On May 2, one year after the leak of a draft Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. Wade, UCLA Law’s Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy (CRHLP) hosted a press conference to announce a new legal hotline created by the Southern California Legal Alliance for Reproductive Justice (SoCal LARJ).
California Attorney General Rob Bonta will deliver the keynote address to the Class of 2023 at UCLA School of Law’s commencement ceremony on May 12.
A trailblazing Filipino American, Bonta was born in the Philippines and raised in California before attending Yale University, Oxford and Yale Law School. He returned to California to embark on a distinguished career as a lawyer and advocate, including as a litigator in private practice, as a deputy city attorney in San Francisco, and as an elected member of the Alameda City Council and then the California State Assembly.
UCLA School of Law and its nationally renowned program in public interest law and policy solidified its position as the home of the country’s most promising public interest lawyers in 2023, as six graduating students in the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy earned prestigious fellowships to serve communities across the United States.
“Welcome to Sacramento, California” reads the sign that greets Adrianne Davies, Owen McAleer and Gabi Rosenfeld as they step off the airplane.
Members of the UCLA School of Law community are mourning the death of Charles “Chuck” Williams, a celebrated philanthropist and businessman who co-founded the Williams Institute at the law school in 2001. Williams died at home on April 12, 2023. He was 88 years old.
When Khaled Beydoun ’04 set foot on UCLA School of Law’s campus as a 1L, he could never have imagined how quickly the world would change around him.
Two weeks into law school, the 9/11 terror attacks happened, and Beydoun, who is Arab American and Muslim, felt that his community became collateral damage in the aftermath.
Eileen A. Scallen, a longtime teacher of courses in civil procedure and evidence, whose uncommon dedication to supporting students at UCLA School of Law has been roundly applauded since she joined the law school a decade ago, earned the 2023 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching.
UCLA School of Law professor Scott Cummings has been awarded a 2023 Guggenheim Fellowship to support his research and writing about the impact that lawyers have played in backsliding democracies around the world.
UCLA School of Law’s Rose Chan Loui, a dynamic legal leader in community-engaged nonprofits, has joined the board of directors of the Mayor’s Fund for Los Angeles.