Distinguished UCLA School of Law alumni couple Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw, B.A. ’76, J.D. ’79 and William “Bill” Wardlaw, J.D. ’72, have pledged $2 million to endow a chair in constitutional law to enhance UCLA Law’s strength in this important area of legal education. The Judge Kim McLane and Bill Wardlaw Family Chair in Constitutional Law is the school’s first endowed chair in constitutional law.

The UCDC Law Program has been sending law students from across the UC system to Washington, D.C., for more than 15 years, offering them a rare opportunity to immerse themselves in the city where federal law is made.

The California coastline is known for its natural beauty, recreation opportunities, world-class developments and — increasingly — conflict. In many places up and down the state, continued development at the coast contravenes both the letter and the intent of the California Coastal Act, but local communities remain deeply divided about how to plan for the growing impacts of sea level rise.

When Sam Ennis ’10 began his legal studies at UCLA School of Law, Indian law wasn't on his radar – growing up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, there were no federally recognized tribes in his state. However, a chance encounter with a Ninth Circuit tribal court criminal jurisdiction case during a summer internship sparked a few questions, setting Ennis on an unexpected career path.

Members of UCLA School of Law’s Supreme Court Clinic earned the latest in a recent string of major successes when, in November, the justices issued an opinion in the case of Pitts v. Mississippi, siding with the clinic’s client in a matter involving the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment.

When the U.S. Supreme Court opened its term on Oct. 6, the first case on the docket was Villarreal v. Texas, an appeal that UCLA School of Law’s Supreme Court Clinic brought to the high court – and Professor Stuart Banner, who runs the clinic, was the first person to deliver oral argument before the justices.