Recent UCLA School of Law graduate Dellara Gorjian ’20 has received the UC President’s Award for Outstanding Student Leadership for her advocacy on behalf of DACA recipients. The award was announced by President Janet Napolitano at the July 30 UC Regents meeting.

The 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium has launched a four-week series of webinars that keep the signature tradition going during the coronavirus pandemic.

Dear Members of the UCLA Law Community,

I hope that you are staying safe and healthy amidst the continued challenges of this summer.

UCLA School of Law Professor Andrew Verstein has been elected to the membership of the American Law Institute, among the most prestigious positions for legal academics and professionals.

The ALI is the “leading independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and otherwise improve the law.” Its wide array of projects and publications include restatements of the law and other heavily researched compendia “that are enormously influential in the courts and legislatures, as well as in legal scholarship and education.”

UCLA School of Law is pleased to welcome to its tenured or tenure-track faculty six leading scholars whose innovative research explores issues involving technology, business law, higher education, taxation and other areas on the cutting edge of legal scholarship.

Meirav Furth-Matzkin, whose cutting-edge scholarship focuses on the intersection of contract law, consumer protection and regulation, and behavioral law and economics, has joined UCLA Law as an assistant professor of law.

She comes from the University of Chicago Law School, where she served as the John M. Olin Law and Economics Fellow and as a lecturer in law.

Fernán Restrepo, who focuses his research on corporate law in the context of financial and non-financial companies, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

He comes from Stanford University, where he was most recently a research fellow with the Rock Center for Corporate Governance.

More than 150 leaders in human rights, critical race theory and third world approaches to international law convened at UCLA School of Law on March 8 for the symposium “Critical Perspectives on Race and Human Rights: Transnational Re-Imaginings.”

Andrew Verstein, an authority in contract law, corporate law, and securities regulation and litigation, has joined UCLA School of Law as a professor of law.

He comes from Wake Forest School of Law, where he served on the faculty since 2013, most recently as associate dean for research and academic programs.

Jonathan Glater, whose innovative scholarship focuses on the intersection of the law and higher education, has joined UCLA School of Law as a professor of law.

Glater comes from UC Irvine School of Law, where he served on the faculty for nearly a decade, earning the school’s distinguished teaching award for first-year teaching in 2015-16, among other honors.