UCLA School of Law’s Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits has received a $100,000 gift from the education company ECMC Group to create the Maurice Salter Endowed Lecture in Nonprofits and Philanthropy. Through the lecture series, leading academic, government and industry experts will address critical issues in the nonprofit field and connect with students and practitioners in the sector.

E. Tendayi Achiume recently concluded her five-year term as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. An international expert on human rights law, Achiume is the inaugural Alicia Miñana Professor of Law and former faculty director of UCLA Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights.

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The twin impacts of the 2022 elections and the work of the Jan. 6 committee in Congress continue to develop as the new year begins. In this dynamic atmosphere, UCLA School of Law’s Safeguarding Democracy Project has assembled a slate of events for the spring semester, kicked off by a conversation with celebrated journalist Rachel Maddow on Jan. 26.

For more than two decades, UCLA School of Law professor Joanna Schwartz has been a leading authority on civil rights, with a focus on police misconduct. In 2020, with the murder of George Floyd and the national reckoning that followed, her work was thrust into the national spotlight.

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For the past six years, the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy has fostered entrepreneurship through the Lowell Milken Institute–Sandler Prize for New Entrepreneurs, a business plan competition exclusively for teams of UCLA students, each of which must include one student from the law school.

The Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy (LMI) is celebrating its first full decade of operations—10 years during which the institute has strengthened UCLA Law’s academic standing in the world of business law while guiding hundreds of students toward successful careers in business and tax law.

Embracing its ambitious goal of preparing the next generation of leaders in business law, LMI is, without doubt, a critical piece of the fabric of UCLA Law.

Professor emeritus Herbert Morris, a globally renowned scholar and teacher of law and philosophy and a foundational member of UCLA School of Law’s faculty, died on Dec. 14. He was 94.

An instrumental leader at UCLA for seven decades, Morris earned his bachelor’s degree at UCLA, law degree from Yale Law School and doctorate in philosophy from Oxford University. He joined the faculty of UCLA’s philosophy department in 1956 and the law school in 1962.