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Message from the Dean
Dear UCLA Law Alumni and Supporters,
I dearly hope that you and your loved ones are safe, sound and healthy in these extraordinary and troubling times. I write to share with you how the coronavirus pandemic and related disruptions are affecting the law school community, the resilience our community is showing (see the items below) and how we are responding to the challenges. Read More...
UCLA Law has published a sweeping collection of legal authorities governing aspects of the coronavirus pandemic, thanks to the quick work of law librarian Lynn McClelland.
The guide offers students, lawyers, academics and the public
a detailed list of local, state and federal statutes, rules or executive orders
that address government powers and oversight of the pandemic.
Professor Sharon Dolovich and members of the Prison Law and Policy Program have created expansive resources to keep track of developments related to
COVID-19 in prisons and jails nationwide. Advocates, journalists
and others in the public can access or contribute data on how the pandemic is
impacting release policies, incarcerated people and correctional personnel.
Amid in-person school closures and global travel restrictions, A. Barry Cappello Program in Trial Advocacy Director Justin Bernstein has, with help from members of UCLA Law’s trial team, created online trial competitions for the nearly 10,000 law students
and undergraduates whose competitions have been cancelled.
Jocelyn Samuels, executive director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy, was nominated on March 16 to a seat on
the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the federal agency
that enforces federal laws barring workplace discrimination.
The EEOC is currently chaired by alumna Janet Dhillon ’91.
For the second straight year, students in the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy took first place at the prestigious Interscholastic Transactional Law
Competition at Duke University School of Law. The victory followed successes
at the Pircher, Nichols & Meeks Joint Venture Challenge, where teams
including UCLA Law students finished first and third.
For the United Nations Human Rights Council, E. Tendayi Achiume cautions
against expressions of xenophobia related to COVID-19; Brad Sears writes in Ms. about lessons that the AIDS epidemic can teach us now; Kimberlé Crenshaw talks to Time about intersectionality today; Ann Carlson discusses California’s clean-air battle
with the Trump administration in The Nation; Eugene Volokh talks
to the Associated Press and Christianity Today about religious groups and coronavirus bans, and he discusses free speech and California’s license plate restrictions with the AP and the Los Angeles Times; Julia Stein appears on The Takeaway about the environmental impact of plastic bag bans; and much more.
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