As the dangers of climate change grow and global political tensions rise, UCLA, in partnership with the University of California, Berkeley and other UC campuses, former California Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. and China's top climate change official Xie Zhenhua, today launched a groundbreaking new initiative — the California-China Climate Institute — to spur further climate action through joint research, training and dialogue.
Two recent alumni returned to UCLA Law on October 2 to give students an overview of a typical media and entertainment private M&A deal from start to finish. Roey Gilberg '14 and Cat Zhang '17, associates at Sidley Austin, made their presentation as part of the Supplemental Practical Legal Education (SPLE) program offered by the Ziffren Center.
The Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law brought together leaders from film, television and government for a Ziffren In-DC conference titled "The Future of Content Protection" in October 2019. Top executives, producers and attorneys addressed the challenges and opportunities arising as piracy continues to erode bottom lines and new content platforms change the economics of the industry.
Kicking off a year of events centered on the theme of “defending democracy,” UCLA School of Law’s David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy welcomed ACLU Voting Rights Project Director Dale Ho for a three-day residency during the week of Sept. 23.
Writing from her office at UCLA School of Law in 1989, Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw used the term “intersectionality” in a University of Chicago Legal Forum article to highlight the way that different forms of social inequality or disadvantage manifest and compound each other. The article, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” launched a concept that has since gained great traction in academia and popular discourse.
The Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law was thrilled to welcome Cliff Gilbert-Lurie, a senior partner at Ziffren Brittenham, to the law school as part of the Ziffren Institute's Lunch with the Corner Office program. Lunch with the Corner Office provides select students the invaluable opportunity to discuss the entertainment industry with leading innovators in a small, intimate setting.
The scholarship of UCLA School of Law professor Katherine Stone has been cited in an opinion that a panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued on Oct. 22, Monster Energy v. City Beverages, involving a contractually mandated arbitration proceeding.
Press freedom is at risk worldwide, with life-threatening consequences for journalists, according to an all-star roster of experts who spoke at UCLA School of Law.
The panel "Cross-Border Legal Threats to Press Freedom" drew more than 150 law students, practitioners and media professionals to a Sept. 19 discussion moderated by Dale Cohen, director of UCLA Law's Documentary Film Legal Clinic.
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has awarded a grant of more than $1.3 million to UCLA School of Law to help strengthen legal institutions in California and across Indian country through the law school's Tribal Legal Development Clinic.
UCLA School of Law's A. Barry Cappello Trial Team started its 2019-20 season with a bang, sending teams to two tournaments in early October. At one tournament, the team walked away with the first-place trophy. At the other, UCLA Law won the Professionalism Award.