Three students in UCLA Law's David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy earned prestigious Skadden Fellowships to pursue work in public interest law. Please join us on Wednesday, Dec. 4, as we honor leading alumni and friends William Anderson ’88, Cheryl Lott ’04, the Hon. Jacqueline Nguyen ’91 and Chuck Williams at the UCLA Law Awards. Eminent Reed College tax and economics scholar Kimberly Clausing, author of Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (2019, Harvard University Press) will join the UCLA Law faculty in 2021. Riveting true stories rendered on film by clients of UCLA Law’s Documentary Film Legal Clinic are reaching audiences on networks, on the big screen and in film festivals. Join us on campus on Dec. 7 as UCLA Law hosts a swearing-in ceremony Professor Noah Zatz and the UCLA Labor Center have published a groundbreaking report on L.A. County’s broken system of court-ordered community service. Seventy pathbreaking alumni across the decades and disciplines are the toast of the Hiroshi Motomura writes in The Washington Post about immigration policy; Dean Jennifer Mnookin on forensic evidence and new technology in The New York Times; Joanna Schwartz addresses qualified immunity in Vice News; Eugene Volokh weighs in on high-tech surveillance on KNBC; Noah Zatz shines a light on court-ordered community service in The Guardian; Sean Hecht talks to The Washington Post on the fight over fuel-efficiency standards; Adam Winkler is quoted in The New York Times on gunmaker liability; Jill Horwitz on Medicaid changes on NPR; Ann Carlson on the environmental impact of back-up generators during on NBC; and much more. Keep up with everything happening at UCLA Law! |