The Health Law Society at UCLA is proud to present our annual Health Law Networking Night! This event is a special evening where our law school convenes top practitioners in the health law space to meet and mingle with students interested in a career in health law over tasty food and drinks! Practitioners typically include attorneys from law firms, in-house, academia, public interest, the judiciary, and the government.
This event is open to all UCLA Law Students, Alumni, Staff, and Faculty! We will have a varied assortment of drinks and food for attendees who RSVP!
Beverages for the evening are being graciously provided by Foley & Lardner. Our event is also being supported through generous donations from Jones Day, Ropes & Gray, King & Spalding, and McDermott Will & Schulte.
When: Monday, April 6th from 6pm-8pm
Where: UCLA School of Law Shapiro Courtyard
Interested Law Students can RSVP HERE!
Interested Attorneys and Alumni can RSVP HERE!
The Behind Bars Data Project at UCLA School of Law has published the first comprehensive dataset of deaths in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) custody.
Working in partnership with lawyer and journalist Andrew Free, members of the project used ICE records to create a resource that offers researchers, journalists, advocates, policymakers, and the public detailed insights on the nearly 300 people who have died in ICE custody since the agency’s creation in 2003.
Joshua Wooten ’27 and Ilu Tefera ’27 are the 2025-26 co-chairs of the Black Law Students Association (BLSA), one of UCLA School of Law’s oldest and most active student organizations.
In a new and wide-ranging set of rankings that track the scholarly impact of law schools and legal academics, UCLA School of Law placed among the top 10 institutions in the country, while 36 members of the faculty were listed as the top scholars in 25 different areas of research.
Join us for a conversation about an exciting environmental success story that too few Americans know in detail.
In “Smog and Sunshine,” UCLA Law professor and LA native Ann Carlson recounts the dramatic policy fights and the determined scientists, lawyers, and community members who worked alongside public officials to face off against major polluters and save their city. Like the book, this event will highlight the work of advocates, academics, regulators, and everyday people who refused to turn a blind eye to the toll dirty air was taking in Los Angeles and across Southern California. The conversation will also touch on lessons learned and how to channel them for the broader fight for clean air and to fight climate change.
In a time of unprecedented climate change and skepticism about government and science, Carlson’s book is an inspiring reminder of what concerned residents and all levels of government can achieve by working together.
Carlson is the Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and Faculty Director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment.
“Smog and Sunshine: the Surprising Story of How Los Angeles Cleaned Up Its Air,” to be released on April 7, during LA Climate week. Pre-order available here.
Books will be availible for purchase before and during the event.
Thanks to our co-sponsors: the UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability; the Laboratory for Environmental Narrative Strategies (LENS); and the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law & Policy.
In this groundbreaking work, Thompson, a Pulitzer Prize winning author, shines surprising new light on an infamous 1984 New York subway shooting that would unveil simmering racial resentments and lead, in unexpected ways, to a fractured future and a new era of rage and violence.
You can RSVP at bit.ly/fearandfury. Lunch will be provided.
*Heather Ann Thompson is a historian and the Pulitzer Prize and Bancroft Prize-winning author of Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. Thompson is also the author of Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. She writes regularly on the criminal justice system for myriad publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Atlantic, and The New Yorker. Thompson’s policy work includes serving on a National Academy of Sciences blue-ribbon panel that studied the causes and consequences of mass incarceration in the US. She also co-runs the Carceral State Research Project at the University of Michigan.