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UCLA Law Establishes Student Wellness Fund

With gifts from generous alumni, faculty members and others, UCLA Law has established a fund to provide emergency grants, employment assistance, support for educational technology and more for students. Thank you for your support!

Mnookin Elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which for 240 years has honored scholars, artists and scientists of great achievement.

Onward, Online: 2020 LMI-Sandler Prize Awards $100,000 for Student Innovation

The fifth-annual LMI-Sandler Prize went online in 2020 to award $100,000 to student-led start-ups working in digital imaging, dental hygiene and women’s clothing.

Alumni Notes

Robert Holo ’91 has returned to Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. Arwen Johnson ’06, Kelly Perigoe ’09 and Michael Roth ’01 jumped to King & Spalding. Michelle Cuozzo ’18, joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton. Cassandra Hill, a former UCLA Law Legal Research and Writing instructor, has been named dean of the Northern Illinois University College of Law. See more Class Notes and add your own!

Bruins Hiring Bruins

Generations of UCLA Law alumni have boosted recent graduates and students with mentorship and employment opportunities. Contact our Office of Career Services to learn how you can play a vital role for Bruin lawyers entering the job market.

Cummings Wins Fulbright Award

Professor Scott Cummings was awarded a 2020-21 Fulbright-Schuman Chair at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He will focus his research on litigation before European Union courts designed to advance social equality and political inclusion.

UCLA Law Students Lead Drive to Help Unemployed Workers Collect Benefits

A nationwide volunteer effort that started with UCLA Law students has helped restaurant and hospitality workers apply for unemployment insurance after the pandemic cost them their jobs. More than 60 students have helped obtain over $1.4 million in benefits.

ABA Diversity Award Goes to Law Fellows Program

UCLA Law’s Law Fellows Program won the 2020 Diversity Leadership Award from the ABA litigation section, with some help from students and alums. Law Fellows for Life!

Criminal Defense Clinic Secures Release of Inmate Threatened by COVID-19

UCLA Law's Criminal Defense Clinic helped win the release of a vulnerable detainee at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in San Bernardino, arguing that conditions there are unconstitutional because the facility can't protect individuals from COVID-19 infection.

UCLA Law in the News

Jennifer Chacón co-authors an op-ed in The New York Times about limitations on President Trump’s immigration powers, and Hiroshi Motomura discusses the issue with the Los Angeles Times; Jennifer Mnookin argues in The National Law Journal for provisional bar licenses during the pandemic; Diana Winters on the high cost of eggs in the Los Angeles Times; Katherine Stone on the rise of neo-feudalism in The American Prospect; BuzzFeed News notes Ingrid Eagly’s study on the flaws of immigration hearings conducted by video; Sharon Dolovich in the Houston Chronicle and Alicia Virani in The Appeal on incarceration amid the COVID-19 crisis; Ann Carlson speaks to NPR, Sean Hecht talks to Roll Call and Julia Stein is quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle on rollbacks of fuel emissions standards; and much more.

 
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