Mark McKenna has joined UCLA School of Law. The intellectual property and technology law expert will serve as a faculty co-director of the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sport Law and will be teaching torts this fall.

Joseph Fishkin, an expert in election law, constitutional law, and employment discrimination law, has joined the faculty of UCLA School of Law. Fishkin, author of the award-winning book Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity (Oxford University Press, 2014), will be teaching four courses in the coming year: Election Law, Employment Discrimination Law, a seminar on Direct Democracy, and a Law Through Scholarship course on Law and Economic Inequality.

Cary Franklin has joined UCLA School of Law as the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute. She will be teaching two courses this fall, Reproductive Rights and Justice and Law, Gender, and Sexuality.

When a same-sex marriage ban was overturned in California, a federal court cited research from UCLA School of Law's Williams Institute 30 times. President Barack Obama used Williams's research in an executive order prohibiting workplace discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. And after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in favor of marriage equality, Justice Anthony Kennedy described the institute's research as the deciding factor.

Scholars from UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights played a key part in defining the new crime of ecocide, which could have significant implications for battling climate destruction.