Several 2019 graduates of the Promise Institute have earned prestigious fellowships at leading human rights organizations.

Kristi Ueda '19 was named UCLA Law's Promise Institute Human Rights Watch Fellow, and will receive a full year's salary to join the prestigious advocacy organization.

The Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law has entered into a partnership with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on a series of research and advisory initiatives to confront global food security, nutrition, safety and quality.

Rising rents have caused unprecedented housing insecurity in Los Angeles County, according to an in-depth report that UCLA School of Law students and faculty prepared with attorneys at Public Counsel.

UCLA School of Law co-hosted the Trial by Combat mock trial national championship in June, the first time the school has been involved with the event. More than 5,000 undergraduate students nationwide participate in mock trial competitions, and Trial by Combat is limited to the top 16.

UCLA School of Law's trial team reached the semifinals at the Top Gun National Trial Competition, one of the most prestigious and challenging trial events in the country, in Waco, Texas on June 5-9.

UCLA won all four preliminary trials against some of the best trial programs in the country: Loyola Law School, McGeorge School of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law and the eventual champion, Campbell University Wiggins School of Law.

Xiyin Tang, whose innovative scholarship examines the role that technological evolution plays in the law of intellectual property, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

Tang comes from Yale University, where she was a lecturer in computer science and a visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.

Andrew Selbst, whose cutting-edge research focuses on areas where technology intersects with civil rights and civil liberties, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

Selbst comes from Data & Society Research Institute, where he was a postdoctoral scholar.

From Capitol Hill and Silicon Valley to the heart of Hollywood, UCLA School of Law alums from across the entertainment, sports and technology sectors returned to the campus in 2018-19, offering insights and career guidance in small group settings to students of the Ziffren Center for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law.

UCLA School of Law professor Richard Steinberg has been appointed to a position on the Trade and Environmental Policy Advisory Committee (TEPAC), a group that counsels and makes recommendations to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer made the appointment official on April 1. Steinberg will serve as a Democrat on the bipartisan committee for a two-year term.