Students in UCLA Law’s Documentary Film Legal Clinic were a hit at the Sundance Film Festival, earning a shout-out at the debut of a film supported by the clinic and getting a close-up of the furious deal-making at the famed fest.

UCLA Law and the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering have launched a new Institute on Law, Technology and Public Policy. Funded by $10 million in gifts, the institute held its first symposium on the impact of the rise of algorithms on criminal justice,
regulatory enforcement and bias. View conference panels here.

Jessie Kornberg ’07, the UCLA Law commencement speaker in 2019, takes the helm at the Skirball Cultural Center; Diego Cartagena ’03 replaces Kornberg as  the leader at Bet Tzedek; Erik Stegman ’08 will head Native Americans in Philanthropy; Dan Kupetz ’92 leaves CBS TV Studios for 20th Century Fox Television; Linda Klein ’09 is named a partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson; and Daphne Bishop ’01 joins the partnership at Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger. Read more Class Notes, and submit yours, here.

Join us February 28 for a one-of-a-kind symposium as Kumi Naidoo, former leader of Greenpeace and now secretary general of Amnesty International, and Honduran activist Bertha Zuñiga Cáceres offer keynote addresses in an event examining the converging crises in human rights and climate change. MCLE credit available. Sponsored by the Promise Institute for Human Rights, the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. 

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Alex Wang comments in Bloomberg on China’s effort to silence anti-pollution activists; KCRW talks to Tim Malloy about Malibu’s proposed pesticide ban; Billboard highlights UCLA Law’s Music Industry Clinic; Jocelyn Samuels talks to Bloomberg about the federal suit seeking to force California to change health coverage laws; Ann Carlson and Cara Horowitz speak to Time, the Associated Press and Mashable about dismissal of the Juliana climate change lawsuit; David Marcus speaks to the Los Angeles Times on oil industry subpoenas to consumer advocates; The Guardian interviews Adam Winkler about Virginia’s gun control debate; NPR affiliate KJZZ interviews Alex Alben about California’s new privacy law; The Fresno Bee quotes Taimie Bryant on humane policies at California animal shelters; Eugene Volokh talks to Fox 11 Los Angeles about reputation defense companies using fraudulent suits to chill consumer critics; and much more.