UCLA Law and its Ziffren Center are ranked tops in the nation for entertainment law for sixth straight year, thanks to outstanding alumni working in the TV, film and music industries. Join us TONIGHT for the final round of the Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler Prize for new entrepreneurs, with $100,000 on the line! Meanwhile, the 2018 prize winner is building his clean-energy firm. UCLA Law's Black Law Students Association raised more than $120,000 for a new student scholarship at the group's dazzling 50th Anniversary Gala. Bankruptcy law leaders and professors Daniel Bussel and Ken Klee played a key role in restructuring billions of dollars of debt for struggling Puerto Rico. Join us May 17 for Commencement or come to campus for some of our terrific guest lectures and alumni events. View our alumni calendar to learn more. Ralph ’58 and Shirley Shapiro, who met at UCLA and have since made the law school and campus better in countless ways, are honored with the UCLA Medal. Alumna Julie Gao ’98, a Skadden partner based in Hong Kong, has structured technology IPOs worth more than $20 billion in the last year, according to this Wall Street Journal profile. UCLA Law mourns the loss of two extraordinary members of our family: Emeriti Kenneth Karst, a leading constitutional scholar, and education and tech law expert Stuart Biegel. Kirk Stark weighs in on obtaining the president's tax returns on KPCC; Ann Carlson addresses climate change policy in The New York Times Magazine; Jon Michaels assesses the dangers of acting cabinet members in Time Magazine; Plus Tim Malloy on enforcing pesticide laws on KQED; Lara Stemple and Ilan Meyer on sexual abuse by nuns in the Huffington Post; Kal Raustiala on China and intellectual property in the South China Post; Eugene Volokh on free speech and vanity license plates in L.A. Magazine; Richard Sander in Newsweek on affirmative action; and much more. Keep up with everything happening at UCLA Law! |