Elizabeth Franco ’15 has been telling stories for as long as she can remember. A Double Bruin, she majored in communication studies as a UCLA undergrad and earned her J.D. from UCLA School of Law. Today, Franco remembers that her dual role as legal advocate and storyteller clicked when she was a law student interning with the ACLU.

This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on March 27, 2023. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.

Michael Waterstone named dean of UCLA School of Law

by Sean Brenner

“UCLA School of Law is a storyteller’s dream,” says Annabel Adams, who joined the law school in 2022 as assistant dean of communications. “It’s not just that we have a treasure trove of stories waiting to be told, it’s also the caliber of impact we can speak to.”

That caliber of impact certainly extends to UCLA Law’s Office of Communications, which, in a matter of months, Adams has grown to include staff with a full set of the talents and tools that are necessary to elevate the law school’s storytelling operations.

As the debate over what responsibilities corporations carry in our society grows increasingly politicized, UCLA School of Law Distinguished Professor Stephen Bainbridge has entered the fray with his new book, The Profit Motive: Defending Shareholder Value Maximization (Cambridge University Press).

LOS ANGELES, CA – Ahilan Arulanantham, Professor from Practice and Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law, interviewed Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, Thursday, March 9 at Fordham University Law School. 

UCLA School of Law professor Scott Cummings has won the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2023, with an additional citation for distinction in teaching at the graduate level. The honor is UCLA’s highest recognition for excellence in the classroom.

What do creating complex financial deals, engaging with pirates on the high seas, and giving your child a bath have in common? UCLA School of Law interim dean and professor Russell Korobkin reveals that while the stakes certainly vary, each involves a negotiation.

During the two years since she made her first Instagram post – in which she asked her followers to weigh in on how to navigate the law school application process – UCLA School of Law student Luz Murillo ’24 has emerged as a popular storyteller, sharing many of the ups and downs of her law school journey.

Few Angelenos outside the human rights legal space have had opportunities to interact with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) – the leading human rights body in the western hemisphere. Thanks to the efforts of the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law, that will change this March.