Mario Biagioli, an authority in the intersection of law, science and technology, has joined UCLA as a distinguished professor of law and communications.
Biagioli comes to UCLA School of Law and UCLA’s Department of Communication from UC Davis, where he served as a distinguished professor in the law school, history department and Science and Technology Studies program. He also served as the founding director of UC Davis’ Center for Science and Innovation Studies and as an associate faculty member of the Cultural Studies program and the Critical Theory Program.
People incarcerated in U.S. prisons tested positive for COVID-19 at a rate 5.5 times higher than the general public, according to a new paper co-authored by the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project and researchers at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
UCLA School of Law is pleased to welcome renowned professor of economics, trade and taxation Kimberly Clausing. Clausing will join UCLA Law’s nationally recognized tax law faculty in 2021.
The Thormund A. Miller and Walter Mintz Professor of Economics at Reed College since 2007, Clausing is a prominent voice in international trade, international finance and public finance who focuses her research on the taxation of multinational firms.
Celebrated British poet Karen McCarthy Woolf, recently named a Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar, is settling in for a residency at UCLA, bringing her poet’s eye to the work of students and faculty at UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights. Through a collaboration with UCLA’s English department, McCarthy Woolf will spend the year as poet-in-residence with the Promise Institute.
Herbert Morris, a preeminent member of the faculty at UCLA School of Law and the UCLA Philosophy Department, has received the 2019-20 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award, an honor that goes to retired University of California professors of longstanding influence and leadership in their fields.
Morris is the first law professor to receive the honor, which was established in 1983.
The UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project, in collaboration with the Bronx Defenders, Columbia Law School’s Center for Institutional and Social Change and Zealous, has launched a new electronic database of COVID-19-related materials designed to help lawyers, advocates, researchers, journalists and others interested in challenging, remedying, or drawing attention to the grave risk that COVID-19 poses to individuals who are detained.
Recent UCLA School of Law graduate Deeksha Kohli ’20 reached the semifinals and finished in third place in the Top Gun National Trial Competition, perhaps the most difficult trial competition in the United States.
The killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and many others before them are manifestations of deeply entrenched structures of racism within the United States.
It is these structures that account for the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the very same communities that are subject to racial violence.
Dear Law School Community,
This is an enormously painful and tumultuous moment. You likely already saw the message sent last night by Chancellor Block and our collective UCLA leadership, but I also wanted to write to you directly. First and foremost, I want to reiterate the message of that earlier email. To the Black members of our community: we see you. Black Lives Matter.
UCLA School of Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin has been elected to a three-year term on the board of trustees of the Law School Admission Council, the nonprofit organization that administers the Law School Admission Test and runs several initiatives to increase diversity in legal education and the legal profession.
Mnookin is UCLA Law’s Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law. She joined the law school’s faculty in 2005 and has served as dean since 2015.