Michael Karanicolas, a noted public policy authority with more than a decade leading efforts devoted to better understanding freedom of expression, transparency, and digital rights, has joined UCLA School of Law as the inaugural executive director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy.

UCLA School of Law Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, among the world’s oldest and most esteemed learned societies of scholars, scientists, and artists.