This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on March 1, 2018. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
Rising Up: Juvenile justice advocate Frankie Guzman reaches new heights
by Joshua Rich
This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on May 1, 2018. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
Before Shiu-Ming Cheer ’00 made her way to the halls of UCLA Law, she was already involved in the pursuit of social justice as an undergraduate activist at UC Berkeley. Her activism came to a head in 1995 when she, along with other student organizers, was arrested after performing a sit-in during a UC Regents’ meeting to protest the UC system’s plans to eliminate its affirmative action policy.
On May 12, more than a thousand family members, mentors, teachers and other guests came to UCLA to celebrate the School of Law’s Class of 2023 and watch them cross the threshold from students to alumni.
Outside UCLA’s Dickson Court, guests bought flowers and leis for the graduates, among them 319 who earned juris doctor (J.D.) degrees, 227 who earned master of laws (LL.M.) degrees and 38 who earned masters of legal studies (M.L.S.) degrees.
When Khaled Beydoun ’04 set foot on UCLA School of Law’s campus as a 1L, he could never have imagined how quickly the world would change around him.
Two weeks into law school, the 9/11 terror attacks happened, and Beydoun, who is Arab American and Muslim, felt that his community became collateral damage in the aftermath.
Elizabeth Franco ’15 has been telling stories for as long as she can remember. A Double Bruin, she majored in communication studies as a UCLA undergrad and earned her J.D. from UCLA School of Law. Today, Franco remembers that her dual role as legal advocate and storyteller clicked when she was a law student interning with the ACLU.
This article was originally published on the UCLA Newsroom website on March 27, 2023. We share it here with UCLA Newsroom's permission.
Michael Waterstone named dean of UCLA School of Law
by Sean Brenner