UCLA School of Law’s Law Fellows Program has received a boost in support from California ChangeLawyers for its recruiting and outreach efforts in California’s Central Valley.

For the seventh straight year, California ChangeLawyers, formerly known as the California Bar Foundation, has offered its largest award to support UCLA Law’s efforts to train high-potential undergraduate students from the diverse and underserved Central Valley to become more competitive law school applicants. The new grant is for $25,000.

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.

Students from UCLA School of Law have made an impact on one of the signature criminal justice issues of our time: reform of the money bail system.

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.

UCLA School of Law students David Griffith ’19 and Ajwang Rading ’20 have been awarded prestigious Langston Bar Association Scholarships for their excellence and leadership in law school.

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.

UCLA School of Law alumnus Travis Bell ’17 has received the first Ambassador Award ever presented by Gideon’s Promise. The award goes to a person who supports the Gideon’s Promise mission to raise the standard of indigent defense by building a movement of public defenders.

Jessie Kornberg '07, a leader in public interest law in Los Angeles and the president and CEO of public interest agency Bet Tzedek Legal Services, will deliver the commencement address at UCLA School of Law's 68th Commencement ceremony on Friday, May 17, in Dickson Court North on the UCLA campus.

More than 40 graduates of UCLA School of Law traveled from all over California to the inaugural black law alumni reunion celebration on March 16.