
More than 300 members of the UCLA School of Law community gathered for the second annual U. Serve L.A. celebration on April 9, raising $100,000 for UCLA Law’s initiatives in public interest law.

UCLA School of Law professor Adam Winkler has won the 2019 Scribes Book Award for his celebrated exploration of corporate personhood, We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2018).

UCLA School of Law emeritus professors Richard Abel and Joel Handler are among the first winners of the Law and Society Association’s Legacy Award. They will be honored at the LSA meeting in Washington, D.C., on May 30.
Acclaimed human rights law experts Richard Dicker and Ralph Wilde taught Spring 2019 short courses on international justice at UCLA Law.

UCLA School of Law professor Hiroshi Motomura was awarded an honorary degree by Loyola University New Orleans at the school’s commencement ceremony on May 11.

Culminating years of work led by UCLA School of Law professor Jill Horwitz, on May 20 the American Law Institute approved a comprehensive compendium of the legal issues that confront charitable nonprofit institutions.

UCLA School of Law professor Joanna Schwartz was cited by U.S. Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor in her dissenting opinion in Nieves v. Bartlett. The Court decided the case on May 28, with a majority of the justices holding that probable cause generally overrides a claim that a retaliatory police arrest violated the First Amendment.

More than 2,000 people convened as UCLA School of Law hosted its 68th commencement ceremony on May 17, celebrating the Class of 2019 with glitz, grandeur and inspiring speeches.
Family, friends, faculty, colleagues and classmates gathered on UCLA’s Dickson Court to toast 313 juris doctor (J.D.) graduates, 198 master of law (LL.M.) recipients and one person who earned a doctor of juridical science (S.J.D.) degree.

As the number of documentary films has exploded on streaming services and in theaters, the medium's blend of journalism and entertainment has caused increased reverberations in the law and culture, according to an all-star panel of entertainment attorneys, scholars and filmmakers who spoke at UCLA School of Law on June 4.

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on Professor Kenneth Karst
Kenneth Karst, an influential constitutional law scholar, teacher and longtime faculty member who had a profound effect in shaping UCLA School of Law, died on April 9. He was 89 years old.