Visitors to the 6500 block of Hollywood Blvd. find themselves surrounded by monuments to Los Angeles greatness. There are Walk of Fame stars for Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles. The building on the corner bears a massive mural featuring generations of Lakers legends. And above the intersection, a street sign recognizes another L.A. icon. It reads: “Schrader Bl.”

Scholars from UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights played a key part in defining the new crime of ecocide, which could have significant implications for battling climate destruction.

Christopher Roberts has joined UCLA School of Law as its chief strategic communications officer, overseeing all publications, messages, social media accounts, and more. A veteran in the field, Roberts most recently worked at the University of Texas School of Law and enjoyed an earlier career as an award-winning movie and theater producer. He earned his B.A. from Wesleyan University. In the conversation below, he shares other facts about himself and offers a look at his vision for communications at a dynamic law school in an always-evolving field.

Within days of his appointment to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1979, a landmark event that made him the first openly gay judge in the world, UCLA School of Law alumnus Stephen Lachs ’63 could tell that things would never be the same.

“In the near future, the theatrical business will be relatively robust. But three to five years? It’s anybody’s guess….

Three members of UCLA School of Law’s first-year class have been honored with the inaugural Susman Godfrey Prize, which recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of law students of color across the nation.

An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2021), the new book from UCLA School of Law Professor Scott Cummings, offers a close look at the lawyers who were central to Southern California’s social and labor movements from 1992 to 2008.

With the effects of climate change increasing across California, state legislators are exploring new policies to better protect communities – and students in UCLA School of Law’s California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic are helping.

UCLA School of Law is the No. 1 entertainment law school in the country, according to the annual rankings compiled by The Hollywood Reporter.

UCLA School of Law alumna Whitney A. Brown ’17 will clerk for Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2021-22 term. She will begin her service on the nation’s highest court in Washington, D.C., starting this summer.

Brown is the 20th UCLA Law graduate ever to clerk on the Supreme Court and the first since Rachel Bloomekatz ’08 clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer during the 2011-12 term.