Alumni and friends raised $181.2 million for UCLA School of Law during the Centennial Campaign for UCLA, far exceeding the school's goal during the campus-wide fundraising drive that was designed to prepare the university for its second century of excellence.
Marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of UCLA, the Centennial Campaign raised $5.49 billion.
UCLA School of Law’s Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy is celebrating several recent big wins by students on its transactional law competition teams.
The victory followed successes at the Feb. 14 Pircher, Nichols & Meeks Joint Venture Challenge, where teams including students from UCLA Law and UCLA Anderson School of Management competed against teams from USC Gould School of Law and USC Marshall School of Business. Law students David Gallop ’22 and Dana Ontiveros ’21 were on the winning team, while Timothy Roofian ’22 and Mary Ramzy ’22 were part of the squad that finished third. The Lowell Milken Institute and the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate co-sponsor the annual competition with the law firm of Pircher, Nichols & Meeks.
Student-run startup companies in technology, dental hygiene and women’s clothing won the top awards in UCLA School of Law’s $100,000 Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler Prize for New Entrepreneurs competition, which concluded its fifth-annual event on April 20.
Two UCLA School of Law students have founded an organization to boost the success of future students who participate in elite international law competitions.
Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy
The Lowell Milken Institute creates outstanding leaders in law and business by offering classes and activities focused on entrepreneurship, negotiation, executive communications and transactional law.
For more information on our programs, visit the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy website.
UCLA Law was one of the first schools in the nation to offer students a systematic focus on business law, and it has expanded its focus on the law of taxation, rising to rank among the premier academic centers in these pivotal areas of policy and practice.