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.

Rising rents have caused unprecedented housing insecurity in Los Angeles County, according to an in-depth report that UCLA School of Law students and faculty prepared with attorneys at Public Counsel.

Xiyin Tang, whose innovative scholarship examines the role that technological evolution plays in the law of intellectual property, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

Tang comes from Yale University, where she was a lecturer in computer science and a visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project.

Andrew Selbst, whose cutting-edge research focuses on areas where technology intersects with civil rights and civil liberties, has joined UCLA School of Law as an assistant professor of law.

Selbst comes from Data & Society Research Institute, where he was a postdoctoral scholar.

UCLA School of Law professor Richard Steinberg has been appointed to a position on the Trade and Environmental Policy Advisory Committee (TEPAC), a group that counsels and makes recommendations to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer made the appointment official on April 1. Steinberg will serve as a Democrat on the bipartisan committee for a two-year term.