UCLA School of Law professor David Marcus has been elected to the membership of the American Law Institute, among the most prestigious positions for legal academics and professionals.
For over 25 years, Professor Hannah Garry has been laser focused on seeking justice and accountability for human rights abuses and atrocity situations across the globe, while making the U.S. a destination for the study and practice of human rights law. Starting in July, she will lead UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights to new heights as its next executive director and a professor from practice.
This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on April 17, 2018. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
Immigration inspiration: UCLA Law alumnus Luis Perez wins long fight for residency
by Joshua Rich
This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on March 1, 2018. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
Rising Up: Juvenile justice advocate Frankie Guzman reaches new heights
by Joshua Rich
As the Supreme Court’s most recent term has now ended, observers are left to consider the many historic decisions that will have a lasting impact for years to come.
In a June 30 webinar titled “From the Frontlines: The Supreme Court Rulings on Affirmative Action, LGBTQ Rights, and Student Debt,” public writings and even social media videos, UCLA School of Law experts have stepped in to break down some of the most pivotal decisions.
Here is what they had to say.
Affirmative action
Steven A. Bank is one of the most respected American authorities on the subject of soccer and the law.
This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on May 1, 2018. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
The outstanding work that UCLA School of Law professors Sharon Dolovich and Aaron Littman have completed since the start of the pandemic to highlight health and safety concerns in the nation’s prisons was celebrated at a June 2 event where they were presented with UCLA Public Impact Research Awards.
A team of student researchers from UCLA School of Law’s Prison Accountability Project have published a report that details incarcerated individuals’ experiences in California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) facilities during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UCLA School of Law David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine Jill Horwitz has received the ABA’s Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award for 2023. The award, which is presented by the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, goes to “accomplished and civic-minded nonprofit lawyers” in the categories of academic, attorney, in-house counsel and young attorney. Horwitz earned the honor “for distinguished academic achievement in the nonprofit sector.”