Alumni and friends raised $181.2 million for UCLA School of Law during the Centennial Campaign for UCLA, far exceeding the school's goal during the campus-wide fundraising drive that was designed to prepare the university for its second century of excellence.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of UCLA, the Centennial Campaign raised $5.49 billion.
This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on February 26, 2020. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
How a UCLA Law fellowship helped one student live her dreams
by Joshua Rich
UCLA School of Law’s trailblazing Law Fellows Program has won the 2020 Diversity Leadership Award from the American Bar Association’s litigation section.
The award honors “those who have made outstanding commitments to promoting full and equal participation in the legal profession through the encouragement and inclusion of women, people of color, persons with disabilities, and/or persons of differing sexual orientations and gender identities.”
Fifteen alumni of UCLA School of Law are among the top 100 attorneys in the entertainment industry, according to The Hollywood Reporter's 2020 Power 100 ranking, including two who joined the publication's list of "legal legends."
Many of the honorees have continued their close affiliations with UCLA and the law school's Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law, serving on boards of advisors.
The UCLA Law honorees include:
Kal Raustiala was recently named the Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law, joining Kimberlé Crenshaw — the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights — as an inaugural holder of an endowed chair affiliated with UCLA School of Law's Promise Institute for Human Rights. Raustiala, also the director of the UCLA Ronald
Students and faculty members with UCLA School of Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic played a key role in securing the release last week of an at-risk inmate from a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing center as part of the clinic’s broader effort to reduce the acute risks to prisoners from the coronavirus.
UCLA School of Law has established a fund to assist students with urgent needs brought on by the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and address some of the long-term impacts of the related disruptions. The Law Student Wellness Support Fund provides:
Student-run startup companies in technology, dental hygiene and women’s clothing won the top awards in UCLA School of Law’s $100,000 Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler Prize for New Entrepreneurs competition, which concluded its fifth-annual event on April 20.
More than 200 people joined an April 23 webinar, hosted by the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law, where a distinguished panel discussed the impact that the coronavirus pandemic has had on the entertainment business.
Former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will deliver the keynote address to the UCLA School of Law Class of 2020 at the law school’s virtual commencement ceremony on May 15.
Holder is a partner in the Washington, D.C., office of Covington & Burling and among the most accomplished and experienced lawyers in the country. He served as attorney general during the Obama administration, from 2009 to 2015. He is the first African American ever to serve as attorney general, and his six years in the position marked the third-longest tenure for an attorney general in U.S. history.