Bolstering UCLA School of Law’s efforts to improve the lives of Native people throughout California and the country, the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has awarded a $2.2 million grant to further support the ongoing work of the law school’s Tribal Legal Development Clinic.

The Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at UCLA School of Law has launched the Emmett Clean Energy Law and Leadership Project (E-CELL), a hub that will be based at the law school and contribute to the clean energy transition while enhancing the institute’s longstanding focus on energy law.

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An amicus brief that UCLA School of Law’s Sunita Patel and Jeanne Nishimoto prepared and submitted to the Supreme Court was quoted by Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her opinion in City of Grants Pass v. Johnson, a pivotal homelessness decision that the Court delivered in June.

Opponents of the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent “Good Neighbor” Plan claim that these important standards for so-called wandering ozone could destabilize the electric power system by, for instance, retiring coal-fired plants too soon. The rule does no such thing, according to some of the nation’s leading engineers and analysts with expertise in the operation, structure, economics, regulation, and reliability of the U.S. power system.