From left: Delaram Kamalpour, Mikayla Wasiri, Connor Trafton, Deeksha Kohli '20 and Andrew Tran.
From left: Delaram Kamalpour, Mikayla Wasiri, Connor Trafton, Deeksha Kohli '20 and Andrew Tran.

After winning the West Coast regional competition in November 2018, in January the UCLA Law Trial Team finished second in the country at the American Bar Association's Labor and Employment Law National Trial Competition.

UCLA Law students Charoula Melliou LL.M. ’19 (left) and Divya Rao ’20 stand at the U.S. Capitol, where they delivered recommendations on reducing plastic pollution.
UCLA Law students Charoula Melliou LL.M. ’19 (left) and Divya Rao ’20 stand at the U.S. Capitol, where they delivered recommendations on reducing plastic pollution.

With plastic waste becoming a global pollution crisis, faculty and students of UCLA School of Law’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic traveled to Washington, D.C., in January 2019 to brief Congress on legislation that could help reduce plastic pollution in oceans.

Brower
Brower

UCLA School of Law bestowed its first two certificates in trial advocacy to graduates Jason Brower and Gerard Gully at the law school’s commencement ceremony in May 2018.

Professor Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights

Professor Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2018) sheds light on one of the most successful yet least known civil rights movements in American history. Like minorities and women, corporations, too, have fought to win equal rights under the Constitution — and today they have nearly all the same rights as ordinary people.

Members of the UCLA Law bail practicum aim to lower or eliminate the bail for their clients at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Compton.
Members of the UCLA Law bail practicum aim to lower or eliminate the bail for their clients at the Los Angeles Superior Court in Compton.

Students from UCLA School of Law have made an impact on one of the signature criminal justice issues of our time: reform of the money bail system.

Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, delivers the keynote address at the UCLA Law criminal justice symposium on Feb. 22.
Vince Warren, executive director of the Center for Constitutional Rights, delivers the keynote address at the UCLA Law criminal justice symposium on Feb. 22.

Leading criminal justice scholars, practitioners and activists from across Southern California and the nation convened at UCLA School of Law on Feb. 22 for the first major event hosted by the school’s year-old Criminal Justice Program.

The day-long symposium, “Reimagining the Criminal Justice System,” was co-sponsored by UCLA Law’s Criminal Justice Law Review, with support from the Ann C. Rosenfeld Symposium fund.

Daniela Spencer and Allen Secretov '14.
From left: Daniela Spencer and Allen Secretov '14.

Making a smooth transition from big law firms to entertainment boutiques was the topic for an alum and a colleague who came to UCLA Law on January 30 to participate in the Ziffren Center's Supplemental Practical Legal Education (SPLE) program.

UCLA Law professor Jennifer Chacón moderates a panel featuring Kevin Johnson of UC Davis School of Law, Amada Armenta of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Ana Muñiz of UC Irvine School of Social Ecology and Julia Mendoza of Stanford Law School.
L to R: UCLA Law professor Jennifer Chacón moderates a panel featuring Kevin Johnson of UC Davis School of Law, Amada Armenta of UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, Ana Muñiz of UC Irvine School of Social Ecology and Julia Mendoza of Stanford Law School

The criminal justice system’s impact on Latina and Latino people in Southern California and across the nation was the focus of the annual UCLA Law Review symposium at UCLA School of Law on Feb. 8.

Rading (left) and Griffith
Rading (left) and Griffith

UCLA School of Law students David Griffith ’19 and Ajwang Rading ’20 have been awarded prestigious Langston Bar Association Scholarships for their excellence and leadership in law school.

Professor Eric Zolt

UCLA School of Law has established the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy in tribute to Professor Eric Zolt’s enormous contributions to the school and field of tax law.

Nina Zolt, professor Zolt’s sister, with Lowell Milken ’73, Zolt and Dean Jennifer Mnookin. 

 

 

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