UCLA Law celebrated the Class of 2020 at an appropriate physical distance, with a livestreamed event featuring former Attorney General Eric Holder, Professor of the Year LaToya Baldwin Clark, student speakers and cameos by faculty, alumni and Jay Leno.

Join us at noon on May 29 for a virtual fireside chat about the courts and COVID-19 with Los Angeles County Superior Court Presiding Judge Kevin Brazile ’83, moderated by L.A. Superior Court Judge Nicole Bershon ’92. Register here and submit your questions here.

Michelle DeCasas ’03 and Joscelyn Jones ’81 have been appointed to the L.A. County Superior Court bench; Dawn Cica ’87 was named to the American Bankruptcy Institute board of directors; Sonya Goodwin ’11 was elevated to partner at Sauer & Wagner; and Jun Oh ’00 is the new president of global business and legal affairs for Skydance Media. Find more UCLA Law Class Notes and submit your own.

Promise Institute for Human Rights faculty director E. Tendayi Achiume has won UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching.

Students and faculty members play a key role in pressing county correctional leaders to protect people in jail from pandemic health risks.

Vice Dean of Experiential Education Sameer Ashar is the first winner of the Ellmann Memorial Clinical Scholarship Award from the Association of American Law Schools.

The UCLA Law Criminal Justice Program has launched a fellowship and program to improve outcomes for youth in the Los Angeles County juvenile justice system.

Graduating 3Ls created a program that will prepare future students to compete in the annual Vis International Commercial Arbitration Moot in Vienna, Austria.

In a year-end tribute, students toasted leading student groups and individuals, with top honors for 2019-20 going to the Asian/Pacific Islander Law Students Association.

Dean Jennifer Mnookin guested on LawNext and the American Law Institute’s Coping with COVID podcast about legal education in lockdown; Alex Wang wrote in The Washington Post about international allegations regarding the origins of COVID-19;  Adam Winkler talked to the Los Angeles Times about the first-ever live broadcast of Supreme Court arguments; Steve Bank talked to The Washington Post about the equal-pay claims of the U.S. women’s soccer team and participated in an Aspen Institute webinar about the post-lockdown return to youth sports; Aaron Littman discussed tracking COVID-19 in prisons with The Intercept, Law360 and The Sacramento Bee, and Sharon Dolovich spoke to CBS News and Univision on prisoner and detainee rights during the crisis; Kimberlé Crenshaw wrote in The New Republic on “When Blackness Is a Preexisting Condition”; Justin Bernstein talked to Oregon Public Broadcasting about trial courts in the time of COVID-19; and James Park addressed Elon Musk’s tweets and SEC enforcement in the L.A. Times. Plus, Jill Horwitz in The Seattle Times; Brad Sears in Reuters; Laura Gómez on NBC; Victor Narro in the L.A. Times and much more.