdoors reflected the positive spirit of the occasion.
UCLA School of Law is pleased to welcome back K-Sue Park, who will join the law school’s faculty in January as a professor of law. The move is a homecoming for Park, who served as a critical race studies fellow and lecturer at UCLA Law from 2017 to 2019.
Park comes to UCLA Law most recently from Georgetown University Law Center, where she has been an associate professor of law since 2019.
E. Tendayi Achiume, the Alicia Miñana Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law, has been awarded a prestigious MacArthur Fellowship, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation announced today. Recipients are selected for their exceptional creativity, their ability to transcend traditional boundaries and their promise for important future advances.
Grace Meng, who directs the Judge Rand Schrader Pro Bono Program at UCLA School of Law, has been selected to receive the Pro Bono Services Award from the Legal Services Corporation.