The American Law Institute, an "independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law," has elected Máximo Langer, Faculty Director of the Criminal Justice Program as one of its new members.
On December 18 and 19, 2018, Máximo Langer hosted a workshop at the University of Buenos Aires Law School on "New Trends in Criminal Procedure" as way to advance two of the goals of the UCLA Transnational of Program of Criminal Justice: 1) creating new bridges and channels of communication and mutual learning between American legal academia and legal system and the legal academia and legal system of other countri
The career and jurisprudence of Judge A. Wallace Tashima of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit was the subject of a day-long symposium on Jan. 25, featuring present and former clerks and colleagues who celebrated the trailblazing jurist’s half century of public service and leadership.
Professor Adam Winkler’s We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2018) sheds light on one of the most successful yet least known civil rights movements in American history. Like minorities and women, corporations, too, have fought to win equal rights under the Constitution — and today they have nearly all the same rights as ordinary people.
Leading criminal justice scholars, practitioners and activists from across Southern California and the nation convened at UCLA School of Law on Feb. 22 for the first major event hosted by the school’s year-old Criminal Justice Program.
The day-long symposium, “Reimagining the Criminal Justice System,” was co-sponsored by UCLA Law’s Criminal Justice Law Review, with support from the Ann C. Rosenfeld Symposium fund.
The criminal justice system’s impact on Latina and Latino people in Southern California and across the nation was the focus of the annual UCLA Law Review symposium at UCLA School of Law on Feb. 8.
UCLA School of Law has established the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy in tribute to Professor Eric Zolt’s enormous contributions to the school and field of tax law.
More than 150 leaders in human rights, critical race theory and third world approaches to international law convened at UCLA School of Law on March 8 for the symposium “Critical Perspectives on Race and Human Rights: Transnational Re-Imaginings.”
Amid a long-running financial crisis aggravated by recession and the ravages of hurricanes Maria and Irma, Puerto Rico and its bondholders have reached a deal that will bring billions of dollars of relief to the island’s economy, thanks in substantial part to two UCLA School of Law professors.
Daniel Bussel and Kenneth Klee were appointed in 2016 to advise on a complex and hotly contested restructuring of $18 billion in bond debt and a related tussle over Puerto Rico’s sales tax.
UCLA School of Law has been named the No. 1 entertainment law school in America for a sixth straight year by The Hollywood Reporter.
In total, 20 alumni of UCLA Law appeared on The Hollywood Reporter’s 2019 lists of Power Lawyers and legends in entertainment law.
Five alumni ranked as legal legends: John Branca ’75, Melanie Cook ’78 and Kenneth Ziffren ’65 of Ziffren Brittenham; Kenneth Kleinberg ’67 of Kleinberg Lange Cuddy & Carlo; and Schuyler Moore ’81 of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger.