Expanding UCLA School of Law's role as a national leader in immigration law and boosting its robust immigration programming and clinics, the school has established the Center for Immigration Law and Policy with a $5 million commitment from alumna Alicia Miñana '87 and her husband, Rob Lovelace.
For the third consecutive year, the Ziffren Institute on Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law presented 5 Years Out, an event aimed at providing current law students a candid look at the day-to-day work lives of UCLA Law alums now five years into their professional careers. On Feb.
Alumni and friends raised $181.2 million for UCLA School of Law during the Centennial Campaign for UCLA, far exceeding the school's goal during the campus-wide fundraising drive that was designed to prepare the university for its second century of excellence.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of UCLA, the Centennial Campaign raised $5.49 billion.
This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on February 26, 2020. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
How a UCLA Law fellowship helped one student live her dreams
by Joshua Rich
UCLA School of Law student Sofia Pedroza ’21 has received the 2020 Skye Donald Spirit of Community Award, which is presented each year to students who demonstrate integrity, generosity and a focus on the well-being of the law school community.
The UCLA Law Trial Team is headed to the National Trial Competition.
UCLA School of Law’s Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy is celebrating several recent big wins by students on its transactional law competition teams.
The victory followed successes at the Feb. 14 Pircher, Nichols & Meeks Joint Venture Challenge, where teams including students from UCLA Law and UCLA Anderson School of Management competed against teams from USC Gould School of Law and USC Marshall School of Business. Law students David Gallop ’22 and Dana Ontiveros ’21 were on the winning team, while Timothy Roofian ’22 and Mary Ramzy ’22 were part of the squad that finished third. The Lowell Milken Institute and the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate co-sponsor the annual competition with the law firm of Pircher, Nichols & Meeks.
Jocelyn Samuels, the executive director of UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, was nominated on March 16 to a seat on the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency that enforces federal laws barring workplace discrimination.
Amid in-person school closures and global travel restrictions, UCLA School of Law has created online trial competitions for the nearly 10,000 law students and undergraduates whose competitions were cancelled as the world grapples with the COVID-19 crisis.
UCLA School of Law has created expansive databases that keep track of developments related to COVID-19 in prisons and jails nationwide. Launched amid the mounting coronavirus crisis — including reports of infections in high-risk places where large numbers of people are packed into tight quarters — the resources address two key areas.