UCLA School of Law David Sanders Professor of Law and Medicine Jill Horwitz has received the ABA’s Outstanding Nonprofit Lawyer Award for 2023. The award, which is presented by the Nonprofit Organizations Committee of American Bar Association’s Business Law Section, goes to “accomplished and civic-minded nonprofit lawyers” in the categories of academic, attorney, in-house counsel and young attorney. Horwitz earned the honor “for distinguished academic achievement in the nonprofit sector.”

Can law and spirituality coexist? In Professor of Law Jonathan Zasloff’s course, “‘Foundations of Jewish Ethics,” they can, and do. Every week.

Zasloff, an expert in environmental and property law, is an ordained rabbi who teaches both undergraduate-level and law school courses on Jewish religion and thought systems. The law course is unique in its focus on Pirkei Avot, a five-chapter section of the Talmud that offers guidelines on ethics, from humility and kindness to judgment and punishment.