UCLA School of Law professor E. Tendayi Achiume has received a faculty chair appointment that recognizes her global leadership in scholarship and advocacy for human rights and the dignity of migrants and refugees around the world. She is now the inaugural holder of the Alicia Miñana Chair in Law, which was designed to support a faculty member preferably with interests at the intersection of human rights and immigration or migration law.

UCLA Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw has been honored with the 2021 AALS Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession by the Association of American Law Schools.

As critical race theory has come under misguided attack in recent weeks, UCLA School of Law professors, including many of the foremost experts in the field, have been in high demand. Our faculty members have driven the conversation in the media and elsewhere, setting the record straight on what CRT is – and isn’t – and reframing the conversation around the established principles that they have applied for decades.

Cary Franklin has joined UCLA School of Law as the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law and Faculty Director of the Williams Institute. She will be teaching two courses this fall, Reproductive Rights and Justice and Law, Gender, and Sexuality.