UCLA School of Law professor Adam Winkler has won the 2019 Scribes Book Award for his celebrated exploration of corporate personhood, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2018).
UCLA School of Law emeritus professors Richard Abel and Joel Handler are among the first winners of the Law and Society Association’s Legacy Award. They will be honored at the LSA meeting in Washington, D.C., on May 30.
Eleven alumni of UCLA School of Law, all partners in the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, have joined together to endow a scholarship at their alma mater.
The Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher Endowed Scholarship was made possible through considerable recent giving by Karen Bertero ’81, J. Keith Biancamano ’91, Peter Hanlon ’77, Michelle Hodges ’96, Timothy Loose ’05, Patricia Tan Openshaw ’92, Heather Richardson ’06, Robert Serio ’85, Steven Sletten ’82, Eric Vandevelde ’05 (with Karen Tamis ’05) and Peter Wardle ’97.
The Black Law Students Association at UCLA School of Law was named 2019’s Student Organization of the Year at the school’s fifth annual Student Leadership Breakfast on April 28.
In presenting the award to BLSA co-chair Ajwang Rading ’20, Student Bar Association president Luis Vasquez ’19 cited the organization’s impactful efforts to promote diversity and excellence in legal education.
Lawyers, artists, activists and people impacted by the criminal justice system came together in April for the inaugural Connecting Art and Law for Liberation Festival, blending art and action in a weekend-long series of events at UCLA and two area juvenile detention facilities.
Elizabeth Moeller, the assistant dean of career services at UCLA School of Law, was elected president of the National Association for Law Placement at the organization’s annual meeting in San Diego on April 12.
Before she assumes her role as president, Moeller will serve as the group’s president-elect during the 2019-20 year, working alongside NALP president Georgia Emery Gray, who is the director of legal personnel and recruiting at Cleary Gottlieb.
Acclaimed human rights law experts Richard Dicker and Ralph Wilde taught Spring 2019 short courses on international justice at UCLA Law.
UCLA today celebrated the opening of the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Koreatown.
UCLA School of Law professor Hiroshi Motomura was awarded an honorary degree by Loyola University New Orleans at the school’s commencement ceremony on May 11.
Culminating years of work led by UCLA School of Law professor Jill Horwitz, on May 20 the American Law Institute approved a comprehensive compendium of the legal issues that confront charitable nonprofit institutions.