The Class of 2021 and the LL.M. Class of 2019 are in the building and hard at work. The diverse group of 311 J.D. students has a great track record of accomplishment, a median LSAT of 168—one point higher than last year—and a median GPA of 3.72. Applications to UCLA Law jumped by 14 percent over 2017. Our 200 new LL.M.s hail from 35 countries and bring a valuable global perspective to our community. We are thrilled that Adam Winkler's We the Corporations, an acclaimed history of corporate civil rights in the U.S., is honored as one of 10 non-fiction titles listed for a 2018 National Book Award. Join us Sept. 28 as Linda Greenhouse, former U.S. Supreme Court reporter for the New York Times, joins top UCLA Law scholars for our annual look at the High Court docket. The Class of 2018 broke records in giving back to the school and became the first UCLA Law class to create a scholarship to benefit future law students. Meet the inaugural Class of 2018 scholars! Grads from years ending in 3 and 8, please visit UCLA Law for Reunion 2018. See old friends, make new ones, and enjoy a fabulous gala under the stars at your law school alma mater! Networking events, world-class lectures and symposia, and meaningful opportunities to connect with alums and today's students. Please check out what's Coming Up at UCLA Law! Are you down with RBG? UCLA Law recently hosted a special showing of the acclaimed documentary about Justice Ginsburg and held a panel discussion about the state of women in the law. Leaders of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment offer their policy views in the L.A. Times, S.F. Chronicle and Mother Jones, and are cited in the Washington Post. Also, Senior Fellow Robin Steinberg writes in USA Today and the N.Y. Times about reforming the money bail system; the New Yorker cites Hiroshi Motomura on immigration law; Adam Winkler discusses the Fourteenth Amendment in The Atlantic; Eugene Volokh talks to the Boston Globe about federal probes of media bias; Sharon Dolovich addresses prison law in the Houston Chronicle; and much more. Keep up with everything happening at UCLA Law! |