KHALED ABOU EL FADL was again named one of the World’s 500 Most Influential Muslims by the Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Center in Jordan. His publications included “Islamic law, Jihad and Violence,” 16 UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law 1 (2017).

TENDAYI ACHIUME's publications include “The Fatal Flaw in International Law for Migration,” 56 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 257 (2018)  and "Migration as Decolonization," Stanford Law Review (forthcoming), selected for the 2018 Harvard-Stanford-Yale Junior Faculty Forum.

ASLI BÂLI won the 2017 Middle East Studies Association Presidential Award. Faculty director of UCLA Law's Promise Institute for Human Rights, her recent publications include “Constitutionalism and the American Imperial Imagination,” in The University of Chicago Law Review (2018). 

DEVON CARBADO was named the 2018-19 William H. Neukom Fellows Research Chair in Diversity and Law at the American Bar Foundation. Heis co-author (with Song Richardson) of “The Black Police: Policing Our Own,” 131 Harvard Law Review 1979 (2018).

JENNIFER M. CHACÓN, previously Chancellor’s Professor at UC Irvine School of Law, joined UCLA Law in Fall 2018. She co-authored the 2017 casebook Immigration Law and Social Justice and has written articles and chapters on immigration, border control and human trafficking.

KIMBERLÉ W. CRENSHAW's numerous speeches and keynotes included addresses at the Congressional Black Caucus’ Annual Legislative Conference; the National Women’s Studies Association; Dillard University; Harvard Law School; Tulane University; Yale Law School; in Colombia and Germany.

LAURA GÓMEZ is faculty director of the Critical Race Studies program at UCLA Law. In March she delivered the lecture "The Racialization of Latinos in the U.S.” at the Center for the Study of Race and Race relations at the University of Florida Levin College of Law.

CHERYL I. HARRIS received the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, UCLA Law’s highest faculty honor for distinction in the classroom, in April 2018. She spoke on race and slavery at events in Australia, New Zealand and Italy in June 2017.

HIROSHI MOTOMURA received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2017, and spent Spring 2018 working on The New Migration Law, his third book on immigration law. He also served as a consultant on amicus curiae briefs in 10 federal immigration cases, including Hawaii v. Trump. 

JYOTI NANDA, the Binder Clinical Teaching Fellow at UCLA Law, was appointed Reporter of the ABA Juvenile Justice Standards Committee to draft national standards for the field. Her upcoming publication is the “Construction and Criminalization of Disability in Schools Incarceration.”

SUNITA PATEL joined UCLA Law in 2017 and leads the Veterans Legal Clinic. In May 2018 she was a presenter on “Creative Clinical Pedagogy in an Era of Mass Incarceration” at the clinical conference of the Association of American Law Schools. 

ANGELA RILEY spoke on “The Future of Indigenous Self-Governance and Self-Determination” at the Institute of Politics Forum at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government in April 2018. She is co-author of the forthcoming article "Privatizing the Reservation?" in Stanford Law Review.

SHEROD THAXTON received the Earl B. Dickerson Distinguished Leadership Award from the University of Chicago Law School. His forthcoming publications include a study of racial disparities in death penalty charging decisions and the role that parental monitoring plays in children's delinquent behavior. 

NOAH ZATZ  began service on the California Department of Fair Employment & Housing advisory group on local enforcement of state anti-discrimination law. He also received a grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to study community service as an alternative to incarceration.