As UCLA School of Law marks its 70th birthday, UCLA Law magazine spotlights 70 groundbreaking alumni. Plus, class notes, the year in numbers, record-breaking fundraising and a word from our first-generation students. UCLA Law's A. Barry Cappello Trial Team is ranked the best team among those at Top 20 law schools and third-best in the nation, and just earned the silver medal in the top tournament in the country. With major donations in 2019, UCLA Law's entertainment law program adds a full-tuition scholarship, other endowed scholarships and courses, and is renamed the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law. Join us at the law school for spectacular upcoming events including the hot-topic panels Impeaching the President: The Ins and Outs of Ukraine, Obstruction of Justice, Emoluments and More on Nov. 5 and Legal Ethics in the Age of Trump on Nov. 8. Distinguished Professor Kimberlé Crenshaw reflects on her trailblazing 1989 scholarship and the role that UCLA Law played in bringing it to life. Celebrated British poet and Fulbright Scholar Karen McCarthy Woolf joins UCLA as the poet-in-residence at the Promise Institute for Human Rights. Kal Raustiala featured in a PBS NewsHour report on big data in fashion and entertainment commerce, Kimberlé Crenshaw writes in The New York Times about #SayHerName and black women victims of police violence, Ann Carlson on big oil heading into court in The New York Times and CBC, Laura Gómez in the Los Angeles Times on a new generation of Latino leaders, Adam Winkler talks about how he wrote his award-winning book We the Corporations on the PBS NewsHour. Plus Eugene Volokh in the New York Daily News, Jennifer Mnookin on KCET, Noah Zatz in The Guardian, Richard Sander in The Christian Science Monitor, Scott Cummings in the Los Angeles Times, Joanna Schwartz in The Baltimore Sun and much more. Keep up with everything happening at UCLA Law! |