The American Law Institute, an "independent organization in the United States producing scholarly work to clarify, modernize, and improve the law," has elected Máximo Langer, Faculty Director of the Criminal Justice Program as one of its new members.

On December 18 and 19, 2018, Máximo Langer hosted a workshop at the University of Buenos Aires Law School on "New Trends in Criminal Procedure" as way to advance two of the goals of the UCLA Transnational of Program of Criminal Justice: 1) creating new bridges and channels of communication and mutual learning between American legal academia and legal system and the legal academia and legal system of other countri

Students from UCLA School of Law have made an impact on one of the signature criminal justice issues of our time: reform of the money bail system.

Leading criminal justice scholars, practitioners and activists from across Southern California and the nation convened at UCLA School of Law on Feb. 22 for the first major event hosted by the school’s year-old Criminal Justice Program.

The day-long symposium, “Reimagining the Criminal Justice System,” was co-sponsored by UCLA Law’s Criminal Justice Law Review, with support from the Ann C. Rosenfeld Symposium fund.

The criminal justice system’s impact on Latina and Latino people in Southern California and across the nation was the focus of the annual UCLA Law Review symposium at UCLA School of Law on Feb. 8.

UCLA School of Law alumnus Travis Bell ’17 has received the first Ambassador Award ever presented by Gideon’s Promise. The award goes to a person who supports the Gideon’s Promise mission to raise the standard of indigent defense by building a movement of public defenders.

Professor Beth Colgan became the 42nd winner of UCLA School of Law’s highest faculty honor, the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, at a ceremony on April 22.

The award, founded in 1979 by famed legal publisher William Rutter, is presented annually to leading legal educators at five top California law schools.