“Remember that, as an attorney, you have incredible potential to make meaningful change in the lives of those around you,” says Diego Cartagena ’03, a proud double Bruin and the president and CEO of Bet Tzedek Legal Services.
UCLA School of Law is pleased to welcome back K-Sue Park, who will join the law school’s faculty in January as a professor of law. The move is a homecoming for Park, who served as a critical race studies fellow and lecturer at UCLA Law from 2017 to 2019.
Park comes to UCLA Law most recently from Georgetown University Law Center, where she has been an associate professor of law since 2019.
We are pleased to join the Documentary Film Legal Clinic for a special screening and celebration: they will present Ricochet (https://www.ricochetfilm.com/), a multiple award-winning documentary about a tragic death in San Francisco that set off a political furor and the public defenders who fought to defend an innocent, undocumented immigrant. The event will also serve as an opportunity to honor Dan Mayeda, who will be retiring from his position with the DFLC at the end of 2023. We have invited former DFLC clients (independent filmmakers), DFLC alums and UCLAW faculty and staff. If you are a current student interested in our DFLC program, do not miss this event!
DATE: Tues. October 17, 2023
RECEPTION LOCATION: Coral Tree Walk (Macgowan Hall) - 245 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90024 (UCLA School of Theater, Film, & Television)
FILM SCREENING LOCATION: James Bridges Theater - 235 Charles E Young Dr E, Los Angeles, CA 90095 (UCLA School of Theater, Film, & Television)
RSVP: https://forms.gle/zPTLicUzvxZPab9e9
SCHEDULE:
Check-In & Reception ........................ 5:30p
Film Screening .................................... 7:00p
Dan Mayeda Retirement Program.... 8:30p
Questions? Contact: sundra@law.ucla.edu
Gerald P. López published Rebellious Lawyering: One Chicano's Vision of Progressive Law Practice in 1992. The book brought to life how he and others had been practicing for decades. Through “fictional characters and settings as real as can be," Rebellious Lawyering illuminated how people do what they do when collaborating with others as equals. To fight subordination of every sort. To transform institutions, systems, nations, and transnational life. To personify – and not just prefigure – the concrete utopias they seek. Militantly challenging subordination in all forms and transforming life as we know it are at the center of the rebellious vision, and UCLA Law's Critical Race Studies program is honored to devote this symposium to looking at rebellious practice past, present, and future.
Register here by Thursday, September 28th!
For program & other information, go to law.ucla.edu/crssymposium
Five outstanding professors are boosting the excellence and breadth of UCLA School of Law’s faculty as they join the law school this fall and in the coming year. Alexander Arnold, Shirin Bakhshay, Ariela Gross, K-Sue Park and Laura Pedraza-Fariña bring expertise in areas including law and economic theory, criminal adjudication and punishment, international organizations, property and legal history, race and civil rights.
UCLA School of Law is pleased to welcome Ariela Gross, who joins the law school’s faculty as a distinguished professor of law.
A renowned scholar of legal history, Gross comes to UCLA Law from USC Gould School of Law, where she was the John B. and Alice R. Sharp Professor of Law and History and founder and co-director of the Center for Law, History, and Culture. Gross served on the University of Southern California faculty for 27 years.
As the Supreme Court’s most recent term has now ended, observers are left to consider the many historic decisions that will have a lasting impact for years to come.
In a June 30 webinar titled “From the Frontlines: The Supreme Court Rulings on Affirmative Action, LGBTQ Rights, and Student Debt,” public writings and even social media videos, UCLA School of Law experts have stepped in to break down some of the most pivotal decisions.
Here is what they had to say.
Affirmative action