On the morning of January 13, a group of UCLA School of Law students enjoyed a rare opportunity to visit the Mexican consulate in Los Angeles. There, they observed lawyers who were hard at work on many of the most pressing immigration matters. They also received a special briefing regarding Mexico’s responses to the current ICE arrests, including the role of habeas corpus petitions at immigrant detention centers, and about ongoing economic relations between the two countries.

Imagine if civil court cases were decided by artificial intelligence instead of human judges. Some legal professionals say that prospect could become reality in the not-too-distant future.

UCLA School of Law professor Beth Colgan’s scholarship has been cited in a U.S. Supreme Court opinion in the case of Ellingworth v. United States, which the Court decided on January 20.

UCLA School of Law professor James Salzman has been honored with an invitation to join the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center’s 2027 Residency Program, one of the world’s most esteemed and highly selective projects for confronting complex challenges in science, law, government, the arts, and more.