As the world eagerly anticipates the kickoff of the Paris 2024 Olympics this week, headlines buzz with stories about the athletes, the cleanliness of the Seine River, and the cutting-edge role of artificial intelligence in capturing the games. But for UCLA Law professor Steven Bank, the legal landscape of the Olympics takes the spotlight.

Four UCLA School of Law professors, including leading scholars in election law, critical race studies, Native American law, and U.S.-China relations, have received appointments to endowed faculty chairs.

Faculty chairs acknowledge the distinction of the law school’s outstanding professors and are made possible by the generosity of UCLA Law’s alumni and friends. UCLA Law has 70 full-time faculty members and 39 endowed chairs.

An amicus brief that UCLA School of Law’s Sunita Patel and Jeanne Nishimoto prepared and submitted to the Supreme Court was quoted by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, a pivotal homelessness decision that the Court delivered in June.