The latest from UCLA Law. Join the conversation as leading UCLA Law faculty address race, policing and justice. On July 7, the Critical Race Studies Program hosts a webinar on Racism, Resistance and Policing with E. Tendayi Achiume, Devon Carbado and Cheryl I. Harris, moderated by Laura Gómez. On July 10, Achiume, Carbado and Joanna Schwartz lead a webinar, part of the school's Summer Series, on creating change and greater accountability in policing. Acclaimed Critical Race Studies scholar and Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw hosts a weekly podcast focused on race, equity and justice, featuring leading scholars and experts from around the country. Beth Mueller ’11, a former partner at Kirkland & Ellis, has been named counsel to the new House Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Crisis. Marie Mendoza ’98, is now senior vice president and general counsel of Kratos Defense & Security Solutions. IP litigator John Ulin ’92 joins TroyGould. Buchalter partner Cheryl Lott ’04, already a member of the board for UCLA School of Law and UCLA Law Women LEAD, will serve as alumni-regents delegate on the UCLA Foundation board. Learn more about UCLA Law alumni and submit your own Class Notes. Kathleen Foley ’18 wins a prestigious U.S. Supreme Court Fellowship to work at the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts. Two Class of 2020 graduates will join the Children’s Law Center of California, thanks to a grant from the UCLA Pritzker Center for Strengthening Children and Families. In a major success for UCLA’s innovative Immigrant Family Legal Clinic, four members of an indigenous family from Mexico are on the path to a green card. Herbert Morris, an influential professor and scholar of law and philosophy, has received the University of California's 2019-20 Constantine Panunzio Distinguished Emeriti Award. The longtime fundraiser and expert in nonprofits takes the helm for UCLA Law’s alumni relations and development teams. Angela Riley publishes an op-ed in The New York Times about race and corporate branding; E. Tendayi Achiume writes in Just Security and is quoted in The New York Times and in The Washington Post on police accountability; Jennifer Chacón talks to KPCC about the DACA ruling; Dean Jennifer Mnookin speaks with The Recorder about bar exams and the profession amid COVID-19; Kimberlé Crenshaw discusses protests, race and transformation in Forbes and on KCRW; Gary Blasi addresses homelessness in the Los Angeles Times; LaToya Baldwin Clark talks about curfews in The Guardian; Kate Mackintosh addresses the International Criminal Court on Ian Masters’ Background Briefing; and Adam Winkler talks to NBC News and WAMU about the Supreme Court. Plus Karin Wang in Reuters; Eugene Volokh in The Christian Science Monitor; Cara Horowitz in Popular Science; and more. Keep up with everything happening at UCLA Law! |