Jessie Chen ’22 is an associate at Blank Rome, where she specializes in asset-based lending and agricultural financing. She’s built a reputation for taking initiative, earning the trust of clients and partners alike — and making sure the lawyers who come after her don’t have to figure things out alone.

The latest major development in abortion law has brought global headlines – and swift action by members of UCLA School of Law’s Center on Reproductive Health, Law, and Policy (CRHLP). On May 1, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a decision in Louisiana v. FDA that effectively halted patients from obtaining through the mail or a pharmacy the abortion and miscarriage drug mifepristone. Then, on May 4, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a one-week administrative stay.

Members of the UCLA School of Law community are remembering the life of Arthur Greenberg, who died on April 27 at age 98 and left a lasting impact on the school and the city of Los Angeles. A member of UCLA Law’s first graduating class, in 1952, he went on to co-found the law firm that is now known as Greenberg Glusker, in 1959.

UCLA School of Law professor Rick Hasen’s election law scholarship was recently cited in a U.S. Supreme Court opinion in a landmark voting rights case.

The U.S. Supreme Court convened on April 29 for the current term’s final day of scheduled oral arguments. One case on the justices’ docket, Mullin v. Doe, was brought by Syrian nationals who are challenging the Trump administration’s attempt to dismantle the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program, under which they legally remain in the country.

UCLA School of Law professor Angela R. Riley was elected on April 22 to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among the world’s preeminent learned societies of scholars, scientists, and artists.

Members of the UCLA School of Law community gathered on April 16 to celebrate the publication of Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw’s new book, Backtalker (Simon & Schuster, 2026).

To everyone who was there, the special gathering on a sunny Sunday in March was a joyous and warm affair – and an event that they never fully expected to happen.

A year ago, Kimberly Clausing, the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law, sat down with us to explain what tariffs are, how they work, and why their broad use was cause for concern. Since then, the trade landscape has shifted dramatically — with sweeping new tariffs, a landmark Supreme Court ruling, and mounting evidence of economic fallout.

This Earth Day, environmental advocates are looking backward as well as forward. With the U.S. federal government so dramatically overhauling environmental policy, history shows how American social movements of the 19th and 20th centuries overcame seemingly insurmountable odds to preserve public lands and pass laws protecting human health.