As immigration takes center stage as a legal and human rights concern in the United States and around the world, UCLA Law is launching the Center for Immigration Law and Policy.Tapping the school’s leading faculty and clinical programs in immigration law, the center will produce top scholarship and work with immigrant communities, advocacy groups and political leaders to help shape policy. Support for the center comes from a visionary commitment of $5 million from Alicia Miñana ’87 and Rob Lovelace.

Alumni in the news: Stephan Pastis ’93, known for creating the popular comic strip Pearls Before Swine, co-wrote the screenplay for the new Disney+ film Timmy Failure. Tricia Zunker ’06, justice of the Ho-Chunk Nation Supreme Court, won the Democratic primary for a Congressional seat in Wisconsin. Gregory Klein ’96 joined Simpson Thatcher as a partner. Ingrid Myers ’97 joined King & Spalding as a partner. Nancy Platt ’89 was promoted to Deputy Assistant General Counsel at the National Labor
Relations Board. Read more Class Notes and submit yours here.

Exciting spring events: Alumni, please join us for any or all of the three great symposia below, each offering captivating speakers, cutting-edge insights and MCLE credit. View our alumni event calendar for more great events.

Join us on Feb. 28 as Amnesty International leader Kumi Naidoo and Honduran
activist Bertha Zúñiga Cáceres headline a one-of-a-kind symposium
examining the converging crises in human rights and climate change.
The event is 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.

Join the celebration on March 12 and 13 as UCLA Law’s pioneering Critical Race Studies program toasts 20 years at its annual symposium. The event highlights the groundbreaking work of professor emeritus Gerald P. López.

WarnerMedia Entertainment Chairman Robert Greenblatt will deliver the keynote talk at the 44th annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium. Join us on March 20 and 21 as the top legal and business minds in the entertainment industry lead panels and discussions. 

UCLA Law students Christopher Chiang ’20 and Graham Fenton ’20
finished first and second, respectively, in the Recording Academy’s
Entertainment Law Initiative Writing Competition. This is the second consecutive
year in which a student affiliated with UCLA Law’s Ziffren Institute for
Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law has won the contest.

Dean Jennifer Mnookin talks to CNBC about law, technology and the school’s new Master of Legal Studies program; Sean Hecht is interviewed by the Los Angeles Times and Ann Carlson talks to the San Francisco Chronicle about municipal suits against Big Oil; Hiroshi Motomura discusses the new additions to President Trump’s travel ban with Wisconsin Public Radio; Ken Ziffren ’65 writes in The Hollywood Reporter on how streaming content is driving new deals between onscreen talent and movie studios; Michael Roberts talks to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat about a creamery’s lawsuit over California food labeling laws; and much more.