For nearly two decades, Emily Alpert Reyes ’28 helped tell other people's stories. She covered a range of topics, including city government scandals and health crises, often chronicling the challenges facing marginalized Angelenos for the Los Angeles Times. She won national awards for her education reporting and witnessed moments most people never see — shadowing a drug overdose rescue crew on Skid Row, covering an FBI raid of City Hall and documenting a mother's heartbreak as she placed her disabled son in institutional care.
Join NYU Law's Rachel Barkow, in conversation with UCLA Law’s Máximo Langer, for a discussion on her new book, Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration. In Justice Abandoned, Barkow highlights six SCOTUS cases that, she argues, paved the way for massive growth in the American prisoner population and helped make the United States the world’s most prolific jailer.
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A new clinic at UCLA School of Law will give students the opportunity to provide meaningful, on-the-ground legal assistance to residents of greater Los Angeles who are housing insecure.
The inaugural director of the Housing Justice Clinic is Matthew Nickell, a civil rights and legal aid attorney who joins the law school from the Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, where he worked in the Special Litigation Section.