More than 150 leaders in human rights, critical race theory and third world approaches to international law convened at UCLA School of Law on March 8 for the symposium “Critical Perspectives on Race and Human Rights: Transnational Re-Imaginings.”

Celebrated British poet Karen McCarthy Woolf, recently named a Fulbright All Disciplines Scholar, is settling in for a residency at UCLA, bringing her poet’s eye to the work of students and faculty at UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights. Through a collaboration with UCLA’s English department, McCarthy Woolf will spend the year as poet-in-residence with the Promise Institute.

UCLA School of Law Professor Scott Cummings has been awarded the 2020-21 Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, the preeminent center of research on the European Union.

Kal Raustiala was recently named the Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law, joining Kimberlé Crenshaw — the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights — as an inaugural holder of an endowed chair affiliated with UCLA School of Law's Promise Institute for Human Rights. Raustiala, also the director of the UCLA Ronald

Two UCLA School of Law students have founded an organization to boost the success of future students who participate in elite international law competitions.

UCLA School of Law Professor E. Tendayi Achiume has earned UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for excellence in the classroom. Achiume was also named the recipient of the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching for 2019-20.