Three teams of Promise Institute students competed in top moot court events in the spring of 2019, taking on challenging simulations alongside human rights law students from around the world.

Several 2019 graduates of the Promise Institute have earned prestigious fellowships at leading human rights organizations.

Kristi Ueda '19 was named UCLA Law's Promise Institute Human Rights Watch Fellow, and will receive a full year's salary to join the prestigious advocacy organization.

UCLA School of Law professor Richard Steinberg has been appointed to a position on the Trade and Environmental Policy Advisory Committee (TEPAC), a group that counsels and makes recommendations to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.

U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer made the appointment official on April 1. Steinberg will serve as a Democrat on the bipartisan committee for a two-year term.

Dear friends and colleagues,

We hope this message finds you all well and staying safe in these truly extraordinary times.

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.

The killings of Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd and many others before them are manifestations of deeply entrenched structures of racism within the United States.

It is these structures that account for the disproportionate impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the very same communities that are subject to racial violence.