A member of UCLA School of Law’s faculty for more than two decades, Russell Korobkin is the Richard C. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Law, and he has served as vice dean for the last seven years. With the departure of Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin – who will become the chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison next month – Korobkin answered a new call to service at the law school that has been his home since 2001.

UCLA School of Law has received a gift of $4.265 million from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. This generous contribution creates two chairs in Native American law that are endowed in the honor of, respectively, Distinguished Professor Carole Goldberg and Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria Tribal Chairman Greg Sarris. The chairs will recruit, retain, and support faculty members of the highest professional caliber, who will advance the study and practice of tribal law.

For three Wednesdays in June, a record crowd of executives, lawyers, and other entertainment industry stakeholders joined together for the 46th annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium, sponsored by the law school’s Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law.

Taking on one of the most urgent issues in American political and legal life, UCLA School of Law Professor Richard Hasen has launched the Safeguarding Democracy Project to

UCLA School of Law graduates helped local residents score a big win in May, when Los Angeles County transportation officials axed a decades-long plan for a multibillion-dollar expansion of the 710 Freeway. As the principal corridor diesel trucks use to haul goods from the ports to Southern California, the 710 has been a major source of pollution in the predominantly Black and Latino communities nearby.

UCLA School of Law professor Cheryl Harris has won the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2022, the university’s highest recognition for excellence in the classroom.

UCLA School of Law lecturer Justin Bernstein has won the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2022, the university’s highest recognition for excellence in the classroom. Bernstein’s award is for full-time lecturers, adjunct professors, clinical faculty members, and teaching assistants.

In the wake of the June 24 Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark 1973 ruling that provided a constitutional protection for abortions, scholars from UCLA, policymakers, and reproductive health practitioners discussed what the future may hold.

In the fall of 1981, a couple of UCLA law students sat together, alphabetized by last name in their 1L section. They were Laurie and Guy Halgren, both ’84, who by that time had been married to each other for about three years.

Today, the Halgrens are both nearing the end of impressive careers—Laurie as a judge and Guy in private practice. But their road to law school, and to each other, was winding, as they described in a recent conversation punctuated by laughter and the banter of a couple who have been a team for many years.

UCLA School of Law professor Russell Korobkin has been appointed to serve as the law school’s interim dean. He will assume his duties on June 13, replacing the outgoing dean, Jennifer L. Mnookin. In May, Mnookin was announced as the next chancellor of the University of Wisconsin-Madison.