Message About Fall 2020 Remote Learning

In a July 24 message to the UCLA Law community, Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin announced that fall-semester courses, with very limited exceptions possible for a small number of live-client experiential classes, will be entirely remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Entertainment Symposium Streams Online

The 44th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium has gone virtual, in a series of weekly webinars. To stream panels on racial equity in sports and entertainment, developments in labor relations, and more — plus the Aug. 12 keynote presentation with WarnerMedia’s Robert Greenblatt — sign up from the symposium page (MCLE available).

From the Front Line:
LGBTQ Rights After Bostock

Join in as UCLA Law's summer webinar series continues on July 31. Hosted by the Williams Institute, a distinguished panel will take a deep look at the state of LGBTQ rights and implications for employment protections and anti-discrimination laws after the Supreme Court's landmark June 15 ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County. Sign up here.

Meet Our Outstanding New Professors

Six leading scholars join UCLA Law’s faculty in 2020-21: Mario Biagioli, an expert in law, science and technology; Kimberly Clausing, a prominent voice in international trade and public finance; Meirav Furth-Matzkin, who explores the meeting of contract law, consumer protection and regulation; Jonathan Glater, who examines how the law both enables and acts as a barrier to access to higher education; Fernán Restrepo, who trains his empirically based research on corporate law in the context of financial and non-financial companies; and Andrew Verstein, an authority in contract law, corporate law, and securities regulation and litigation. Welcome, all!

Alumni on the Move

Greg Good ’07 is elected president of the Los Angeles Board of Public Works shortly after Mayor Eric Garcetti appointed him to the board and the city council confirmed him. Willie Hernandez ’96 joins Facebook as director and associate general counsel of product, leading the legal team of the Facebook app. Bill Kirshenbaum ’84 joins Barnes & Thornburg’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the corporate department. Enrique Barros LL.M. ’15 is elected partner of the Chilean law firm Barros & Errázuriz. Ed Lew ’98 is elected to the UCLA Alumni Association’s board of directors and will serve as secretary. Learn more about UCLA Law alumni and submit your own Class Notes.

COVID-19 Behind Bars:
Prison Project Study Uncovers Risks

People incarcerated in U.S. prisons tested positive for COVID-19 at a rate 5.5 times higher than the general public, according to a paper that Professor Sharon Dolovich and the UCLA COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project published with Johns Hopkins researchers in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Achiume Issues UN Report on
Racial Inequality and Technology

Professor E. Tendayi Achiume has presented a report to the United Nations’ Human Rights Council on emerging digital technologies. “Technology is not neutral or objective,” she said. “It is fundamentally shaped by the racial, ethnic, gender and other inequalities prevalent in society, and typically makes these inequalities worse.”

Verstein Elected to American Law Institute

Professor Andrew Verstein has been elected to the American Law Institute, which drafts restatements of the law and other resources for legal scholars, judges and practitioners. The ALI’s distinguished membership now includes 18 people on the UCLA Law faculty.

Reunion 2020: Save the Date!

Oct. 3 is right around the corner! If your UCLA Law class year ends in a “0” or “5,” please register today to take part in the 2020 Alumni Reunion, which will be celebrated online.

Jennifer Mnookin talks to the Los Angeles Times and The Recorder about the California Supreme Court’s decision to lower the passing score on the bar exam; NBC interviews Kimberlé Crenshaw on how to “build a movement where everyone is seen”; Steve Bank appears on the Over the Ball podcast to discuss developments in soccer law; Joanna Schwartz speaks with CBS on police qualified immunity; Sean Hecht talks to CalMatters on Trump’s smog decision; Ingrid Eagly writes about migrant detention amid COVID-19 for Oxford University’s Border Criminologies; Adam Winkler on Newsy about the Supreme Court as a 2020 election issue; Laura E. Gómez on the 2020Talks podcast about undocumented immigrants and the census; Bloomberg Law cites Lynn LoPucki on law firm fees for big bankruptcies; and Hiroshi Motomura on “what’s next for DACA” on The World and Everything In It podcast. Plus: Eugene Volokh in Mother Jones, Ethan Elkind in CalMatters, Sharon Dolovich in The Appeal, Noah Zatz in Law and Political Economy, and much more.