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.
Five UCLA School of Law professors, including leading scholars in civil rights, human rights and international law, have received appointments to endowed faculty chairs. Four of the chairs are being filled for the first time.
Two UCLA School of Law students have contributed to a new report that recommends methods of securing voting rights during the novel coronavirus pandemic that is striking as the November 2020 election approaches.
UCLA School of Law Professor Scott Cummings has been awarded the 2020-21 Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, the preeminent center of research on the European Union.
Adam Romero, a scholar and researcher at UCLA School of Law’s Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, was appointed deputy director of executive programs at the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing by Gov. Gavin Newsom.