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Message from Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin again in the top tier of institutions sending graduates into the most prestigious fellowships in public interest law. Students earned victories in multiple cases that they had briefed and argued at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. And many more did extensive pro bono work during a period where the need, in Los Angeles and beyond, has been especially acute. Our extraordinary program in experiential education also stood strong during the shift to remote education. The program is now more than half a century old and continues to grow in marvelous ways. Please take a look at our cover story to read more about that evolution, including a significant recent expansion in live-client clinics. Students have a dizzying number of opportunities to gain concrete lawyering skills while making a profound impact, representing veterans, immigrant families, documentary filmmakers, and so many others, and by working on important policy issues in areas from the environment to human rights.

AS I SIT DOWN TO WRITE THIS LETTER, THE COLORS OF FALL HAVE COME AND THE SHORTER DAYS ARE GETTING COOLER – YES, EVEN HERE IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. The students, faculty, and staff members of UCLA School of Law are now several months into our return to in-person classes. And I’m delighted — and, frankly, relieved — to say that it has generally gone very well. It has been a genuine thrill to see students in the hallways and classrooms (masked, of course) and outdoors. These days, faculty and students eat boxed lunches together in the courtyard, and some of our events still take place on Zoom. Though we haven’t completely returned to “normal,” the palpable, powerful sense of an in-person learning community is fully back, and amazingly strong, and I feel so honored and proud to be a part of all that is unfolding at UCLA Law. This past year, our faculty members continued to make a major impact. The leaders of our Critical Race Studies program showed why they are so often celebrated as trailblazers — and why critical race theory is an essential part of our educational mission. Our professors are steering national conversations on other topics, ranging from COVID-19 in prisons to qualified immunity and police accountability, from geoengineering to tax policy. They have published notable books on topics ranging from democratic theory to labor movement lawyering to negotiation, testified in high-profile hearings before the U.S. House of Representatives, and even argued before the U.S. Supreme Court. I am profoundly grateful to work alongside such dedicated and impressive colleagues. Our students have continued to shine amid the many challenges of the moment. The Cappello Trial Team completed its best year ever, sweeping the national trial advocacy championships and repeating as the country’s No. 1-ranked squad. Our law school was once

I also want to say thank you. Our greatness derives as much from our alumni and friends as from our students and faculty. We could not and would not be who we are without your generosity and engagement. I’m pleased to report that, last year, UCLA Law enjoyed its largest fundraising total ever, $39.9 million, and I’m equally proud to say that we had nearly 500 first-time donors. To everyone who contributed — thank you so very, very much! Because of your contributions, we launched our innovative Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits, grew our pro bono program, endowed new faculty chairs, and expanded the scholarship funding that helps support the talented students who join our community. So many of you also contribute by mentoring, interviewing, and hiring our students, and by staying in touch with one another. Thank you for making your connection to UCLA Law an ongoing part of your own professional stories. It’s wonderful to see our alums thriving and making a difference as lawyers and leaders. One alumna is taking over as head of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund — a position first held by Thurgood Marshall — and another is serving as a clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Others are excelling everywhere from law firms to the upper reaches of the government, and from here in Los Angeles to all across the globe. Please enjoy this issue of the UCLA Law magazine — and please continue to be safe and well. May 2022 bring you satisfaction and happiness, and please stay involved with UCLA Law.

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Intellectual Capitol

Philanthropy and Nonproﬁts

Dreams Achieved

Professors Ann Carlson and Kimberly Clausing have joined the Biden administration as leading policymakers.

A new program at the Lowell Milken Institute anticipates a revolution in the coming transfer of generational wealth.

Three Achievement Fellows share their stories of law school and plans for the future.

EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AT 51 After pioneering experiential training and learning in law schools a half century ago, UCLA Law is still innovating for our students and our community.

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76 Karst Legacy Carries On Family, colleagues, and former students have rallied to create a new scholarship honoring Kenneth Karst’s commitment to equity and access to justice.

NEW CENTER ON REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH, LAW AND POLICY ESTABLISHED

IMMIGRATION CENTER ON THE FRONT LINES

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Q&A WITH JANAI NELSON ‘96

SHARON DOLOVICH WINS UCLA DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD

FIRST GRATON SCHOLARS ARRIVE

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ORIENTATION AND CONVOCATION 2021 Back on Campus! On Aug. 12, students returned to the UCLA Law campus for the first time in almost 18 months. It was a thrill to be together, face-to-face — masked, of course — and to see everyone so excited to be here and ready to start a great new school year. Orientation activities for 1L, LL.M., and M.L.S. students were hosted by our Student Affairs Office, the Office of Graduate Studies and International Programs, and the Master of Legal Studies program. The weather was glorious as students got the chance to meet their peers, get a taste of law school classes, and discover all the programs and opportunities in store for them. As is UCLA Law tradition, the week was capped by Convocation, held this year outdoors in Dickson Court. The new students heard from Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin, Student Bar Association president Jessie Chen ’22, and distinguished alumna Rasha Gerges Shields ’01, who administered the Oath of Professionalism.

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PROFESSORS CARLSON AND CLAUSING JOIN BIDEN ADMINISTRATION

Ann Carlson

Kimberly Clausing

Soon after President Joe Biden was sworn into office in January 2021, UCLA Law professors Ann Carlson and Kimberly Clausing joined his administration and now are serving as leading policymakers in matters involving the environment and taxation. Carlson is currently serving as the chief counsel of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the federal agency that has joint authority with the Environmental Protection Agency over car and truck greenhouse gas standards. The Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law and faculty co-director of UCLA Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, Carlson is a nationally renowned environmental law scholar and teacher who has done groundbreaking work on air pollution law and policy. A frequent commentator in the national media, she co-wrote with Dan Farber and William Boyd the top casebook Environmental Law (West, 2019), co-edited with Dallas Burtraw the book Lessons from the Clean Air Act: Building Durability and Adaptability into U.S. Climate and Energy Policy (Cambridge University Press, 2019), and authored a forthcoming book on the history of air pollution in Southern California. “Ann’s appointment is a recognition of her leadership in developing solutions for climate change and her commitment to public service,” Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute, said when she was appointed. “Ann’s vision drove the creation of the Emmett Institute as the fi rst law school center to focus on climate change, and she has helped build one of the country’s leading environmental law programs. In this new position, she will play an important role in crafting automobileefficiency standards that are central to the country’s efforts to address climate change. She’s the perfect person for the job.” Clausing is serving as deputy assistant secretary at the treasury department. There, she focuses on tax analysis and policy, leads the Office of Tax Analysis, and works to further tax policy development. Her efforts under the leadership of Janet Yellen – the fi rst woman ever to serve as U.S. Secretary of the Treasury – include promoting recovery and relief during the pandemic, addressing climate change, and working to address societal inequities.

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The Eric M. Zolt Professor of Tax Law and Policy, Clausing joined the law school in January and teaches U.S. International Taxation. Her research studies the taxation of multinational fi rms, examining how government decisions and corporate behavior interplay in an increasingly global world economy. She has published numerous articles in this area, and she wrote the book Open: The Progressive Case for Free Trade, Immigration, and Global Capital (Harvard University Press, 2019). “Kim is among the nation’s leading experts in tax law and policy, and her scholarship is on the cutting edge of the field, with a keen eye on creating progressive, solution-based policies,” Steven Bank, the Paul Hastings Professor of Business Law and a leading tax law authority, said when she joined the administration. “The treasury department, like all of us at UCLA Law, is incredibly fortunate to have her on board.”

Alumni in the Administration It isn’t just UCLA Law faculty members joining the new administration as public servants. Several alumni are administration nominees and appointees, including: • Nikki Buffa ’06, who served on the transition team for the White House Council on Environmental Quality • Celeste Drake ’02, serving as the inaugural “Made in America" Director at the Office of Management and Budget • Felicia Escobar Carillo ’10, serving as the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Chief of Staff • Tom Cormons ’06, serving as a member of the new White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council • Alexander Hoehn-Saric ’95, serving as Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission • Lisa Hone ’92, serving on the National Economic Council, steering broadband expansion efforts • Ur Jaddou ’01, serving as the head of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services • Thomas Monheim ’92, serving as the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community • Katrina Mulligan ’07, serving as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict • Susan Natland ’98, serving as Vice Chair of the United States Patent and Trademark Office’s Trademark Public Advisory Committee (TPAC) • Jeffrey Prieto ’95, serving as General Counsel for the Environmental Protection Agency (One more UCLA Law connection: Ashley Tabaddor, a frequent part-time law faculty member, is serving as Chief Counsel to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.)

Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy Launches With $5 Million Grant attorneys to keep current on cutting-edge trends in the law. The center will focus on ﬁve primary goals, drawn from feedback from more than 60 local and national stakeholders:

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Training tomorrow’s leaders: Increasing the number of law students and lawyers who are trained to work on reproductive rights through litigation, policy, and advocacy.

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Educating key stakeholders and decision makers: Providing legislators, judges, non-proﬁt leaders, health care providers, and lawyers with reliable, current data and arguments to advance reproductive health and rights.

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Convening for innovation: Creating a trusted place to convene reproductive rights scholars and advocates to discuss ideas across diﬀerence and innovate new paths forward.

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Producing scholarship that matters: Publishing rigorous, interdisciplinary research that will impact current reproductive health and rights debates.

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Changing the narrative: Building a national research and storytelling collaborative to create and disseminate compelling narratives to advance reproductive justice.

Cary Franklin

As the U.S. Supreme Court heard a case from Mississippi potentially designed to overturn Roe v. Wade in December, UCLA Law launched the Center on Reproductive Health, Law and Policy to address the most pressing legal issues for reproductive rights in the nation today. The new center is funded through a $5 million state budget allocation that is part of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s broader initiative to make California a sanctuary for reproductive health and take a national lead in ensuring access. “The need for scholars, policymakers, and advocates who are focused on advancing reproductive health, law, and policy could not be more pressing,” says Brad Sears, UCLA Law’s associate dean of public interest law and interim executive director of the Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy. “States are also rushing to pass laws that further restrict access to contraception and abortion – including, most famously, SB8 in Texas. They are also creating religious and moral exemptions to anti-discrimination laws that threaten to deny women access to contraception, abortion, and other fundamental health care services,” he added. The new center, the ﬁrst interdisciplinary academic center focused on these issues on the West Coast, will address these challenges by producing research-informed strategies to transform current debates, hosting a variety of new courses in the ﬁeld, providing scholarships and summer fellowships for students who aim to be reproductive rights lawyers, and programming for practicing

UCLA Law is currently conducting a nationwide search for the center’s inaugural leadership, including an executive director and deputy director. Several faculty members are in place, including Professor Cary Franklin, a nationally celebrated authority in law and sexuality, who holds the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law and serves as the faculty director of the Williams Institute. Fellows include Sapna Khatri, the Sears Sexual and Reproductive Health Clinical Law Teaching Fellow; Sofia Pedroza ’21, working at the California Planned Parenthood Education Fund as the center’s first post-graduate fellow; and current UCLA Law student Brittany Chung ’24, who will be the center’s first public interest scholar. “This new center is a strategic investment in the protection of reproductive rights, and we are proud to be the home of this vital effort. We are immensely grateful to Gov. Newsom and the California legislature for giving this law school the funds to make the center a reality,” says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin.

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Justice Breyer Pays Virtual Visit to Supreme Court Class The two dozen students in the law school’s Supreme Court Simulation course got a thrill last February when U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer joined by Zoom to be their special guest for the day. Breyer shared how he prepares for oral argument, offered a general glimpse into the justices-only conference where they discuss and decide cases, and presented his views on what makes a good advocate. The Supreme Court Simulation was taught by Adam Winkler, the Michael J. Connell Professor of Law, and lecturer Ryan Azad ’17. In the course, students take cases that are currently pending before the high court, simulate attorneys’ oral arguments, and decide and write judicial opinions. During his visit, Breyer shared several amusing anecdotes from his quarter-century on the court and received a word of thanks from a student whose family was helped by the court’s 2020 opinion, which Breyer joined, in Department of Homeland Security v. Regents of the University of California, which struck down a Trump administration effort to rescind the DACA immigration program. “Justice Breyer offered an inspiring perspective on the inner workings of the Supreme Court. The advice and stories that he shared undoubtedly boosted our students’ understanding of the court and added to the tools that they are collecting in becoming successful advocates,” Winkler says. “We are so grateful that he agreed to participate in our class.” For the students, the chance to learn directly from a Supreme Court justice was a once-in-a-law-school-career opportunity. “Justice Breyer is a large part of the reason I came to law school. He’s always so thorough, thoughtful, and genuinely concerned with understanding all of the issues and reaching the right result. He’s also incredibly funny,” says Emme Tyler ’21, who hopes to become a judge during her legal career. “Justice Breyer is what I want to be when I grow up: someone with integrity, passion, and an undying commitment to upholding an institution that serves as the last bastion for individual and civil rights.” Breyer has served on the Supreme Court since 1994. He previously came to UCLA Law in 2010 and 2015. Most recently, Justice Elena Kagan spent a day at the law school in 2018, while Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Sandra Day O'Connor have also visited.

Brown ’17 Earns Supreme Court Clerkship UCLA Law alumna Whitney A. Brown ’17 is clerking for Justice Sonia Sotomayor on the U.S. Supreme Court during the 2021-22 term. She is the 20th UCLA Law graduate to clerk on the Supreme Court and the ﬁrst since Rachel Bloomekatz ’08 clerked for Justice Stephen Breyer during the 2011-12 term. Brown most recently worked as an attorney with Stoel Rives LLP in Anchorage, Alaska, as Whitney A. Brown an associate in the ﬁrm’s litigation group. She previously clerked for Judge Morgan Christen of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, Justice Goodwin Liu of the Supreme Court of California, and Judge Guido Calabresi of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. “At every step of this journey, I have been buoyed by the support and encouragement of my UCLA professors and classmates, my judges, and my colleagues, friends, and family,” says Brown. “I am deeply honored to have the opportunity to serve Justice Sotomayor and the Court.” During her tenure at UCLA Law, she served as the editor-in-chief of the UCLA Law Review and co-president of the Health Law Society. She was also part of a team of students and faculty members who successfully represented a client before the high court in the 2017

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case Nelson v. Colorado, as part of the law school’s Supreme Court Clinic. Before law school, Brown was a health policy adviser in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and an evaluator of charter schools in Chicago. She earned her undergraduate degree in anthropology, with honors, from the University of Chicago and her graduate degree in public health from Emory University. “In the finest tradition of UCLA-trained lawyers, Whitney combines compassion and intellect in equal measure, and she has a tremendous ability to see both the forest and the trees. She cares about the intellectual integrity of legal argument, and she cares about law’s effects on real people,” says Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “I’m thrilled she has this well-deserved opportunity and know that Whitney will continue to make her alma mater proud.” UCLA Law graduates have served as Supreme Court clerks since 1954 – just two years after the law school celebrated the graduation of its first class – when Harvey Grossman ’54 began his clerkship with Justice William O. Douglas. In the decades since, another 19 alumni have clerked for 11 different justices, including Douglas, Chief Justices Earl Warren and Warren Burger, and Justices John Paul Stevens, Thurgood Marshall, William Rehnquist (before he became chief justice), Byron White, Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, and Sotomayor.

Hillary Rodham Clinton Honored by Williams Institute On June 9, 2021, the Williams Institute held a grand party — online — to celebrate its two decades of producing research with real-world relevance and impacting the lives and well-being of LGBTQ people around the world. The virtual event showcased the institute’s legacy of ensuring that data and facts, not myths and stereotypes, are used to shape public policy and laws in the United States and elsewhere. As beﬁtted a celebration honoring a full 20 years of groundbreaking work and partnerships, the video presentation featured a host of well-wishers, special guests, and honorees from the institute’s storied history. These included U.S. Representatives Ritchie Torres (D-NY), Maxine Waters Hillary Rodham Clinton

(D-CA), award-winning music legend Diane Warren, and inaugural founders Chuck Williams and

Stu Walter, who sat down for an in-depth conversation with Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin to look back at their historic decision to found an institute devoted to the legal rights of LGBTQ people across the globe at the dawn of the 21st century. Another featured dignitary that June night was Hillary Rodham Clinton, who accepted the International Impact Award, given for her many contributions, including her then-revolutionary 2011 statement, while serving as Secretary of State, that “LGBTQ rights are human rights, and human rights are LGBTQ rights.” The award was presented by Founding Executive Director Brad Sears. In accepting the award, Clinton said of her remarks, “It really is one of the speeches that I'm proudest of from my time as Secretary of State. I also believe expressing our principles is important, but not enough.” “Of course, none of the strides we've made would be possible without excellent research and data,” she continued. “So when the Obama administration helped launch the LGBTQ global development partnership — the ﬁrst vehicle to advance LGBTQ rights through U.S. foreign policy and development assistance — the Williams Institute was a key founding partner.” “Thank you for this stunning award. I could not be more grateful for the collaboration between the U.S. government and the Williams Institute. And congratulations, once again, on all you have accomplished and all you will keep accomplishing for the years ahead,” she said.

Mnookin Hosts National, Global Leaders Several prominent leaders in government and global human rights participated in illuminating conversations with UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin in 202021, on topics ranging from criminal justice to leadership. In October 2021, UCLA Law’s Criminal Justice Program hosted Amal Clooney a conversation between Mnookin and Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón. He was elected to the top prosecution job in L.A. County in 2020 – after having served in the same role in San Francisco – in what was viewed as a major victory for the progressive movement. Occurring a year after Gascón entered office with substantial backing from leaders including Gov. Gavin Newsom, Mayor Eric Garcetti, Kamala Harris, Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Cullors, and civil rights icon Dolores Huerta, his conversation with Mnookin touched on his efforts to change practices involving pretrial detention, juvenile justice, sentencing, marijuana convictions, cash bail, and more – and on the criticisms that he has faced for doing so. In March 2021, Mnookin joined the celebrated human rights lawyer Amal Clooney in a conversation titled “Doing the Right Thing,” where they shared their perspectives on leadership, success, and making a positive difference in the world. Their discussion was part

of the “UCLA Leaders of Tomorrow” series of events, presented by the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. Geffen School faculty member Eric Esrailian, who led the effort to create the Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA Law in 2017, moderated the discussion. Mnookin and Clooney agreed that seizing opportunity and turning it into meaningful impact is a central motivation. Mnookin noted that, as dean of UCLA Law, she works to expand possibilities for lawyers and future lawyers to make a difference. Clooney said, “There’s some people who watch the news and don’t just sort of bury their heads in their hand. They think, 'What am I going to do about this?'” In September 2020, UCLA Law hosted a discussion between Mnookin and Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. As the district attorney in New York City, Vance has been at the center of major investigations involving Harvey Weinstein, the Trump Organization, terrorism, financial crimes, and more. He and Mnookin talked about the impact of the #MeToo movement and the uprising following the killing of George Floyd, as well as the philosophies that have driven his leadership of one of the nation’s most active D.A. offices since he was first elected to the job a decade ago. “The role of district attorney has changed in that I, and I think others, define ‘crime fighting’ differently than I did when I came in in 2010,” Vance said. “And by that, I mean: I think we can all agree that a crime prevented is far better than a crime prosecuted — for all the parties.”

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Schwartz Drives National Discussion of Police Accountability As issues of police accountability have taken on increased resonance amid protests following the murder of George Floyd and the conviction of Derek Chauvin, among other major developments, Professor Joanna Schwartz has continued to drive the national discussion through her Joanna Schwartz impactful work in the area. A leading scholar in the field of police accountability for more than a decade, her work has been cited widely by dozens of courts across the country, including the U.S. Supreme Court. Now, her expertise on qualified immunity — the doctrine that protects police officers and government officials from civil liability for on-the-job misconduct, which the U.S. Supreme Court upheld in two unsigned opinions in October — is gaining traction among policymakers who are looking to change our culture of policing, and it is drawing intense interest from scholars and the media. In 2021, Schwartz wrote op-eds in USA Today and The Atlantic magazine, where she proposed changes to qualified immunity. She also appeared on the PBS NewsHour and in articles by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker magazine, CNN, and

other major national outlets to discuss the nuances of the topic. She has served as an advisor to senators who are engaged in this issue and testified before several state legislative committees. In the days following Floyd’s homicide, she consulted with members of congress to help them craft reform proposals that went to the floors of the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate. She also offered testimony before the New Mexico Civil Rights Commission that lent invaluable aid to that state’s successful effort to abolish qualified immunity. This work built on her prolific scholarship in the area. Her landmark research includes studies revealing that state and local government agencies have indemnified officers for 99.98% of the $730 million paid to plaintiffs. Recently, she published the articles “New Federalism and Civil Rights Enforcement,” which she co-wrote with Alexander Reinert and James E. Pfander for the Northwestern University Law Review, and “Qualified Immunity’s Boldest Lie,” for the University of Chicago Law Review. Schwartz is working on a book titled Shielded: How the Police Became Untouchable (Viking Penguin). She is also the co-author of the leading casebook Civil Procedure. In 2015, she won UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest honor for excellence in the classroom.

GÓMEZ WINS AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION OUTSTANDING SCHOLAR AWARD UCLA Law Professor Laura E. Gómez was honored with the 2021 Outstanding Scholar Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation. She received the award – among the nation’s highest honors for scholarship in law or government – at the ABF’s annual banquet in February. Gómez holds the Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law and is a co-founder of UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies program, which last year celebrated its 20th anniversary as the first law school-based institutional program dedicated to advancing equality through the rigorous study of the intersection of race and the law. A renowned leader in pathbreaking scholarship that promotes social justice, Gómez holds joint appointments in UCLA’s departments of Sociology and Chicana/o and Central American studies. Her 2020 book Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism (The New Press) was featured on NPR’s list of the best books of the year. Her 2007 book Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race (NYU Press) was a landmark in the field. In announcing the award and recognizing Gómez’s expertise on race, law, and society, Laura E. Gómez retired Judge Eileen A. Kato, National Chair of the ABF Fellows and Patron Fellow, said, “Laura’s work exemplifies the ABF’s mission to expand knowledge and advance justice through rigorous empirical and interdisciplinary research. … We are honored to recognize her important scholarship with the Outstanding Scholar Award.” The Outstanding Scholar Award has been presented since 1957 by the ABF, which is one of the world’s most eminent independent organizations for empirical and interdisciplinary study of the law. Previous honorees include UCLA Law professors Richard Abel and Kimberlé Crenshaw and U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

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Beyond Borders: New Immigration Center Drives Progress

Ahilan Arulanantham

Gabriela Domenzain

In his 2020 law review article “The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugees, and Citizens in an Anxious Age,” UCLA Law Distinguished Professor and immigration authority Hiroshi Motomura writes, “Once every generation or so, entire fields of law require a full reset. We need to step back from the fray and rethink basic premises, ask new questions, and even recast the role of law itself. This moment has come for the law governing migration." UCLA Law’s groundbreaking new Center for Immigration Law and Policy aims to help drive that necessary and important reset. The center launched in 2020 with a transformative gift from dedicated UCLA Law alumna and board of advisors chair Alicia Miñana ’87 and her husband, Rob Lovelace. A second, anonymous gift later doubled the center’s resources. Motomura, the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law and one of the most respected and broadly cited scholars in immigration law, came on to serve as its inaugural faculty director. The center got a further boost in 2021, when renowned advocate Ahilan Arulanantham joined from the ACLU of Southern California. He now serves as faculty co-director of the center and professor from practice. Arulanantham argued the case of FBI v. Fazaga before the U.S. Supreme Court in November (see story, page 59). The center's leadership team includes communications director Gabriela Domenzain, a longtime immigration advocate, and deputy director Talia Inlender, who previously worked at Public Counsel’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. Inlender will teach the Immigrants' Rights Policy Clinic with Motomura. The center’s work — which this year included a series of summits, clinical impact in the community, and continued robust scholarship — has now kicked into a higher gear that responds to the many challenges and opportunities in one of the most dynamic and debated areas of the law today. That approach is represented by a key component of the center’s work, the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic, directed by Nina Rabin. Launched in 2019, the clinic provides legal services to students and their families at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Koreatown and is the nation’s only immigration law clinic on a K-12 public school campus. In the past year, the clinic has worked directly with hundreds of families while training dozens of law students. In January 2022, it will hold a clinic that will provide legal assistance to Afghan refugees settled in Los Angeles.

Talia Inlender

Hiroshi Motomura

The center has also organized a series of conferences to inform scholars, students, and the public on the rapidly shifting immigration law and policy landscape, and its real-life consequences. Last spring, its inaugural conference, “Immigration Policy in the Biden Administration: The First 100 Days and Beyond,” featured a number of conversations with leaders in the field, including sharp Q&A sessions with U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Sen. Alex Padilla of California (see story, page 59). To launch the center’s fall conference, “The Road Ahead on Immigration Law,” Domenzain convened Univision Anchor Jorge Ramos and three of the nation’s most important DREAMer leaders for a candid conversation on the power of organizing and the moment we find ourselves in today. Engaging with top officials in Washington is also a signature of the center. In March, Motomura testified before a U.S. House of Representatives committee on anti-Asian violence (see story, page 41). More recently, he embarked on a project with six law student research assistants, with funding from the California state budget, to analyze how immigration laws and policies have disadvantaged Asian and Pacific Islander communities in California, with a policy report due in the spring of 2022, including recommendations for state law reform. Center staff members have also worked extensively behind the scenes to support legislative efforts to provide forms of legal status to people who hold Temporary Protected Status (TPS), who are recipients of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), or who are undocumented long-time residents of the United States. Arulanantham represents TPS holders in a legal challenge that seeks to preserve their status, an effort that has involved extensive negotiation over issues that overlap with the legislative process. “This work is particularly meaningful for the center because we are very interested in interrogating the role of race in immigration policy, and the litigation strategy challenging the Trump Administration’s attempt to terminate the TPS program focused in large part on the racist intent behind the Administration’s policy. It also is important to do this work at UCLA in particular, because the origins of DACA, the most meaningful deportation relief policy in recent times, stemmed from work by academics, activists, and students at UCLA and other UC campuses,” Arulanantham says. “The courage and imagination of those young activists continues to inspire our work.”

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UCLA Law Launches Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits With the philanthropy world on the precipice of significant change, UCLA Law has established the Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits, devoted to cutting-edge research, training, and policy in this dynamic and evolving area of the law and society. It will reside within the law school’s Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy (LMI). The new program builds on the vision of UCLA Law alumnus Lowell Milken ’73, who has utilized his own legal background to inform his work as both a businessman and a philanthropist. What forces will transform the world of philanthropy in the years ahead? As baby boomers pass on, expectations are that they will transfer tens of trillions of dollars in wealth to younger generations, well-established nonprofits, and/or family foundations. This massive financial shift is set to upend the processes of philanthropy and the governance of nonprofits. The rise of new ways of conducting philanthropy and changes in the role of nonprofits in society places this issue closer still to the heart of the national political, legal, and social conversation. “The nonprofit sector is undergoing an epochal shift, and lawyers will be at the center of this transformation,” says Professor Lowell Milken Jill Horwitz, a renowned authority in the law of nonprofits and the program’s inaugural faculty director. “UCLA Law and the Lowell Milken Institute now have the opportunity to lead the way in this especially relevant area.” Horwitz, who holds the David Sanders Professorship in Law and Medicine at UCLA Law, recently served as the reporter for the American Law Institute’s Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations. Since its founding in 2011, LMI has been home to UCLA Law’s business law and tax law programs, both of which are ranked in the top 10 nationally. The new program will serve UCLA Law students and all stakeholders in the nonprofit sector, convening practitioners, donors, regulators, and those who run nonprofits. Initially, the Jill Horwitz program will focus on three main goals: 1. Become a research center that develops and shares scholarship and knowledge on issues relating to nonprofits, including tax policy, governance, and the role of nonprofits in developing and promoting social policies. This goal will provide resources to a wide range of participants in the nonprofit sector, including policymakers, regulators, lawyers, and senior managers of nonprofits. 2. Develop and expand education at UCLA Law for students, lawyers, directors, and senior managers of nonprofits on issues that are central to nonprofit operations, financial management, and governance. 3. Support thought leadership on legal issues material to nonprofits so that the program serves as an important resource for the operation and governance of nonprofits and as a venue to bring together practitioners, scholars, and regulators. “Lowell Milken brought this new law and philanthropy program concept to us, showing incredible foresight about generational wealth transfer,” says Joel Feuer, executive director of LMI. “We are immensely grateful to Lowell Milken for his visionary gift,” says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “Our outstanding UCLA Law faculty, especially in tax law, nonprofit law, and the governance of entities, positions us to be a national resource for scholarship and policy analysis of the nonprofit sector — and we can take a leadership role in the education of legal counsel, nonprofit directors, and executives to meet the challenges that will shape nonprofits.” Among the nation’s most eminent businessmen, philanthropists and leaders in education reform, Milken has donated more than $20 million to the law school during the past decade, including the $10 million gift, then the largest in the school’s history, that launched LMI in 2011. A new gift of $3.7 million has made the new Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits possible. “We’re undergoing a generational shift that promises to make some of the most significant changes to the universe of business law and policy in decades,” Lowell Milken says. “There is a rare and important chance to make an impact on a national scale, and the talent and vision of the people at UCLA Law and LMI make this an exciting and irresistible opportunity.”

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CRENSHAW EARNS MAJOR HONORS UCLA Law distinguished professor Kimberlé Crenshaw earned several major accolades and awards from prominent organizations in academia and the law in the past year. The honors arrived in a year when Crenshaw and her colleagues responded as critical race theory, the area of expertise that she helped found and develop over several decades, came under substantial ﬁre from conservative leaders in government and the media (see story, page 56). In April 2021, Crenshaw was among 252 people – including eight members of the UCLA faculty – elected as members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, which is among the world’s oldest and most esteemed learned societies of scholars, scientists, and artists. That honor followed her receipt of the 2021 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Women in Legal Education and the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Award from the ERA Coalition. Then, in September 2021, she was honored with the 2021 AALS Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession. Crenshaw’s colleagues across the legal landscape nominated her for the award while citing her incredible impact on legal scholarship in human rights and civil rights and her many years of service to the academy. Among the most widely cited scholars in the country, Crenshaw has been a preeminent leader in legal Kimberlé Crenshaw scholarship and critical race theory for more than three decades, having originated the concept of intersectionality in her landmark 1989 University of Chicago Legal Forum article, “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics.” A member of the UCLA Law faculty since 1986, she co-founded the Critical Race Studies program in 2000 and holds the Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights. She also serves as the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law at Columbia Law School, is a co-founder and the executive director of the African American Policy Forum, and is known for developing and promoting the #SayHerName campaign opposing police brutality against Black women. This year, she even recorded the song, “Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout),” with Grammy Award-nominated artist Janelle Monáe. “It is especially heartening to be honored by my colleagues at a time in which critical race theory and intersectionality have become targets of censorship and legal prohibition in many parts of our country,” Crenshaw said in a statement about the AALS Triennial Award. “This extraordinary award elevates my hope that the legal academy will stand ﬁrm against the deepening crisis over independent thought, free speech, and democratic participation, ensuring the next generation will understand better the challenges to our multiracial democracy that we are struggling with today.”

No. 1, Again: Trial Team First Ever to Repeat as Champions When the annual ranking of the top law school trial advocacy teams in the country was released in September, UCLA Law’s A. Barry Cappello Trial Team ranked No. 1 for the second year in a row. The success came after a record-breaking season for the law school’s trial team, including landmark wins in the most esteemed competitions in the country. Fordham University School UCLA Law trial team members Regina Campbell of Law’s Brendan Moore Trial ’23, Will Lorenzen ’23, Natalie Garson ’22, and Stephen Johnson ’22. Advocacy Center compiles the prestigious Trial Competition Performance Rankings, which it describes as “an objective snapshot of achievement in interscholastic law school trial competitions.” Last year, its ﬁrst at No. 1, UCLA Law outranked the more than 160 law schools that participate in trial advocacy tournaments. This year, the law school once again took the top spot, earning 40 points in the rankings, while second-place Georgetown University Law

Center earned 15 points. The trial team’s tally also nearly doubled the previous record for a single season: 21 points. UCLA Law has the most cumulative points of any school in the ﬁve years that the rankings have been tabulated and published. Its 78 points since 2016 well outpace No. 2 Stetson University College of Law’s 58 points. During the 2020-21 school year, in which all student preparation and competitions were conducted virtually, UCLA Law became the ﬁrst law school to win all three of the most prestigious trial competitions in the same season — the Tournament of Champions (sponsored by the National Board of Trial Advocacy), the National Trial Competition (sponsored by the Texas Young Lawyers Association and the American College of Trial Lawyers), and the Student Trial Advocacy Competition (hosted by the American Association of Justice). “The best part of this achievement is that it doesn’t represent the excellence of one student or even one team of students. It represents the excellence of literally dozens of UCLA Law students,” says Justin Bernstein, director of the law school’s A. Barry Cappello Program in Trial Advocacy and leader of the trial team. Since 2019, the Cappello Team has included 41 students, making up 28 separate teams, all of whom contributed to the No. 1 ranking, in addition to alumni and friends of UCLA Law who served as coaches.

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‘Continuing the Fight’: NELSON ’96 TAKES OVER AS TOP NAACP LAWYER When UCLA Law alumna Janai Nelson ’96 was named the next president and directorcounsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (LDF) in November, it was the latest milestone in an inspiring career that has taken her from Westwood to the front lines of civil rights litigation nationwide. significant threats to our democracy. We are challenging bans on critical race theory — a laudable analytical approach that is being used as a pretext to undermine efforts to create equity and celebrate our country’s diversity. We are also fighting voter suppression through litigation, advocacy, and organizing, as well as defending the right to protest. At LDF we are keenly aware of the interrelation and mutual reinforcing nature of each of these efforts to silence the will of people and the use of anti-Black racism to do it.

Sherrilyn Iﬁll and Janai Nelson

A longtime member of the LDF legal team, Nelson has helped lead cases involving voting rights and diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives, among many others. She will continue those and related efforts when she officially takes over for Sherrilyn Ifill and becomes the eighth LDF president and director-counsel — a position first held by Thurgood Marshall — in the spring. Nelson is a former professor at St. John’s University School of Law, a leading scholar of election law, and an eminent voice on civil rights in the national media. She previously served as a Fulbright Scholar who studied political disenfranchisement in Ghana, and clerked for two federal judges. She was UCLA Law’s Fall 2021 Margaret Levy Public Interest Fellow, delivering the lecture “Fighting Racial Injustice in a Vacuum of Truth” in October. In this Q&A, she discusses her incredible track record and vision for the road ahead. Following several high-profile cases — including a successful voter I.D. law challenge in Veasey v. Abbott and then NUL v. Trump, which caused the Trump Administration to rescind its executive order that squelched workplace diversity and inclusion training — what are you working on now?

I’m continuing the fight to ensure that both our First Amendment freedoms and the principles of equal protection and due process embedded in the Fourteenth Amendment are safeguarded from the assault on truth that is presently underway and one of the most

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You and the LDF obviously take a highly strategic approach to policy and litigation. Can you explain a little about your goals, and how you personally think about the challenge of how to use the law and legal systems to prevent harms and promote justice?

The law remains a powerful tool in the fight for justice, and there is still a lot of work around racial justice in our society that the law can advance. It is important to think about the law both as a corrective instrument and as a device to use affirmatively to codify norms and policies that bring us closer to our constitutional ideals. Whether it is challenging hair policies that are used to discriminate against Black people in school or the workplace simply because of the texture or formation of their hair or advocating for a racial impact analysis in connection with a new piece of legislation, we can use the law to protect dignity and humanity and to bring us closer to becoming a society that is as intentional about equality as it has been about other values that define our identity. You recently returned to UCLA Law, albeit virtually, to join a panel on critical race theory and to deliver the Margaret Levy Public Interest Lecture. First of all, thank you! It’s always wonderful to welcome alumni back, and your words have been so powerful for students to hear. How does it feel to be back, even in an online format?

Thank you. It has been lovely to return to UCLA Law, although I wish it could have been in person. Nonetheless, I had an opportunity to meet with students and to connect with faculty. It was also rewarding to be able to present a lecture on the vacuum

“I'm continuing the fight to ensure that both our First Amendment

freedoms and the principles of equal protection and due process embedded in the Fourteenth Fourtee Amendment are safeguarded from the assault on truth that is presen presently underway and one of the most significant threats to our demo democracy. We are challenging bans on critical race theory — lauda analytical approach that is being used as a pretext to a laudable underm efforts to create equity and celebrate our country’s undermine diversi We are also fighting voter suppression through litigation, diversity. advoca and organizing, as well as defending the right to advocacy, protest At LDF we are keenly aware of the interrelation and protest. mutua reinforcing nature of each of these efforts to silence the mutual will of people and the use of anti-Black racism to do it.” PHOTO BY STACY BE PHOTOGRAPHY

of truth that seems to be engulfing us and to do it at UCLA, the home of some of this country’s most authoritative and important critical race theorists and thinkers. I’ve been able to do a fair amount of work with professors Crenshaw, Harris, and Carbado over the years, and we have been working together closely on this issue, as well. I’m grateful that my connection to UCLA has afforded me opportunities to work with these scholars in my capacity at LDF. How has your time at UCLA Law served you in your work at the LDF and elsewhere?

Being at UCLA Law helped build the foundation for my career as a civil rights lawyer and law professor. It was while I was a student at UCLA that I externed in what was then LDF’s Western Regional Office and fell in love with the organization that I will soon lead. UCLA also had so many other opportunities for service and support for public interest law students, including the Nancy J. Mintie ’79 award that I received as a student. UCLA is also where I met Black law professors for the first time — professors Harris and Carbado — which opened my mind to the possibility of law teaching. It seems as if your career is as much about scholarship as it is about litigation and legal strategies. How do you balance those things? And how do they inform one another?

Scholarship is about ideas and imagination based on research and information. And so is strategic litigation and advocacy, which is what defines the work at LDF. I enjoy continuing to write scholarship because it’s a place where you are not constrained — at least not entirely — by what is currently possible or what is pragmatic. To do transformative work — especially on matters of race — you must be similarly unconstrained. Writing scholarship strengthens the muscle of imagination.

What are your best memories of law school?

I have so many wonderful memories from law school. I especially loved my experience on the UCLA Law Review, the National Black Law Journal, and the Women’s Law Journal, as I think that piqued my early interest in scholarship and writing — and teaching. We also had a very robust Black Law Students Association that was extremely active in the law school and in the broader legal community, including in opposition to Prop 209 [which, in 1996, prohibited affirmative action in public education and other government institutions in California]. It’s hard to imagine surviving law school without those friendships and supports. The racial and ethnic diversity of the student body was one of the law school’s greatest strengths. There were so many wonderful professors at UCLA Law that I’d be hard pressed to identify a favorite. What’s your advice for today’s students?

My visit as a Levy Scholar has caused me to reflect on my law school career and put myself in the shoes of a law student in this moment when our democracy is in such peril. If I were just entering the legal profession, there’s much about it that would give me pause, including complicity of some members of the legal profession in creating the present chaos. But I would also be greatly heartened by the power of the rule of law — battered as it is — to hold our democracy, and I would advise today’s UCLA Law students to commit themselves to rebuilding the broken parts of our society with a new vision. To see this moment as an opportunity to redeem what is good about our profession, to reject what is unjust, and to reimagine what is possible through law.

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The aw is aways shifting, and we teach students how to master ski s and transfertheir abi ities to different contexts where they can make ameaningfu difference. ' -PROFESSOR INGRID EAGLY, FACULTY DIRECTOR OF THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM AT UCLA LAW

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The start of 2020 ushered in the 50th anniversary year of UCLA School of Law's trailblazing experiential education program, and students in the wide array of clinics, practicums, and simulations were busy continuing the deep work that has characterized the program for a half century: developing key lawyering skills and putting them to work for maximum impact in the community. A troupe of students and faculcy members from the Documentary Film Legal Clinic were exhaling after their whirlwind tour through the Sundance Film Festival, where they received a rousing round of applause at the premiere of

The Cost ofSilence, on which they had provided invaluable legal support, and where they met with many more potential clients.

Ingrid Eagly, top right, of the Criminal Defense Clinic, with fellow instructor Julie Cramer'03 and students Petar Nalbantov '23 and Jenna Finkle '22. The group won two compassionate release cases this past summer.

Members of the Veterans Legal Clinic on the West Los Angeles VA campus had just completed a pro bono legal services project where they partnered with the restorative justice community group Root & Rebound to help homeless veterans clear traffic tickets chat had prevented chem from getting swift help in employment,

legal challenges chat the pandemic created. Within weeks, and almost exclusively from their home computers, students collaborated with practitioners in the UCLA Voting Rights Project to craft a guide for voters across demographics to overcome substantial hurdles chat they faced in

housing, and government benefits. And students on the law school's Cappello Trial Team, who had honed their skills through the in-depth simulated courtroom experiences of UCLA Law's robust slate of trial advocacy courses, were celebrating their most recent breakthrough victory, in the

order to vote by mail during the pandemic -

work chat led to the

creation of the Voting Rights Practicum before the year was o ut. Students and faculcy members with the Criminal Defense Clinic turned their attention on the Adelanto ICE Processing Center

regional round of the National Trial Competition, and getting

in San Bernardino County. There, they successfully argued in a

ready for their planned trip to nationals.

habeas corpus petition to a federal judge less than a month after statewide stay-at-home orders went into effect chat the conditions

It was in chis moment when the COVID-19 pandemic descended, upending the day-to-day processes oflegal education as

in which their client was being held in civil detention were

much as it threw off life in Los Angeles and around the world.

unconstitutional because the facility was unable to protect him

Amid the disruptions, the experiential education program took rapid action. Harnessing a half century of expertise, members of the program -

from across the UCLA Law community -

took

from COVID-19. And leaders of the law school's clinical work in human rights and jails ramped up a joint project chat would extend through the

stock of the global crisis, identified the many ways in which it

summer with several student fellows in which they represented

intersected with the law, and pivoted to engage in the pressing

people incarcerated at L.A. County's Century Regional Detention

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"Through the years, our professors from across all our programs have driven shifts in experiential education, from developing fundamental approaches to clientcentered lawyering several decades ago to leading the way in movement lawyering and community Iawy er IngtOday, " I

- ALLISON KORN, ASSISTANTDEAN FOR EXPERIENTIAL EDUCATION AT UCLA LAW

Facility in an effort, including an in-person inspection, to

oflawyers and their relationships with clients, as well as the way

improve the conditions in county jails under the emerging

law shapes social justice outcomes in society."

pandemic. "UCLA Law is known for blazing a trail in experiential education -

first, in developing an array of simulated courses

51 Years, 54 Courses "Fostering a learning environment chat challenges students to

where students hone their lawyering skills, and, second, in

develop their practice and professional identities while serving

providing a range of clinical settings where students combine

an increasing number of clients and communities -

their substantive knowledge and skills training to represent

north star," says Allison Korn, UCLA Law's assistant dean for

clients," says Professor Ingrid Eagly, who is the faculcy director

experiential education.

of the law school's Criminal Justice Program. "Law clinics also provide a unique opportunity for students to reflect on the role

chis is our

Amid the widespread societal changes chat came out of the 1960s, legal education was at a turning point. The work of learning to become a lawyer customarily ensconced students in the classroom or library, with liccle more than moot court or the law review to enhance their time and education. Many sought another focus: the opportunity to prioritize not only legal doctrine but the grounded skills of lawyering, the opportunity to not just chink about the law but roll up their sleeves and make a difference. Students were interested in building skills and working to improve society even before they graduated from law school. In 1970, UCLA Law leapt in as one of the earliest and most dominant drivers of experiential education. Defining leaders including David Binder, Paul Boland, Paul Bergman, Gary Blasi, Sue Gillig, and Albert Moore '78 came aboard, most of chem serving as tenure-track faculcy members who were at once expert scholars and inspiring instructors whose motivating focus was on teaching critical practice skills. They pioneered the use of then-revolutionary video technology chat allowed bell-bottomwearing students to deliver simulated courtroom arguments and then critique the playback of their own presentations. And they wrote books on essential lawyering skills chat are used in law schools nationwide to chis day. Over time, their work bred a broader scheme where key skills -

drafting for litigation or transactional practice, interviewing,

oral advocacy, negotiation, and so on -

were developed for

students to use across all practice areas, from social justice to sports law to trial advocacy to mergers and acquisitions to

Allison Korn, assistant dean for experiential education at UCLA Law

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"That we're still going strong after 51 years? I chink it's great," says

environmental policy. In doing so, they put into action a critical

Bergman, who joined the program shorcly after its founding and is

insight of their innovative scholarship in the field: chat lawyering

now an emeritus professor. "Students learn chat, as lawyers, you can't

skills could be taught and analyzed in a thoughtful, intellectually

just stay in one place. So, we have always had an eye on addressing serious way. Students in the fledgling but powerful program thereby

new problems as society changes, including our recent expansion into

embraced a variety of opportunities to develop and practice chose skills

fundamental issues of policy and advocacy -

in simulated classroom settings and, to an extent, in the "real world."

than just representing a particular client in a particular situation."

because lawyers do more

Success in Service Delivering a meaningful and lasting impact in the community whi le preparing students for successful careers in all forms of legal practice has been a central and guiding goa l of UCLA Law's experiential educationa l program. Here is a summary of just a few of our impressive outcomes during the past five years: emp loyment, and other major benefits. In tandem with the

• Members of the Supreme Court Clinic took seven cases to the high court. Their wins include the Court's unanimous

National Association of Minority Veterans and others, it has

decision in the landmark 2017 trademark law case, Mata/ v.

engaged in advocacy on pressing issues including po licing

Tam.

on VA campuses .

• The Criminal Defense Clinic secured a federal pardon

• Often in partnership with Film Independent, the

from President Obama for a man serving a life sentence for

International Documentary Association, and others,

a nonviolent drug offense and compassionate release for

members of the Documentary Film Legal Clinic have

two clients serving life sentences for nonviolent drug crimes;

worked with dozens of filmmakers on matters including

gubernatorial pardons for five men who rebuilt their lives

contract drafting, intellectual property clearance, and other

after serving long stretches of time in prison and were facing

vetting of their projects before distribution . Those movies

deportation; and the release of a detained immigrant who was

have been presented on HBO and PBS and at fi lm festivals

at risk of contracting COVID-19.

including South by Southwest and Sundance. • The Immigrant Family Legal Clinic provided legal counsel to hundreds of people, including one family that won asylum after fleeing persecution in Mexico, from its headquarters at the Robert F. Kennedy Schools in Koreatown. In January 2022,

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Students in the Supreme Court Simulation hosted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, where they peppered him with questions about how lawyers practice before the

a mini-clinic wi ll provide legal assistance to Afghans who have

high court, what the justices look for in advocates, and hints

settled in Los Ange les.

on how the justices conduct so much oftheirwork behind the scenes.

• Rough ly a dozen students with the First Amendment

Amicus Clinic and the Appellate Prisoners' Rights Clinic

• Graduates of the Sports Law Simulation course

delivered oral argument in real cases before judges on the U.S.

networked w ith a roster of high-leve l guest speakers,

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circu it, as wel l as on other several

al lowing some of them to shift seamlessly into coveted

federa l and state appeals courts . • Members of the Human Rights Litigation Clinic earned a victory when the U.S. Court of Appea ls for the Ninth Circuit issued an opinion protecting the possessions of homeless peop le. • The Bail Practicum argued for and orchestrated reductions in bai l or the release of more than a ha lf dozen people who were being held before their criminal tria ls. • The Veterans Legal Clinic has, as of August 2021, served

positions with major sports organizations and teams, including the NH L's Los Ange les Kings. • The Tribal Legal Development Clinic col la borated on the creation of a toolkit that helps leaders across Indian country to address Indigenous and human rights through tribal lawmaking that supports and implements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. • Students in the California Environmental Legislation

and Policy Clinic worked side-by-side with state legislators

837 veterans in 1,192 legal matters, including clearing tickets

to shape vita l legislation, including a bill that responds to

and resolving other barriers to their abi lities to secure housing,

w ildfires brought about by climate change.

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Boundless Possibilities With more than 50 clinics, simulations, and practicums, plus a diverse set of externship opportunities, the experiential education program has something for everyone.

CLINICS

SIMULATIONS

Afgha n Legal Support Mini-Clinic

Advanced Criminal Trial Advocacy

Ca lifornia Environmental Legislation and Po licy Clinic

Advanced Evidence Objections and Arguments

Civil Rights and Policy Accountabil ity Clinic

Advanced Tria l Advocacy

Community Economic Development Cl inic

Appe llate Advocacy: Moot Court Competitions

Community Lawyering in Education Cl inic

Contract Drafting

Criminal Defense Cl inic

Deposition Skills

Documentary Film Legal Cli nic

Envi ronmental Aspects of Business Transactions

First Amendment Am icus Brief Clinic

Healthcare Compliance

Food Law and Policy Cl inic

Insurance for Litigators

Frank G. We lls Environmental Law Clinic

Interna l Corporate Investigations

Human Rights Litigation Clin ic

Internationa l Commercial Arbitration

Immig rant Fam ily Legal Cl inic

Introduction to Negotiations (LLM)

Immigrants' Rights Po licy Clinic

Lawyer as Peacemaker

Internationa l Field Experience: Honduras

Life Cycle of a Business: From Start-up to Sale

Internationa l Human Rights Clin ic

Mediation

Patent Clinic

Mergers and Acqu isitions: Due Diligence

Prisone rs' Rights Clin ic

Merger and Acquisitions: Transactions

Rea l Estate Law: Affordab le Housing Clinic

Negotiation Theory and Practice

Street Law

Patent Litigation

Sup reme Court Cli nic

Pretria l Civil Litigation

Triba l Lega l Development Clinic

Real Estate Law: Affordab le Housing

UCLA Adm inistrative Adjudication Clin ic

Regu latory Lawyering

Veterans Legal Cli nic

Supreme Cou rt Simu lation Tax Practice

PRACTICUMS

Transactiona l Law Meet

Ba il Reform-Pay or Stay: An Exp loration ofthe

Transactiona l Ski lls

Bail System in Ame ri ca

Tria l Advocacy

Law, Organizing & Low-Wage Worke rs Tria l Practice Voting Rights Practicum

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"These innovative courses use the resources of our public institution to make an impact in the community in atangible way." - SCOTT CUMMINGS, THE ROBERT HENIGSON PROFESSOR OF LEGAL ETHICS Today, leaders throughout legal education recognize chat law

panoply of skills in mock settings, and 26 clinics or practicums, where they see real clients. This growth reflects students' considerable range of commitments, faculcy members' significant scholarly and policy engagements, and a dedication to combine a longstanding focus on skills training with real-world engagement -

using mulciple

modes of teaching chat bring broader context to cases and blend policy advocacy with direct representation to accomplish broad-scale change. "Many of our tenured faculcy members direct experiential courses,

students should hold a still-sharper set of tools chat they can cake

training an eye on the most effective methods of teaching skills chat

into practice. Drawing in part on the insights of UCLA Law's faculcy

students can cake into practice," Korn says. "Their scholarship in chis

members -

area is a key focus . Through the years, our professors from across all our

chat lawyering skills are teachable -

experiential

education has become a core component across law school curricula.

programs have driven shifts in experiential education, from developing

(The American Bar Association now requires all law students co

fundamental approaches to client-centered lawyering several decades

complete six credit hours of experiential educat ion.) But chis is only

ago to leading the way in movement lawyering and community

part of the story at UCLA Law, where the experiential program has

lawyering today. It's all in the DNA of the intellectual life of UCLA

enjoyed years of transformative growth. Now, students have many

Law. We augment traditional doctrinal coursework by always asking

opportunities to hone necessary skills in practice by working with real

ourselves and our students how lawyers should conduct themselves and

clients through a robust set of clinics chat offer both direct-service

what roles they cake on -

client work and client-directed legal policy work. Experiential education at UCLA Law now encompasses 54 courses. These include 28 simulations, where students learn and apply a

and then working to play chat out."

Recencly, UCLA Law has embarked on the largest period of expansion in the program's history, launching or significancly boosting 25 diverse and dynamic experiential offerings during

Nina Rabin, who directs the Immigrant Family Legal Clinic, an embedded clinic at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools in Koreatown, working this fall with her students at the law school.

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Alicia Virani '7 7, runs the law school's innovative Bail Practicum, a joint effort between UCLA Law, the Los Angeles County Public Defender's office, and the Bail Project, whose founder, Robin Steinberg, is a Gilbert Foundation Senior Fellow at the law school. the past half-decade alone (see sidebar). These include the

to engage in experiential work and go do things that have an

Immigrant Family Legal Clinic at the Robert F. Kennedy

impact on people's lives."

Community Schools in Koreatown, the Veterans Legal

The program's collective track record is as impressive as it is

Clinic, the Bail Practicum, the Documentary Film Legal

long, and a small sampling of recent accomplishments runs the

Clinic, the Human Rights Litigation Clinic, the Tribal Legal

gamut (see sidebar): seven cases that were briefed and brought

Development Clinic, the Voting Rights Practicum, and the

to the U.S. Supreme Court; eight clients who were freed from

California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic,

prison through compassionate releases, pardons, or a presidential

among many others .

grant of clemency; one family who fled persecution in Mexico

"These innovative courses use the resources of our public

to gain asylum across the border; roughly a dozen students

institution to make an impact in the community in a tangible

who delivered oral arguments in real cases before panels of

way. That's exciting, and that's what we should be doing. It has

federal appellate judges; and countless others who landed

really distinguished UCLA Law's experiential program within

coveted professional positions directly because they had earned

the broader community of Los Angeles - and in the broader

essential abilities and networks by engaging in their experiential

"You're seeing how the law can get applied in the real world to affect real people with the most intensely immediate and personal problems that they're experiencing in their lives." - PAUL WATFORD '94, JUDGE ON THE U.S. COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT

community of experiential learning," says Scott Cummings, the Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics and a longtime

coursework. "Two aspects of our experiential education program have

instructor in the program. "UCLA Law clinicians have long

remained quite constant over the decades: a belief that critical

played an intellectual leadership role in experiential education,

lawyering skills can be engaged with intellectually and effectively

and that is one of our school's defining features. The school

taught, and the fact that a number of our clinicians are, by any

has also created opportunities for doctrinal faculty members

measure, first-rate scholars," says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L.

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Mnookin. ''A more recent change has come in the intensity of

But as they worked through each individual case, they found

our focus on live-client, real-world opportunities. These provide

chat they had to chink strategically and creatively as full attorneys

even more chances for students to make a major impact in the

would, writing letters to landlords in certain cases or developing

community, well before they graduate. That, plus the tremendous

facts for possible litigation in others.

growth in scope and scale in our program in the last few years, are just a few of the things chat I find really exciting." Several recent experiential endeavors were made possible through generous gifts from UCLA Law's alumni and friends. A number of alumni also engage with the program from their leadership

"Those two classes were two of the most engaging courses I took," Watford says. "I chink if I had not taken chose two classes, and I had just taken all the black-letter-law classes, my law school experience would've been a lot less rich." Alphamorlai "Mo" Kebeh '20 similarly found immense

positions at outside partner organizations or as instructors in the

knowledge, satisfaction, and accomplishment when he dove into

classroom and field. Currencly, law school alumni teach experiential

several experiential opportunities during his time as a law student.

courses centered on tribal rights and development, bail reform, and

Kebeh came to UCLA Law with an optimism chat characterizes

documentary filmmaking, among others. For chem, chat means

Bruins of any generation: an expectation chat his legal education

giving back to a law school whose accomplished graduates often

would set him on a path to a fruitful career, as much for himself as

report chat their practical legal education has yielded incalculable career benefits.

Students in the Documentary Film Legal Clinic enjoyed themselves and got plenty of legal work done at the Sundance Film Festival in 2020.

Alumni and Students Embrace the Approach For generations of UCLA Law students, experiential courses are among the ones they remember most fondly, the classes chat they often credit with best preparing chem for their abundant careers. Such sterling testimonials run the gamut, from brilliant and promising current students to the councless alumni who have reached the pinnacles of the profession. Paul Watford '94 serves as a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. Previously, he clerked for Justice Ruch Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court, was an assistant U.S. attorney, and served as a major law firm partner in appellate litigation. To chis day, he reflects on his UCLA Law experiential coursework with tremendous pride -

and an acknowledgement of

the important role chat it played for him. "You're seeing how the law can get applied in the real world to affect real people with the most intensely immediate and personal problems chat they're experiencing in their lives. That definitely has an impact on you in terms of how you view the role of the law in our society and the role of the legal system and what function it can play to try to help people," he says. "It's certainly part of the experiences I've had throughout the course of my life chat I bring to the bench each day." The two experiential courses chat Watford took at UCLA Law -

Trial Advocacy and a low-income housing litigation clinic -

stood out as true eye-openers for him. Watford and his classmates went into the community and interviewed low-income tenants who had made complaints to their landlords, asked for various problems in their apartments to be fixed, and never gotten a response. The students' central goal was to get their clients' problems remedied.

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Innovation and Adaptation "One ofthe great things about UCLA Law is that we're

director Nina Rabin, it is the nation's only immigration

always adapting or adding new courses to meet

law clin ic on a K-12 pub lic school campus and is now part

the needs of the community or respond to growing

ofthe law school's cutting-edge Center for Immigration

concerns and trends in the law and society," says Allison

Law and Policy.

Korn, the assistant dean for experiential education. "Often, that nimb le nature is showcased in our

Other major new endeavors work with and for people who are often far from Westwood, with students

experiential offerings, which have grown substantially in

regularly shuttling to and from meetings with clients

the past five years alone -

throughout Ca lifornia and elsewhere.

often thanks to the generous

support our law school alumn i and friends." Since 2016, UCLA Law has added 25 experiential

Under the directior Dale Cohen and associate director Daniel Mayeda '82, the Documentary Film Legal

courses. Importantly, new offerings are regularly

Clinic premiered in 2017 within the Ziffren Institute

developed within the law school's various centers of

for Media, Entertainment, Technology, and Sports Law.

scholarship. They canvas a broad swath of lega l education, expose students to an array of professiona l possibi lities, and bring about positive results for a great many people in underserved communities and beyond. The Food Law and Policy Clinic launched in 2016 and is supervised by Allison Korn . Students develop innovative lega l and policy solutions that protect public health and advance justice and equity across the modern food system. The clinic partners with organizations and communities across Southern California to increase access to healthy foods, ensure fair compensation and treatment for food workers, and build economic opportun ities within the local food system. In 2017, the law school opened the Veterans Legal

Clinic at the Department of Veterans Affairs campus in West Los Ange les. Under facu lty director Sun ita Patel and associate director Jeanne Nishimoto, students help veterans gain access to benefits and address criminal

It delivers pro bona legal services to documentary filmmakers while giving law students opportunities to work on matters ranging from forging licensing and location agreements to vetting scripts and footage for lega I concerns. Launched last school year, the Human Rights

Litigation Clinic is taught by director Catherine Sweetser and housed within the Promise Institute for Human Rights. It focuses on mechanisms for human rights accountability in domestic courts, including local civil rights litigation for unhoused people and immigrant detainees, trafficking lawsu its, consumer fraud cases targeting corporations that sel l goods produced with slave labor, and more. Students col laborate with law firm partners and nonprofit organizations on actual litigation . Within the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, project director Julia Stein runs

justice issues in order to enhance their opportunities for

the California Environmental Legislation and

jobs, housing, and stability. In addition, the clinic engages

Policy Clinic, which started in 2019 to give students an

with organizations including the National Association

opportun ity to work with legislative staffers, advocates,

of Minority Veterans of America to issue advisories on

and stakeholders on cutting-edge environmental issues.

matters such as policing on VA campuses.

Students contribute to innovative legislative solutions,

The Immigrant Family Legal Clinic debuted

and, w ith visits from top guest speakers, gain a nuanced

in 2019 at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools

understanding of what it takes to make law in Ca lifornia."

in Koreatown. A partnersh ip between the law school, UCLA's School of Education and Information Studies,

Taken together, the scope ofthese and other courses that work d irectly in the commun ity to create

and the Los Angeles Unified School District, the clinic

lasting change is hugely impressive," says UCLA Law

provides no-cost legal support to students and their

Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. "It's a big reason why our

fam ilies from the center of a neighborhood rich in

experiential education program is such a tremendous

diverse immigrant populations. Overseen by clinic

source of pride."

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Students in the law school's Veterans Legal Clinic, housed at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs West Los Angeles campus. Clinic c/ientele includes veterans who are chronically homeless and those who are aging, disabled, and returning from incarceration. for chose whom he would help as a lawyer. A plan to serve society. To

made a professional connection with a guest speaker chat led to

refine his abilities while tackling some of the most pressing issues of the

a summer position at the top sports marketing firm Wasserman.

day. To gain a 360-degree view of legal practice. That path naturally

Then, by deeply engaging in document writing in his Contract

took him straight through the law school's experiential education

Drafting sim ulation and learning the best practices for cou nseling

program.

clients as an in-house attorney in the Corporate Practice Clinic,

During Kebeh's three years at UCLA Law, he participated in

Kebeh gained the practical knowledge and talents to thrive in his

four skills-based courses chat, in sum, well encaps ulate the program

current work as a bankruptcy attorney. " I got something out of

itself. Through chem, he made a difference in the community,

each experience chat I would not normally have gotten through

saw how the power of the law can be applied, secured two sought-

traditional classes," he says . "In doctrinal classes, you read all these

after jobs, and earned the skills chat he needed to flourish in chose

cases and doctrines of law, but you don't really ever see it being

positions. In the Youth and Justice Clinic, Kebeh and his classmates

played out ."

served pregnant teens in juvenile detention centers. Through the Sports Law Simulation, he worked as a representative of a basketball player in a mock negotiation with the Golden State Warriors and

Along with the significant recent growth in live-client clinical opportunities, UCLA Law has seen the further development and honing of its simulation classes. Many students, like Kebeh, cake some of each . Simulations give students the chance to work on their

"Professors are so committed to creative strategies and the most zealous advocacy that I had ever seen: They're willing to pivot to whatever the current needs are and new strategies ... including strategies that exist outside of the typical courtroom setting." - SASHA NOVIS '19

skills in places where it would not be feasible for law students, even with supervision, to cake on actual clients as 2Ls or 3Ls, such as sophisticated business transactions or pretrial advocacy. Many have cycled through Professor Iman Anabtawi's Merger and Acquisitions Transactions simulation during her more than 20 years teaching the course. "I try to help chem understand how material chat they've learned in business associations plays out in the real world, and how they can use chose tools strategically to benefit their clients and to provide the best representation possible of their clients," says Anabtawi, a well-regarded corporate law authority who came to UCLA Law following high-level work in private practice and a U.S. Supreme Court clerkship for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. "We cover everything from employment law to litigation to contract law to remedies, as well as legal strategy, so students actually are exposed to a lot of different substantive areas chat all go into an M&A practice." Current UCLA Law student Mary Ramzy '22 tookAnabtawi's M&A simulation during her second year of law school. At her summer job in a corporate in-house counsel's office, Ramzy's

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Lauren van Schilfgaarde '7 2, second from left, runs the Tribal Legal Development Clinic, which provides legal assistance to Native Nations and tribal organizations. employers were impressed with the lengthy rundown of

specializes in immigration law. Novis says chat her experiential

the deep and comprehensive work chat she had done in the

work in law school set her up for the success she has had in

simulation. "When they heard about the types of assignments

serving others as a practicing lawyer.

we were getting in chis course, they were extremely impressed," says Ramzy, who notes chat one of her summer bosses was a

"One thing I really appreciated is chat the professors are so committed to creative strategies and the most zealous advocacy

UCLA Law alum who had also taken the M&A course. "They

chat I had ever seen: They're willing to pivot to whatever the

said chat the types of assignments and exposure chat we got

current needs are and new strategies chat maybe no one has

in chis class were not things chat first-year associates would be doing. It would be more like third- and fourth-year associates who would have chis type of exposure and responsibility." As stories of students striving and succeeding in transactional courses and practice abound, the law school has emphasized its application of experiential education in the social justice realm. For instructors, chat has meant harnessing an ability to meet issues in the moment. "We don't have a specific kind of case chat we cake on every time we teach the course," says Eagly, who

tried before, including strategies chat exist outside of the typical courtroom setting," she says. ''And live-client clinics allow an opportunity to dedicate a lot of resources to the kinds of cases chat maybe no one else was actually able to cake." Additional clinics tackle impact litigation, legislative lawyering, policy advocacy, and other vital efforts chat elevate the important work of lawyers, lawmakers, and civic leaders. Much of chat has been the mission of the California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic, which launched in

runs the Criminal Defense Clinic with lecturer Julie Cramer

2019 within the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the

'03 and is a leading scholar of immigration and criminal law.

Environment. There, under the guidance of Emmett Institute

"Rather, we're trying to find areas where we, as a legal clinic, can

project director Julia Stein, students work with legislators in

make a unique contribution, including by filling in gaps where

Sacramento to address "some of the toughest policy questions we

there's not already existing nonprofit lawyers or public defenders

plan to tackle," says Tina Andolina, senior policy advisor to state

available. We've found chat our clinic students can shift quickly

Sen. Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica). "The partnership has helped

to address emerging issues and pressing community needs."

our office better prepare for challenging legislative fights and has

For two years after she graduated from UCLA Law, Sasha Novis '19 provided legal services to refugees and separated

armed us with thoughtful material and analysis .... I was always amazed to see how [UCLA Law students] dug just a liccle deeper

families through Al Otro Lado. Today, she is an attorney with

to find critical information, including from other states, chat

the law firm of Stacy Tolchin '01 a fellow UCLA Law alum who

could help guide our efforts to craft good policy."

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Like many of UCLA Law's experiential offerings, chat Emmett Institute clinic is housed in one of the law school's leading centers of research and policy work, a structure chat allows students to gain mulciple levels of understanding and expertise. Catherine Sweetser is deputy director of the law school's Promise Institute for Human Rights, home to the Human Rights Litigation Clinic, which she directs. She says, "UCLA Law's focus on scholarship and collaboration, especially its many institutes and centers chat are doing real-world work, means chat clinic students are supported in a variety of ways and have exposure to these issues before they even start their clinical work." Sweetser continues, "In particular, the Promise Institute has ensured chat there are many professors teaching different courses in

"I have gained a great number of new skills and have further developed other ones. Regardless of the career path I choose, I know that my experience in the clinic has helped me become a better advocate for my future clients."-JESSJOHNSON'23

international criminal law, so chat students working on preparing civil law arguments in their clinical work, using international criminal standards, have knowledge not commonly available at other schools. Similarly, the support of experts at the Criminal

"Ac times, the work was incredibly challenging but even more rewarding. I have gained a great number of new skills and have

Justice Program and at the new Center for Immigration Law and

further developed other ones. I have a deeper understanding of the

Policy means chat students are given a broader context for their

veteran community and the expungement process. I learned about

cases on the local jails and immigration detention facilities. UCLA

developing a case theory, trauma-informed interviewing, data

Law attracts truly passionate public interest students and allows

analysis, and case organization and management. Regardless of the

chem to develop a deep skill set in these areas of law."

career path I choose, I know chat my experience in the clinic has

Ulcimacely, success is a product of the passion chat is shared

helped me become a better advocate for my future clients."

between students, professors, and practitioners with a common goal. Often, their collective impact is felt close to home. "UCLA Law and the University of California have a mission to be part of the community and serve the community, and

Stuart Banner, right, with his Supreme Court Clinic students at the court in 20 77. Among them are Ryan Azad '71, left, who has co-taught the school's Supreme Court Simulation course, and Whitney A. Brown '7 7, third from right, who is clerking for Justice Sonia Sotomayor during the 2027-22 term.

the Veterans Legal Clinic does just chat," says Professor Sunita Patel, who runs the clinic from its offices on the Veterans Administration campus in West Los Angeles, adjacent to the UCLA Campus. "Students provide individual legal services and engage in community lawyering for one of the most marginalized and forgotten communities in the country: unhoused or housing insecure veterans and their family members. They learn what it's like to succeed in small ways with clients and cases. But even when we don't succeed in court, students and clients come away with positive experiences: Learning to navigate even disappointing decisions is part of learning and growing as a lawyer." That has been the experience of current 2L and Veterans Legal Clinic participant Jess Johnson ' 23. "Working in the clinic put into practice what we were learning in the classroom, and after a year of remote law school during the pandemic and doctrinal classes, I was grateful for the opportunity to be working with people again," Johnson says.

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ACHIEVEMENT FELLOWSHIPS:

Law School Dreams Coming True UCLA Law's Achievement Fellowship program provides full-tuition scholarships to students who have overcome significant obstacles to get to law school. It was created five years ago with generous donations from alumni and friends of the school. So far, the program has fostered the success of 39 law students. “We launched the Achievement Fellowship program with incredible support from our alumni to reach inspiring law students who have demonstrated great capacity to achieve and contribute, and who have overcome so much along the way,” says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “For these students, the cost of law school can be an enormous barrier, and certainly this program provides them with a great opportunity. But it does more than that. Achievement Fellows benefit our law school community and the legal profession as a whole, and this program deepens UCLA’s commitment to access and public service.” Here, we give you a chance to meet just three Achievement Fellows from the Class of 2023, who took time from a busy fall schedule — while enjoying their first semester actually on campus! — to share a little of their background, their ambitions, and what they love (so far) about being at UCLA Law.

ERICK DIAZ I’m a Californian, born in Pomona, raised in Upland. For my undergraduate studies I went to UC Irvine, where I double-majored in political science and sociology. Zot Zot! I wanted to go to law school to learn the rules of the game. In college, so much of my time in classes was spent reading and discussing how society affects various communities. Over and again, the overarching theme was how rules, over time, shape the ways different communities function within themselves and interact with each other. I became fascinated with these rules and how individuals can attack or defend the society’s status quo based on their intimate knowledge of the law. As I graduated college, I realized I wanted to participate as an advocate in the law. I came into law school with a little bit of fear. The stereotype of lawyers seems to be that they are very cut-throat and aggressive — I feared that coming to law school would be like entering the lion’s den. But law school at UCLA is anything but that. My classmates have always been kind, helpful, and collaborative My friendships and communities here will last me a lifetime. And, as cliché as it sounds, I really have learned as much from my peers as I have from my professors. My favorite part of law school has been the after-class conversations with my classmates. It’s such a relief knowing that in moments when you feel challenged, you are never alone.

the Achievement Fellowship program with incredible support from our alumni to “ Wereachlaunched inspiring law students who have demonstrated great capacity to achieve and contribute, and who have overcome so much along the way. For these students, the cost of law school can be an enormous barrier, and certainly this program provides them with a great opportunity. But it does more than that. Achievement Fellows benefit our law school community and the legal profession as a whole, and this program deepens UCLA’s commitment to access and public service.” — DEAN JENNIFER L. MNOOKIN

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ROSE CHUTE

DEVON WADE

I was born and raised on the Big Island of Hawaii, coming to San Diego in high school and going to USC for college. When I was considering law schools, UCLA Law stood out to me for its experiential courses and community involvement. I was so inspired by the range of clinics and opportunities to practice lawyering while helping others. But I didn’t realize the extent to which I could explore so many different areas of law. In a single semester, I’m taking classes about federal tax, environmental law, and business transactions. I’m also busy outside of the classroom, giving my time as part of the Animal Law and Environmental Law Society and volunteering in public interest pro bono clinics. That combination of different projects and subject areas has been the most unexpected—and favorite—part of being a law student here but if I had to pick one extracurricular activity that has stood out, it’s been the El Centro Legal Clinic: Let’s Go Liberation! Within my first month of school, I was able to work with attorneys and local LGBTQ-focused organizations to assist individuals in obtaining legal name and gender marker changes. It was an incredible experience. One thing about law school: Your initial career goals are very likely to evolve with your experiences. Mine have, so I’m keeping an open mind about the future. That said, I know that my law degree will provides me with the skills and opportunities to think critically, help others, and speak up about issues that are important to me. I’m proud to be an Achievement Fellow and to share that title with such talented students who have since become friends, and to have a mini-community within UCLA Law. It’s great that UCLA and the legal community continue to create space for people of different backgrounds and experiences.

I’m originally from New York City but I’ve spent the better part of the last decade in Los Angeles, so I consider myself a Southern California transplant. And I attended UCLA during my undergraduate years. The law is the crux at which society rests. I learned early on the power of the law in shaping narrative and impacting lives. My family’s relation to the law is a gift and a curse. On my desk sits a model of the vessel that brought my grandfather to these shores. He crafted the model ship with his hands and it serves as a reminder of his meticulous nature and ingenuity. He immigrated to the United States as a teenager in the 1930s. Over the years, he would often remind us of his voyage. Without the relatively favorable immigration laws of that era, particularly for skilled laborers, my grandfather may have never set foot in this country — the gift. In contrast, I’ve witnessed how the farcical “war on drugs” narrative ultimately shaped policies that led to the disparate application of the law. My father was a Vietnam veteran and struggled with reintegration post-war. He was first introduced to opioids to cope with pain overseas, against the backdrop of war. Once home, he lacked the resources to reconcile his trauma and he and many other veterans returned to opioid use as a recourse. The draconian drug laws of the period criminalized his addiction, stripping him from his family and home — the curse. The law is unparalleled in its ability to effectuate action. This is why I chose to pursue the law. I also wanted to go to law school for the challenge. I get an adrenaline rush when faced with a challenge. And what a challenge it is! You hear the stories about the hyper-competitive nature of law school, but my experience at UCLA Law has been the complete opposite. Here, the culture is one of collaboration. Not only within the student body but between students, faculty, and administration. My path to law school has not been linear but being here at UCLA Law as an Achievement Fellow serves as a reminder that persistence pays off. It’s an honor I will continue to pay forward!

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UCLA Law Celebrates 70th Commencement UCLA School of Law celebrated the Class of 2021 in a livestreamed ceremony featuring keynote speaker U.S. Rep. Ted Lieu (D-CA), Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin, and recorded messages from faculty and special guests, including UCLA and NBA legend Bill Walton, as well as law school alumni Judge Paul Watford ’94 of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and U.S. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand ’91 (D-NY). More than 3,000 people tuned in to cheer on the graduates: 341 J.D.s, 44 LL.M.s, and one doctor of juridical science (S.J.D.) candidate. In addition, the school graduated its inaugural master of legal studies class, with eight people earning an M.L.S. degree (see opposite page). Rep. Lieu, a lawyer himself, spoke directly to the responsibilities that the Class of 2021 must take on as lawyers and citizens. “I urge you as future attorneys to not reject the evidence of your eyes and ears,” he said. “I urge you to tell the truth not only when representing clients, but also to protect the truth when it comes to core issues. The motto of UCLA is ‘Let there be light.’ I hope you will continue to shine the light to push away the dark forces trying to cover up the truth.” Many speakers referred to the non-traditional nature of a virtual graduation and to the extreme social, political, and environmental upheaval of the year that had just passed. In doing so, Mnookin put UCLA Law’s 70th commencement into historical perspective. “Today, we can reflect on 70 years of UCLA Law classes and the moments that each has faced and overcome. There have been easier times, but also, like the present, very hard ones,” she said. “As you prepare for the next chapter of your careers, I hope you will remember that you are part of a tradition of thousands of UCLA Law graduates who have encountered challenges, stared difficulty head-on, and gone out into the world, ready to make a difference.” A slate of accomplished graduates also spoke. Miranda Wilcox gave remarks on behalf of the M.L.S. students and offered a touching tribute to her mother and M.L.S. classmate, Maria Wilcox, who died in January (see memoriam, page 88). Hala Khalil spoke as the LL.M. representative, and Jazmine Buckley gave an impassioned speech on behalf of the J.D. class. Mnookin offered a note of congratulations and gratitude. “My most heartfelt thanks to all of our students who spoke so powerfully today,” she said. “You are extraordinary. You are talented. You are empathetic. You are so very ready to go into the world and to shine.” Walton, famous for his exuberance and irreverence, as well as his intense devotion to UCLA, offered a heartfelt message with a light tone. “We’re the luckiest people on Earth: graduates of UCLA! What a privilege and honor, one that carries with it duty, responsibility, and obligation. New UCLA lawyers – please save us! From ourselves!”

The day after commencement, graduates were welcomed to campus for in-person recognition ceremonies and pictures with one another.

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UCLA Law Graduates First M.L.S. Class Amid the cheers and celebration that accompanied UCLA Law’s 2021 commencement ceremony were plaudits for eight students who made up the first class of graduates from the law school’s Master of Legal Studies program. The program launched in 2020 as a way of opening doors to professionals who seek to master legal principles and advance their careers. It was the first time in UCLA Law’s seven-decade history that the school has offered a degree program for non-lawyers. Students in the program either design their own course of study or specialize in a particular area. The program allows students to earn their degrees in a single year of full-time classwork or in two-to-four years of part-time work. Members of the first graduating class completed their degrees in a single year. Two specialized in public interest law, two in employment and human resource law, two in entertainment and media law, one in government and national security law, and one in general studies. David Holtkamp M.L.S. ’21 worked in human resources at ISS before he entered the program, and he credits it with sharpening his skills. “What I learned in class has translated quite well to the working environment in multiple ways," he says. "I can contribute to the discussions and issues that come up regarding employee

relations and arbitration agreements — topics that I didn't have as much knowledge of before.” Other students were hired by new employers who were impressed with their M.L.S. credentials. Miranda Wilcox M.L.S. ’21 got a job in the business and legal affairs department at the Fox Corporation. “I learned the basics of law, which is directly applicable to what I do,” she says. “Drafting skills, negotiating, even just being able to speak with attorneys, this program was ideal.” Meanwhile, longtime journalist Penny Rosenberg M.L.S. ’21 took time off from her work as an editor at a variety of newspapers in Southern California to be a full-time M.L.S. student. The effort paid off, and she was hired as the editor of the Albany Democrat-Herald and the Corvallis Gazette-Times in Oregon after graduation. “I was able to apply my legal background right away when I returned to the job,” Rosenberg says. “In one week, my reporters were writing on topics that I learned about, and I was able to shape their stories and have them go deeper into those topics. I was thrilled.” Another thirty-three members of the first incoming M.L.S. class are doing their course work on a part-time basis and will begin graduating in 2022.

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How Lawyers Shape Social Movements in Los Angeles equal. In that way, the book’s title, An Equal Place, is meant to convey a double meaning.

Scott Cummings

An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles (Oxford University Press, 2021), by Scott Cummings, Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics, oﬀers a close look at the lawyers who were central to Southern California’s social and labor movements from 1992 to 2008. Following his Blue and Green: The Drive for Justice at America’s Port (MIT Press, 2018) – which documents the impact of the law on a push to improve the trucking industry at the Port of Los Angeles – An Equal Place is a broader survey that focuses on the people who, as Cummings writes, “work daily to make the city live up to its better angels and make real the dreams it presents to the world” and how “the legal profession can still serve as a wellspring for social change in a moment in which change is so desperately needed.” Cummings shares how he uncovered the book’s vivid stories, some lessons about lawyering, and what the future holds. What did you learn as you conducted your research and wrote the book? The book takes a behind-the-scenes deep dive into campaigns where lawyers helped build worker power and transform labor conditions in L.A. But they hardly did this work alone. Rather, they worked side-by-side with grassroots social movements to rewrite local laws. I interviewed scores of lawyers and activists from the period and mined original campaign documents. What struck me was that lawyers were working to change the city by changing how they engaged with local movements – lawyers and activists worked together, equally, on campaigns to make the city more

Is there a story that you uncovered that best illustrates this? One of my favorites is about Thomas Saenz, a lawyer from the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, who was an architect of the campaign to end laws that made it illegal for day laborers to stand on the sidewalk to solicit work. What made the effort so successful was not just that Saenz was skilled at litigation but that he had built relations with day laborers themselves, developed a partnership with organizers, and created a strategic plan that was about shifting public attitudes toward day laborers and not just winning the case in court. [Editor’s note: Saenz has since become the president and general counsel of MALDEF.] In the book, I seek to elevate other less appreciated roles that lawyers play behind the scenes in creating new legal knowledge that contributes to the design and outcome of policy campaigns. Would the movements have been as successful without lawyers playing these roles? Social struggle, at least in the American context, invariably involves law, legal processes, and legal institutions – which means that the struggle for social change almost always involves lawyers. Would L.A. have had laws like the living wage, community benefits, and clean truck program? Sure. Would they have been as sophisticated, building in provisions designed to create conditions of possibility for union organizing? No. For that, lawyers were essential. The book begins with the Rodney King uprising and ends with the Great Recession. But how does it offer help in predicting the future of lawyers in social movements? If social movements are to be successful in the multifaceted process to produce sustainable shifts in culture, they have to work on changing law. But we are in such a different place – a much less equal place, in fact – than the period I describe in the book. The pandemic revealed in stark relief our deeply flawed, unequal, and divided democracy. Far from an equal place, L.A. is a microcosm, perhaps even an incubator, of broader economic division. I think a key takeaway is the power of sustained collective struggle to change law that seeks to make real the promise of American democracy. My modest hope for the book is that it serves as a marker of just what it takes to mount large-scale challenges to powerful systems to change law and build movements.

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DOLOVICH WINS UCLA DISTINGUISHED TEACHING AWARD UCLA Law Professor Sharon Dolovich earned the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award for 2020-21, with an additional citation for Distinction in Teaching at the Graduate Level. With only six professors across the UCLA campus so honored, the Distinguished Teaching Award is the university’s highest recognition of excellence in the classroom. The UCLA Academic Senate has presented the award since 1961 “to increase awareness of UCLA’s leadership in teaching and public service by honoring individuals who bring respect and admiration to teaching at UCLA.” In addition to the honor for members of the university’s tenure-track faculty, awards also go to leading lecturers and teaching assistants. Dolovich is the 32nd member of the law school community to earn this accolade. She joined UCLA Law in 2000 and is the faculty director of the Prison Law and Policy Program. She teaches courses in and is an authority on criminal law, the constitutionality of prisons and punishment, and other post-conviction issues. Dolovich co-edited and received wide acclaim for the 2017 Sharon Dolovich book The New Criminal Justice Thinking (NYU Press), which built on her work as a scholar who is known for closely collaborating with and mentoring her students. “It is an honor to receive this award in a school known for its outstanding teaching,” Dolovich says. “For me, teaching is a two-way street. I learn from my students every day.” Dolovich founded the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project and assembled a team of more than 160 people, including many student and alumni volunteers, to compile and analyze information on the harsh impact of COVID-19 in the nation’s prisons and jails. Since March 2020, the project has regularly made national news, and Dolovich has shared bylines with her collaborators in the Journal of the American Medical Association and other leading publications. In supporting Dolovich’s nomination for the award, numerous students, alumni, and colleagues lauded her work as “a builder” – as much in the expanding academic ﬁeld of prison law as in the successful careers and lives of her students and former students.

Achiume Named World Economic Forum Young Global Leader UCLA Law Professor E. Tendayi Achiume was named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for 2021. The honor from the World Economic Forum – the organization that presents the renowned annual summit in Davos, Switzerland – celebrates “the world’s most inspiring and responsible leaders under the age of 40.” It recognizes people who “come from diﬀerent communities E. Tendayi Achiume and industries worldwide” and are committed to making a diﬀerence. The year’s 112 honorees include leaders in politics, economics, social movements, and the arts, and eight, including Achiume, are from Africa. According to the World Economic Forum, “These young leaders exemplify what we need most today: hope, empathy, authenticity and the drive to develop solutions that can change the world for the better.”

Achiume earned her B.A. and J.D. from Yale University and joined UCLA Law in 2014. Since 2017, she has also served as the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. She is the ﬁrst woman to hold that position, and she frequently travels the globe to observe situations of severe injustice and draft reports on inequality, hate speech, and other matters of grave concern, often with key input from her students. This year, she was appointed the inaugural holder of the Alicia Miñana Chair in Law. At UCLA Law, she teaches international human rights law, property, and the innovative International Human Rights Clinic, through which students collaborate with local and international human rights organizations on policy, litigation, and advocacy projects. She has taken teams of students to U.N. summits in New York and Switzerland, where they have gained an inside view into international human rights work at the highest level. In 2020, she won the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, the university’s highest recognition of excellence in the classroom.

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Mackintosh, Promise Institute Drive Effort on Ecocide Scholars from UCLA School of Law’s Promise Institute for Human Rights have played a key part in defining the new crime of ecocide, which could have significant implications for battling climate destruction. The latest effort to produce an internationally accepted legal definition of ecocide — meant to describe mass environmental destruction — has its roots in a 2020 symposium at UCLA Law. That event explored the connection between human rights and the climate crisis, and it gave rise to a working group dedicated Kate Mackintosh to exploring a new definition of the term. The group joined forces with an international drafting panel, for which Kate Mackintosh, executive director of the Promise Institute, served as co-deputy chair. “It seems obvious, on a moral and intuitive level, that destruction of our environment should be an international crime,” says Mackintosh, who relied on the support of UCLA Law students during her work on the project. “Our job was to bring together our collective knowledge of international criminal and environmental law and create a credible new international crime to take its place alongside genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity.” Ecocide has been in the lexicon since the Vietnam War, when the term was used to describe the immediate and long-term damage that the

defoliant chemical Agent Orange caused. In the decades since, scholars and legal experts launched efforts to recognize ecocide as a crime of the same magnitude as genocide but politics and shifting international priorities kept those efforts at bay. While some nations adopted ecocide laws, the global community never fully embraced them, limiting legal options to hold even the most destructive actors accountable. Thanks to Mackintosh and her colleagues, the new definition could revolutionize the way the world determines what constitutes a crime against the health of the planet. For the new definition to become a part of international law, two-thirds of the nations that are signed up to the International Criminal Court must vote to adopt it. If adopted, ecocide would be the first new international crime since 1945, when the horrors of World War II fueled international support for common legal foundations against genocide and crimes against humanity. Mackintosh says that under an international law shaped by the new definition, corporate and governmental decisionmakers could be held personally responsible for their actions or inactions. “Ecocide law has been written so that individuals who have the ability to make powerful environmental decisions will understand they are personally accountable for the outcomes of those decisions,” she says. “Ideally ecocide law need never be used. The hope is that this will change the risk analysis in a way that leads to better choices for the environment. We all win when that happens.”

An ‘Opportunity to Give Back’: First Graton Scholars Arrive at UCLA Law

Ashley Anderson

Shara Burwell

Rachel Hsu

Ashley Anderson was broadly engaged as a high school student in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. National Honor Society member. Two-time participant in the VEX Robotics World Championship, where she competed against kids from communities far from her home in Cherokee County. And through college at Harvard University and the years that followed, Anderson developed a strong focus and sense of purpose — a motivating ethic that she can now put into action as a Graton Scholar at UCLA Law. “I hope to use my legal training to ensure healthy ecosystems on tribal lands, including my hometown,” she says today. Alongside Shara Burwell and Rachel Hsu, Anderson joins UCLA Law in large part thanks to a transformative full-tuition scholarship that was created in 2020 through a gift of $15 million from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria. The Graton Scholars program brings to the law school the most talented students who are from Native Nations or who are interested in pursuing careers as tribal advocates. UCLA Law is a longtime leader among the country’s preeminent law schools in developing courses, programs, and scholarship addressing the legal standing and rights of Native peoples. Graton Scholars thus gain an invaluable education and entrée into a distinguished Indian law network. “We are so fortunate to be welcoming Ashley, Shara, and Rachel to UCLA Law as our first Graton Scholars,” says Professor Angela R. Riley, who oversees the Graton Scholars program. “We know that they — and the generations of Graton Scholars who follow them — will use their legal education to advocate for Indian country, defend tribal sovereignty, and advance Indigenous rights.” Hsu attended Barnard College and has worked as a tutor for disabled students, a legal assistant at an intellectual property law firm, a supervisor at a homeless shelter, and an intern at the Museum of Modern Art. “While I’m approaching law school with an open mind, I know my legal career will center around art and cultural property law,” she says. “The protection of Native American cultural artifacts and practices deserve my greatest focus as the longest-standing cultural patrimony in Los Angeles, California, and North America overall.” Burwell graduated from San Diego State University and worked for the innovative Peruvian organization Awamaki, empowering Indigenous women and girls who work as artisanal weavers in rural communities. “My grandmother is a member of the Leech Lake band of the Ojibwe tribe and an Indian boarding school survivor. She was taken from her reservation and family and adopted to a white family, and yet, she is one of the lucky ones,” she says. “The systems of power are failing Indigenous women around the world and these women need an advocate to fight for them. I want to be that advocate."

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Carbado, Patel Win Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Awards

Devon Carbado

Sunita Patel

UCLA recognized Professor Devon Carbado and Assistant Professor Sunita Patel with top honors for their service and commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion. Carbado received the 2020-21 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for Career Commitment to Diversity. Patel earned the 2020-21 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for Community Service and Praxis. The awards are presented annually by the UCLA Academic Senate, which traditionally recognizes outstanding professors and other instructors in a variety of disciplines across the campus. Carbado and Patel are the third and fourth members of the law school community to receive these awards since they were ﬁrst bestowed in 2000. Carbado is the Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law. For nearly three decades, he has been a global leader and major driver of scholarship in critical race theory, implicit bias, employment discrimination, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and more. He co-founded the Critical Race Studies program more than 20 years ago

and more recently served as UCLA’s Associate Vice Chancellor of BruinX for Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion. A widely published author, his works include the seminal book Acting White? Rethinking Race in “Post-Racial” America (Oxford University Press, 2013), which he co-wrote with Mitu Gulati. His cutting-edge and resonant scholarship has drawn widespread praise, and he has earned leading fellowships from the Fletcher Foundation and the Atlantic Philanthropies. Carbado has also steered generations of students to impactful careers as lawyers of conscience. The numerous awards that he has earned include the Clyde Ferguson Award from the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Minority Groups, the law school's Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching, and UCLA's Distinguished Teaching Award and Eby Award for the Art of Teaching. They recognize the value that he has long brought as a teacher and mentor inside and out of the classroom. He has been a member of the UCLA Law faculty since 1997. Patel works closely with students through her leadership as the founding faculty director of UCLA Law’s Veterans Legal Clinic, which is housed on the Veterans Administration campus in West Los Angeles. There, she guides students as they provide a wide array of legal services to unhoused veterans and their families, including access to beneﬁts and eﬀorts to address criminal justice issues that enhance veterans’ opportunities for jobs, housing, and stability. She focuses her research and teaching on policing, social movements, and structural inequality, and her current scholarship focuses on how policing intersects with healthcare and other areas of care work. A seasoned litigator and advocate in public interest law, she previously steered a class action lawsuit that curbed the New York Police Department’s controversial stop-and-frisk practice, among other impactful cases. She joined UCLA Law in 2017.

COVID Behind Bars: UCLA Law Research Featured in Top Publications While the COVID-19 pandemic continued to rage during 2021, UCLA Law's COVID Behind Bars Data Project zeroed in on a community that has been especially vulnerable to its impact: people who live and work in America's prisons and jails. Part of this work included key research and data analysis that formed the basis of articles in two leading national journals, both underscoring the disparate impact of the disease. In April, Professor Sharon Dolovich, who founded and directs the project, co-authored an article that analyzes key data on the willingness of incarcerated people to receive vaccinations. The article, “Willingness to Receive COVID-19 Vaccination among Incarcerated or Detained Persons in Correctional and Detention Facilities — Four States, September–December 2020,” was published in the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), one of the nation’s oldest and most esteemed epidemiology publications. The writers found that willingness to receive a COVID-19 vaccine was lowest among Black participants (36.7%), incarcerated people between the ages of 18 and 29 (38.5%), and those held in jails versus prisons (43.7%). Prisoners most commonly refused vaccinations because they distrusted healthcare, correctional, or government personnel or institutions. And among study participants who said that they would refuse vaccinations, nearly one in ﬁve believed that they were not at risk for COVID-19 and deemed vaccinations unnecessary. In October, Dolovich co-wrote an article on rates of COVID-19 infection and death in U.S. prisons in the Journal of the American Medical Association, the country’s leading medical journal. The research letter, “COVID-19 Incidence and Mortality in Federal and State Prisons Compared With the US Population, April 5, 2020, to April 3, 2021,” delivers an accounting of “COVID-19 cases and deaths among prisoners in all 50 state prison systems and the Federal Bureau of Prisons” over the course of a year. The COVID Behind Bars Data Project collected the information from sources including corrections departments’ websites, the Marshall Project, and the Associated Press, and the co-authors found that nearly 400,000 COVID-19 cases and 2,555 deaths were reported in U.S. prisons. They wrote that “the cumulative toll of COVID-19 has been several times greater among the prison population than the overall US population.” The publications followed a July 2020 piece in JAMA, “COVID-19 Cases and Deaths in Federal and State Prisons,” in which Dolovich and her co-authors found that people incarcerated in U.S. prisons tested positive for COVID-19 at a rate 5.5 times higher than the general public. FALL 2021 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE 35

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CORPS OF APPEALS Clinic Students Score Big Wins at Ninth Circuit

Appellate Prisoners’ Rights Clinic students Benjamin Levine, Ilse Gomez, Amaris Montes, and Alberto De Diego Carreras

When the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit convened over Zoom on May 4, a panel of judges heard oral arguments delivered by several highly skilled advocates — four of whom were UCLA Law students. “Arguing before the Ninth Circuit was truly a thrill. As someone who intends to pursue appellate litigation, I feel very fortunate to have had my ﬁrst oral argument experience at such an early stage in my career,” says Alberto De Diego Carreras ’21. As a certiﬁed law student in the case of Coston v. Nangalama, he represented an incarcerated person who sued prison medical providers after they abruptly terminated his pain medication. And when the judges delivered their opinion in September, his side prevailed. “Having the opportunity to represent a client and actually achieve their desired result in this way is as gratifying as it gets.” De Diego Carreras and Amaris Montes ’21 collaborated on Coston v. Nangalama, while fellow students Ilse Gomez ’21 and Benjamin Levine ’21 worked on the case Chaziza v. Stammerjohn. In doing so, they earned the uncommon opportunity to appear before the panel of federal judges before they graduated from law school through UCLA Law’s innovative and intensive Appellate Prisoners’ Rights Clinic. Launched in 2020 and supervised by Aaron Littman, one of UCLA Law’s Binder Clinical Teaching Fellows, the clinic allows students to work on Ninth Circuit appeals in civil rights cases brought by prisoners who had previously represented themselves. Working with a team of top appellate and civil rights attorneys who served as co-instructors of the clinic — Caitlin Weisberg of McLane, Bednarski & Litt and Emily Cuatto and Barry Levy of Horvitz & Levy — the students probed the district court records, researched relevant case law, drafted multiple briefs, and participated in a half dozen moot courts to prepare for their appearances. “The clinic required an extraordinary amount of work from the students, who took ownership of the cases as joint lead counsel,” says Littman.

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For the students, all of whom graduated in May, the work has already paid off. De Diego Carreras now clerks for Judge Diane Wood of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit in Chicago. He says, “Besides the fact that my writing is that much clearer and more precise, I began my clerkship with a deeper understanding of the inner workings of the courts of appeals because of how much I learned.” Montes also sees her effort in the clinic and her Ninth Circuit argument as a natural lead-in to her work as a Skadden Fellow at Rights Behind Bars, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., dedicated to representing incarcerated people. “The work I did with the clinic will allow me to hit the ground running on the appellate work with Rights Behind Bars because I have already learned so much about the appellate process, as well as the substance of prisoner rights cases,” she says. The success of the Appellate Prisoners’ Rights Clinic was, in fact, the second Ninth Circuit victory for students who worked and learned in a UCLA Law clinic during the fall of 2020. Also in September, judges delivered their opinion in Garcia v. Los Angeles, in which they affirmed a trial court’s ruling that the city cannot remove certain possessions of homeless people. The decision was the next big step in a multi-year effort involving several law firms and nonprofit advocates. They include UCLA Law alumna Shayla Myers ’08 of the Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, who argued the matter before the court, and Catherine Sweetser, who serves as the deputy director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights and director of the Human Rights Litigation Clinic. (Lawyers Benjamin Herbert and Michael Onufer of Kirkland & Ellis and Tanya Greene ’09 of McGuireWoods are also lead attorneys.) Sweetser’s clinic also started in 2020. It focuses on protecting human rights in domestic settings, in matters involving unhoused people, immigrant detention, human trafficking, consumer fraud, and slave labor. Collaborating with law firms and nonprofits, students gain invaluable legal skills through research, brief writing, strategizing with practicing attorneys, and more. In the Garcia matter, students Vincent Liu ’21, Shyann Murphy ’22, and Darren Schweitzer ’21 worked on research and investigation during discovery, met with the client, and prepared arguments for appeal. Murphy, a current 3L, continued on to the advanced clinic in the spring semester and acted as a judge during a moot for Myers. “It was gratifying to work on something so important,” says Murphy, who plans to continue to represent unhoused people after graduation. “I’m so glad UCLA Law offers this clinic. I got to see litigation in various stages in very different cases. I was challenged, I learned a ton, and I felt like I grew in ways that will be very helpful as I enter my career.”

Success in Service: Students Earn Top Public Interest Fellowships Continuing UCLA Law’s proud commitment to public service and public interest legal work, a total of 10 students earned highly competitive public interest fellowships in 2020-21. “We are so proud of our students for earning these leading fellowships, which will help them launch their careers as impactful public interest lawyers,” says Karin Wang, executive director of UCLA Law’s David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. “It is gratifying that these honors recognize what we at the law school have always known: UCLA Law students are supremely prepared to go out into the world and make a diﬀerence as thoughtful and capable attorneys – especially in communities of color or elsewhere that the need is the greatest.”

Equal Justice Works

Maya Chaudhuri

Shaunita Hampton

Skadden Fellowships Nicole Hansen ’21, Amaris Montes ’21 and Anusha Ravi ’21 received Skadden Fellowships, among the most prestigious and competitive awards for public interest law students. UCLA Law ranks among the Nicole Hansen top four law schools in the country for graduating students who garner Skadden Fellowships, and this marked the third consecutive year, and fourth year out of the past ﬁve, in which three UCLA Law students were so honored. Amaris Montes Hansen is working at the Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C., engaging in advocacy and litigation in several Western states to advance Native Americans’ equal opportunity to participate eﬀectively in Anusha Ravi nontribal elections by improving access to in-person voting and boosting representation through redistricting. Montes has joined Rights Behind Bars in Washington, D.C., where she investigates conditions and litigates on behalf of children detained in the four local immigration detention centers in the nation’s capital region, focusing on children with disabilities and their mental health needs. And Ravi is at A Better Balance in Nashville, Tennessee, where she enforces the new Tennessee Pregnant Workers Fairness Act by providing direct legal services to low-wage workers of color and collaborating with healthcare providers and others to educate workers on their rights under the law. As this article was going to press, three more UCLA Law students earned 2022 Skadden Fellowships. Read about them at law.ucla.edu.

Idalmis Vaquero

Maya Chaudhuri ’21, Shaunita Hampton, and Idalmis Vaquero ’21 garnered Equal Justice Works fellowships, in which they work for two years in a community with unmet legal needs. Chaudhuri is at the Texas Fair Defense Project in Austin, Texas, where she works to bring transparency to hearings where people can be jailed for being unable to pay cash bail or ﬁnes. Hampton was set to join Legal Aid of San Mateo County in Redwood, California, where she will work with residents to gain aﬀordable and fair housing. And Vaquero earned a position with Communities for a Better Environment in Huntington Park, California, where she will work to defend families against environmental contamination in east and southeast Los Angeles.

Gideon’s Promise

Hayley Hofmann

Joseph Yankelowitz

Hayley Hofmann ’21 and Joseph Yankelowitz ’21 won fellowships through the Gideon’s Promise Law School Partnership Project, which places graduates in public defender oﬃces around the country to oﬀer superior legal representation to low-income individuals in the criminal justice system. Hofmann was placed with the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy in Stanton, Kentucky. Yankelowitz earned a position with the Mecklenburg County Public Defender in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Justice Catalyst

Melodie Meyer

Ming Tanigawa-Lau

Melodie Meyer ’20 and Ming TanigawaLau ’21 received Justice Catalyst fellowships, which allow recent graduates to apply their legal skills to boost people who have been denied equal access to justice. Meyer is working at the Yurok Tribe’s Oﬃce of the Tribal Attorney in Klamath, California, where she is serving as an advocate for indigenous communities that have been negatively impacted by climate change. Tanigawa-Lau has joined the Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project, where she is working with more than 100,000 asylum seekers to achieve systemic reform in the asylum process.

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Tribal Clinic Develops Toolkit to Help Indigenous Peoples Assert Their Rights Students and faculty members in UCLA Law's Tribal Legal Development Clinic have created the "Tribal Implementation Toolkit," which will assist Indian country leaders as they address Indigenous and human rights through tribal lawmaking. The toolkit, developed in collaboration with students and attorneys at the University of Colorado Law School and the Native American Right Fund, or NARF, supports and implements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The toolkit is available for free to the public and stands as an invaluable resource for tribal leaders and communities to implement the key aims of the 2007 U.N. Declaration. The Declaration is a far-reaching, aspirational document recognizing that Indigenous Peoples have a wide array of rights, including self-determination, equality, property, culture, religious freedom, health, and economic well-being, among others. The Declaration also calls on states to undertake legal reform that will remedy past violations and ensure current protections for Indigenous Peoples’ rights going forward. “The work of the UCLA students was incredibly valuable to this Angela Riley

project,” says John Echohawk, executive director of NARF. “Not only did they bring exceptional research and writing skills to the work, their commitment to and passion for human rights eﬀorts made them wonderful collaborators and colleagues.” The eﬀort was supported by a 2019 gift of more than $1.3 million from the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to fund

the clinic and help strengthen legal institutions across Indian country by developing model legal systems and practices that can be adopted by Native Nations. “The toolkit provides guidance for tribes on how to implement the Declaration wholesale into tribal law, as well as how to approach some of the subject matters in tribal law,” says Lauren van Schilfgaarde ’12, UCLA Law’s San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Legal Development Clinic Director. “As we developed the toolkit, we focused on elevating tribal law as an avenue for implementing the Declaration’s call for indigenous and human rights.” Under the direction of van Schilfgaarde and others, several students participated in the project, including UCLA Law’s Elena Aguirre ’21, Ryann Garcia ’21, and Hershini Gopal ’21. Clinic members and their partners designed the toolkit speciﬁcally to enable Indigenous Peoples to fully enjoy all of the human rights and fundamental freedoms that are recognized in the U.N. Charter,

Lauren van Schilfgaarde

as well as the right to be free from any kind of discrimination. The toolkit oﬀers leaders a blueprint to incorporate the Declaration into their tribal codes, resolutions, or agreements to address issues including language revitalization, land recovery, and child welfare.

“The work of the UCLA students was incredibly valuable to this project. Not only did they bring exceptional research and writing skills to the work, their commitment to and passion for human rights efforts made them wonderful collaborators and colleagues.” — John Echohawk

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Judge Rand Schrader Pro Bono Program Launches UCLA Law has launched the Judge Rand Schrader Pro Bono Program. It brings all of the school's existing pro bono opportunities under one umbrella, allowing UCLA Law to better meet the growing need for pro bono legal representation to address Grace Meng social challenges in Los Angeles. The program is named for UCLA Law alumnus Judge Rand Schrader, Class of 1973 (see story, page 78), a pioneering attorney. Schrader lived his life as an openly gay man when doing so could result in being denied admission to the bar. He created the nation’s first LGBT law student group while a student at UCLA Law and he was the first openly gay attorney in the Los Angeles City Attorney’s office. Later, he was one of the first openly LGBT judges in the United States. “His courage and convictions inform the ethos of the school’s longstanding commitment to public service, in particular on behalf of the most vulnerable parts of the Los Angeles community,” says Brad Sears, the Associate Dean of Public Interest Law. “I am thrilled to launch this program,” says Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “It is an incredible addition to our school and will create a framework

for our students to engage in new kinds of transformative work. I am also tremendously pleased that the program will honor an amazing alumnus of our school.” The genesis of the funding that supports this new program was initiated by a bequest from the late Jesse Dukeminier, a beloved property professor at UCLA Law for many decades, and his partner, David Sanders. The Bohnett Foundation, founded by Rand Schrader’s surviving partner David Bohnett, provided the funding to bring the initiative to scale. Other donors to the new program include Aileen Adams, Michael Fleming, Dean Hansell, Shawn Kravitz, Meyer and Renee Luskin, Burt Pines, Rob Saltzman, and Cathy Unger. The program’s inaugural director is Grace Meng. Meng joins the law school from Human Rights Watch, where she has been associate director in the U.S. program. As associate director, Meng has been a researcher, advocate, and writer focused on the rights of immigrants in the United States. A former immigration law practitioner, Meng is a graduate of Yale College and Yale Law School. “My pro bono experiences changed my life, and I’m excited to support the talented students at UCLA Law in finding pro bono work they can be passionate about and pursue throughout their careers,” says Meng. The launch of the Pro Bono Program coincided with the launch of the school’s Public Service Challenge, a new UCLA Law tradition than invites students, faculty and staff to commit to two hours of pro bono service in a ten-day period. During the first two challenges, over 500 members of the law school community logged more than 1,600 hours of community service.

Students Honored With Inaugural Susman Godfrey Prize Three UCLA Law students were honored with the inaugural Susman Godfrey Prize, which recognizes the outstanding accomplishments of law students of color across the nation. Regina Campbell ’23, Kaysie Gonzalez ’23, and Galyn Sumida-Ross ’23 together made up a quarter of all 2021 winners. UCLA Law was home to the largest number of honorees, who came from an array of top law schools. The prize was launched this year, according to Susman Godfrey, “as part of the firm’s ongoing commitment to enhancing diversity in the legal profession and with the goal of increasing the pipeline of diverse attorneys Regina Campbell Kaysie Gonzalez Galyn Sumida-Ross interested in civil trial litigation.” Students of color in their first or second years of law school were nominated by their professors or administrators, and they were selected after participating in virtual interviews with lawyers at the firm. They earned $2,500 and an offer of a Summer 2022 clerkship at any of the firm’s offices. “What really stands out about UCLA Law is not only the brilliant students and faculty but the incredibly supportive and encouraging community. That’s why I think UCLA’s students were able to stand out amongst some of the brightest law students in the country,” says Campbell, who has served as co-president of UCLA Law’s trial team and a Susman Godfrey 1L Diversity Fellow. Sumida-Ross is a student in UCLA Law’s Epstein Program for Public Interest Law and Policy and has earned a fellowship through the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles and the Inner City Law Center. “I appreciate that Susman Godfrey created a diversity prize that is open to students like myself who are committed to pursuing a career in public interest law,” she says. “I am honored to receive the Susman Godfrey Prize alongside my outstanding friends, Regina and Galyn. We owe special gratitude to Professor LaToya Baldwin Clark. The fact that three of her students were selected for this prize is a testament to how she champions her students inside and outside of the classroom,” says Gonzalez, who credits Baldwin Clark for welcoming her to the law school and supporting her application for the prize. “I am so proud of Kaysie, Regina, and Galyn for winning this award,” Baldwin Clark says. “This honor is a testament to the work they have already begun during their law school careers – and to the impact they will make as UCLA Law alumnae.” FALL 2021 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE 39

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Five Professors Earn Faculty Chair Appointments

E. Tendayi Achiume

Kimberly Clausing

Cary Franklin

Máximo Langer

Jason Oh

Five UCLA Law professors, including leading scholars in human rights, tax law, law and sexuality, international law, and criminal justice, received appointments to faculty chairs in 2021. Three of the chairs were being filled for the first time. Faculty chairs acknowledge the distinction of the law school’s outstanding professors and are made possible by the incredible generosity of UCLA Law’s alumni and friends. UCLA Law has 70 full-time faculty members and 36 endowed chairs. Professor E. Tendayi Achiume was appointed as the inaugural holder of the Alicia Miñana Chair in Law. She is an authority in and driving force behind UCLA Law’s renowned work in international human rights, critical race studies, and public interest law. She has also served since 2017 as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. In 2020, she won UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award and the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching and this year was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum (see story, page 33). The term chair was established through a gift made by alumna Alicia Miñana ’87 and her husband, Rob Lovelace, who together made the founding donation to UCLA Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy. Professor Kimberly Clausing was appointed to the Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy. She joined UCLA Law in January from Reed College, where she was the Thormund A. Miller and Walter Mintz Professor of Economics. Her research studies the taxation of multinational firms, examining how government decisions and corporate behavior interplay in an increasingly global world economy. In February, Clausing was sworn-in as a deputy assistant secretary at the treasury department (see story, page 6). She is the inaugural holder of the Zolt Chair, which was established in 2019 with gifts from 34 UCLA Law alumni, friends, and faculty members in honor of Zolt’s distinguished career at the law school. Professor Cary Franklin joined UCLA Law in 2021 as the McDonald/Wright Chair of Law. A leading authority on civil rights and contemporary legal protections regarding sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and race, Franklin serves as the faculty director of the Williams Institute. She came to UCLA Law from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was the W.H. Francis, Jr. Professor of Law. Her cutting-edge scholarship has been cited widely, including in the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark Bostock v. Clayton County decision in 2020. The McDonald/Wright Chair was founded in 2007 with a gift from John McDonald and Rob Wright to support the Williams Institute’s research. Professor Máximo Langer was appointed to the David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Chair in Law. A member of the UCLA Law faculty since 2003, he is a leading authority on domestic, comparative and international criminal law and procedure, regularly lecturing on the subjects in Asia, Europe, Latin America and the United States. Langer directs the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice. He also serves as the president of the American Society of Comparative Law. Established in 1987 by UCLA Law alumnus, entrepreneur and philanthropist David Price ’60 and his then-wife Dallas, the Price Chair was most recently held by UCLA Law dean and Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law Jennifer L. Mnookin. Professor Jason Oh was appointed to the Lowell Milken Chair in Law as its inaugural holder. A member of the UCLA Law faculty since 2012 and the faculty co-director of UCLA Law’s Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy, he is an authority in tax policy and public finance. His record of scholarship and policymaking features multiple publications, media appearances, and testimonies before Congress. Oh also serves on the board of directors of the National Tax Association. The Lowell Milken Chair in Law was endowed in 2020 with a gift to support the career development of an emerging leader in the tax or business law areas.

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Faculty Members Share Expertise in Congressional Testimony Conveying the broad scope of UCLA Law’s leadership in legal scholarship and policy, several members of the law school’s faculty testified before the U.S. House of Representatives in 2021, in hearings that confronted issues at the heart of the current national discourse. In February, Professor E. Tendayi Achiume, a top authority on global human rights, testified in a virtual hearing, “H.R. 40: Exploring the Path to Reparative Justice in America,” held by the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. As an expert witness in the hearing on the bill H.R. 40, also known as the Commission to Study and Develop Reparation Proposals for African-Americans Act, Achiume offered an international human rights perspective to the issue of reparations for slavery. In March, the same subcommittee held a mostly virtual hearing on “Discrimination and Violence Against Asian Americans” that featured Distinguished Professor Hiroshi Motomura, one of the country’s most esteemed immigration law scholars and faculty co-director of UCLA Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy. The hearing was held amid a rise in violence against people of Asian descent in the United States and two days after six Asian women were among those killed

E. Tendayi Achiume

Hiroshi Motomura

in a series of mass shootings in Georgia. Motomura was one of 14 witnesses, including scholars, activists, and several members of the U.S. House and Senate. His testimony placed recent events in the context of history and immigration law. In May, Professor Jason Oh made his latest appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee. In a virtual hearing before the Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures, Oh participated in a panel titled “Funding Our Nation’s Priorities: Reforming the Tax Code’s Advantageous Treatment of the Wealthy.” He discussed the disparate impacts of the country’s current tax structure on wealthy versus lower-income Americans. Also in May, Lauren van Schilfgaarde ’12, director of the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians Tribal Legal Development Clinic, appeared in a virtual hearing of the U.S. House of Representatives Natural Resources Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States on “Tribal-Related Legislation – Including the RESPECT Act and the Stop Act.” She shared her expertise on these measures related to the preservation of tribal lands and tangible cultural heritage.

Jason Oh

Lauren van Schilfgaarde

Restatement Published The first ever Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonprofit Organizations, having been approved by the American Law Institute in May 2019, was published in August. The Restatement, for which Jill Horwitz, the David Sanders Professor in Law and Medicine, and the former Vice Dean for Faculty and Intellectual Life, served as reporter, promises to have a profound impact on the more than one million charities in the United States. Horwitz, who joined UCLA Law in 2012, is one of the nation’s leading scholars in the areas of health law and policy as well as nonprofits, and this year she has added a new title and responsibility at the law school, serving as the inaugural faculty director of the new Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits (see story, page 12). Jill Horwitz

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UCLA Law Faculty Books in Brief Michael Asimow and Paul Bergman Real to Reel: Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies Vandeplas (2021) Where does truth end and trickery begin? Can lawyers really pull rabbits out of hats with unexpected courtroom stunts? Did the trial process reveal the truth — or conceal it? How well do reel trials reﬂect real events? Asimow and Bergman analyze more than 200 courtroom movies, including To Kill a Mockingbird, My Cousin Vinny, 12 Angry Men, and The Trial of the Chicago 7. Asimow and Bergman are both emeriti professors of law at UCLA. Asimow also is Dean’s Executive Professor of Law at Santa Clara University School of Law.

Stuart Banner The Decline of Natural Law: How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped Oxford University Press (2021) Before the late 19th century, natural law played an important role in the American legal system. Lawyers routinely used it in their arguments and judges often relied upon it in their opinions. Today, by contrast, natural law plays virtually no role in the legal system. Banner looks into how and why this major shift in legal thought happened, and focuses, in particular, on the shift from the idea that law is something we ﬁnd to something we make. Banner is the Norman Abrams Distinguished Professor of Law and a legal historian who teaches property and the Supreme Court Clinic.

Ingrid Eagly (with George Fisher and Ronald Tyler) Criminal Practice: A Handbook for New Advocates Foundation Press (2021) Criminal practice demands of new advocates a daunting array of skills. They must be interviewers, investigators, counselors, researchers, scribes, planners, negotiators, ethicists, strategists, and courtroom protectors of truth, justice, and the oppressed. Mastering these many skills takes time, a luxury the system too rarely affords. This handbook looks beneath a lawyer’s public duties to the preparation and planning that lead to courtroom success. It also gives prosecutors and defenders a view of their counterparts’ roles, offering insights to build effectiveness and mutual respect. Eagly is a professor of law and faculty director of the Criminal Justice Program who teaches immigration law, criminal law, evidence, and public interest lawyering.

Russell Korobkin The Five Tool Negotiator Liveright (2021) From negotiating the price of a used car to closing a multimillion-dollar merger, Korobkin meticulously explains how to answer the following questions that arise in every negotiation: Should you make the first offer or let the other side go first? What makes some proposals seem more fair than others? How do you decide whether to accept an offer, reject it, or make a counteroffer? When should you propose an unusual agreement structure? What steps can you take to make a bluff believable? Korobkin is the Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law and Vice Dean for Graduate and Professional Education who teaches contracts, negotiation, and health care law.

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Frances Elisabeth Olsen (with Janet Giltrow and Donato Mancini) Legal Meanings: The Making and Use of Meaning in Legal Reasoning De Gruyter Mouton (2021) How does law make meaning? And how does meaning make law? Through clear methodology and substantial findings, Olsen and her co-authors expose the deficits of “literal” meaning and the difficulties in “ordinary” meaning, in international legal contexts and in more immediate social ones, as well as in courtrooms. With chapters focused on issues including constitutional language and experimental legal linguistics, the book also zeroes in on the challenges to national and international commitments to all speakers sharing a common meaning. Olsen is a professor of law who teaches feminist legal theory, dissidence and law, family law, and torts.

James Salzman (with Michael Heller) Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives Doubleday (2021) Who controls the space behind your airplane seat? Why is plagiarism wrong, but it’s okay to knock-oﬀ a recipe or a dress design? After a snowstorm, why does a chair in the street hold a parking space in Chicago but not in New York — where you lose the space and the chair? Surprisingly, there are just six simple stories that everyone uses to claim everything. With tales that are eye-opening, mind-bending, and sometimes infuriating, Mine! explains these puzzles and reveals the rules of ownership that secretly control our lives. Salzman is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law who teaches water law and natural resources law.

Seana Valentine Shiffrin Democratic Law Oxford University Press (2021) Based on Shiffrin’s 2017 Berkeley Tanner Lectures, this book presents an original thesis that democracy and democratic law have intrinsically valuable, interconnected communicative functions. Together, they allow us to fulfill our fundamental duties to convey to each other messages of equal respect by fashioning the sorts of public joint commitments to act that a sincere message of equal respect requires. Law and democracy are essential to each other: The aspirations of democracy cannot be realized except through a legal system, and, conversely, law can fulfill its primary function only in a democratic context. Shiffrin is a professor of philosophy and the Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice who teaches legal theory and academic legal writing.

Anna Spain Bradley Human Choice in International Law Cambridge University Press (2021) An exploration of human choice in international legal and political decision making, this book investigates the neurobiology of how people choose and the history of how personal choice has aﬀected decisions about international peace and security by charting important decision moments in international law. Spain Bradley analyzes the role that individuals serving as international judges or Security Council representatives, play in shaping decision outcomes and then applies insights from neuroscience to assert the importance of analyzing how cognitive processes such as empathy, emotion, and bias can inﬂuence such decisionmakers. Anna Spain Bradley is a professor of law and UCLA’s vice chancellor for equity, diversity and inclusion whose scholarship focuses on international law, human rights, and dispute resolution.

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FACULTY UPDATE KHALED M. ABOU EL FADL Omar and Azmeralda Alﬁ Professor of Law

Professor Abou El Fadl won the American Academy of Religion’s Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion in 2020. In April 2021, he delivered the Marjorie Hall Thulin Scholar of Religion and Contemporary Culture annual lecture, “Islam, Human Rights, and Contemporary World Politics,” at the University of Illinois.

 “Making Sense of the Business Roundtable’s Reversal on Corporate Purpose,” 46 Journal of Corporation Law 285 (2021).

 “Long-Term Bias and Director Primacy,” 2020 Columbia Business Law Review 801 (2020).

ASLI Ü. BÂLI

STUART BANNER Norman Abrams Distinguished Professor of Law

Publications

 The Decline of Natural Law: How American Lawyers Once Used Natural Law and Why They Stopped, Oxford University Press (2021). PAUL BERGMAN

Professor of Law

Professor of Law Emeritus

Publications

E. TENDAYI ACHIUME

Professor Bâli was appointed to be a nonresident fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and chaired the advisory committee of Human Rights Watch’s Middle East and North Africa Division.

Professor of Law Alicia Miñana Chair in Law

Publications

 “Women and Hadith,” UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law (forthcoming 2021).

Professor Achiume testiﬁed in February in a virtual hearing regarding slavery reparations, “H.R. 40: Exploring the Path to Reparative Justice in America,” before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties. In March, she was named a named a 2021 World Economic Forum Young Global Leader. Publications

 “Race and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through, and Across National Borders,” with E. Tendayi Achiume, 67 UCLA Law Review 1386 (2021).

 “International Law, Use of Force, and the New Middle East,” in The Contemporary Middle East in an Age of Upheaval, edited by James L. Gelvin, Stanford University Press (2021).

 “Transnational Racial (In)Justice In Liberal Democratic Empire,” 134 Harvard Law Review Forum 378 (2021).

 “Critical Race Theory Meets Third World Approaches to International Law,” with Devon W. Carbado, 67 UCLA Law Review 1462 (2021).

 “Race and Empire: Legal Theory Within, Through, and Across National Borders,” with Asli Ü. Bâli, 67 UCLA Law Review 1386 (2021).

 STEPHEN M. BAINBRIDGE William D. Warren Distinguished Professor of Law

Publications

 “Insider Trading Compliance Programs,” in The Cambridge Handbook of Compliance, edited by Benjamin van Rooij and D. Daniel Sokol, Cambridge University Press (2021). 44 UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | FALL 2021

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Real to Reel: Truth and Trickery in Courtroom Movies, with Michael Asimow, Vandeplas (2021).

 The Criminal Law Handbook, with Sara J. Berman, Sixteenth Edition, Nolo (2021).

Criminal Law: A Desk Reference, Fifth Edition, Nolo (2020).

JUSTIN BERNSTEIN Director, A. Barry Cappello Program in Trial Advocacy Lecturer in Law

Justin Bernstein won the American Mock Trial Association’s Neal Smith Award and the Texas Young Lawyers Association’s President’s Award. MARIO BIAGIOLI

Paul Hastings Professor of Business Law

Distinguished Professor of Law and Communication

Professor Bank received the Journal of Legal

Publications

Aspects of Sport Best Paper Award for his

 “Patenting Personalized Medicine:

article “FIFA, Forced Arbitration, and the U.S. Soccer Lawsuits.”

Molecules, Information, and the Body,” with Alain Pottage, 36 Osiris 221 (2021).

Publications

 Selected Sections Federal Income Tax Code and Regulations, 2021-2022, with Kirk J. Stark, Foundation Press (2021).

 Selected Sections Corporate and Partnership Income Tax Code and Regulations, 2021-2022, with Kirk J. Stark, Foundation Press (2021).

 “The False Dichotomy in Name, Image, and Likeness Legislation,” Harvard Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law (2020).

WILLIAM BOYD Michael J. Klein Chair in Law Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Professor Boyd was elected co-chair of the European Law Institute’s Environmental Law Special Interest Group in May. Publications

 “The Poverty of Theory: Public Problems, Instrument Choice, and the Climate Emergency,” 46 Columbia Journal of Environmental Law 399 (2021).

Abou El Fadl Earns Top Honor From American Academy of Religion UCLA Law Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl received the American Academy of Religion’s Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion in December 2020. In presenting Abou El Fadl with its highest award, the eminent organization recognized his “extraordinary, relevant, broad-reaching contributions to the public understanding of religion” and his “influences inside and outside of the academy.” Abou El Fadl is the Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law at UCLA Law, where he has served on the faculty since 1998. He is an internationally renowned authority on Shari’ah, Islamic law and Islam, and a prominent scholar in human rights. The recipient of many honors for his trailblazing work in the field, he is the founder of the Institute of Advanced Usuli Studies (The Usuli Institute), a nonprofit educational institute dedicated to ethics, beauty, and critical thinking in the Islamic intellectual tradition. A prolific scholar, Abou El Fadl has published scores of articles, chapters and books that present a scholarly approach to Islam from a Khaled Abou El Fadl moral point of view, writing extensively on universal themes of humanity, morality, human rights, justice, and mercy. He is well known for his writings on beauty as a core moral value of Islam. At UCLA Law, he teaches International Human Rights; Islamic Jurisprudence; Political Asylum and Refugee Law; the Trafficking of Human Beings: Law and Policy; Political Crimes and Legal Systems; and Muslims, Race and Law. Founded in 1909, the AAR is the world’s largest society dedicated to the scholarly study of religion, with a mission “to foster excellence in the academic study of religion and enhance the public understanding of religion” and a commitment “to promoting academic excellence, professional responsibility, free inquiry, critical examination, diversity, inclusion, respect, and transparency within the academic study of religion and in the work of the AAR itself.”

Review of Pollution, Politics, and Power: The Struggle for Sustainable Electricity by Thomas O. McGarity, 62 Technology & Culture 265 (2021).

DEVON W. CARBADO The Honorable Harry Pregerson Professor of Law

Professor Carbado was awarded the 202021 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award

KIMBERLY CLAUSING Eric M. Zolt Chair in Tax Law and Policy

elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in April.

Professor Clausing joined the U.S. Department of the Treasury as deputy assistant secretary for tax analysis, leading the Oﬃce of Tax Policy, in February.

SCOTT L. CUMMINGS

Publications

 “Five Lessons on Proﬁt Shifting from the U.S. Country by Country Data,” 169 Tax Notes Federal 925 (2020).

for Career Commitment to Diversity by the UCLA Academic Senate. Publications

 “Critical Race Theory Meets Third World Approaches to International Law,” with E. Tendayi Achiume, 67 UCLA Law Review 1462 (2021).

 “Stop-And-Strip Violence: The Doctrinal Migrations of Reasonable Suspicion,” 55 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 467 (2020).

Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics Professor of Law

Professor Cummings was named a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences. Publications

 “Making Public Interest Lawyers in BETH A. COLGAN Vice Dean of Faculty & Intellectual Life Professor of Law

Vice Dean Colgan moderated a debate between candidates for Los Angeles County District Attorney in October 2020.

a Time of Crisis: An Evidence Based Approach,” with Richard L. Abel and Catherine Albiston, 34 Georgetown Journal of Legal Ethics (2021).  An Equal Place: Lawyers in the Struggle for Los Angeles, Oxford University Press (2021).

Publications

 “Revisiting Hate Crimes Enhancements in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration,” with Shirin Sinnar, 95 N.Y.U. Law Review Online 149 (2020).

JOSHUA FOA DIENSTAG Professor of Law Shapiro Family Chair Professor of Modern Political Theory

Publications ANN E. CARLSON

KIMBERLÉ W. CRENSHAW

Shirley Shapiro Professor of Environmental Law Faculty Co-Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment

Distinguished Professor of Law Promise Institute Chair in Human Rights

Professor Carlson joined the National Highway Traﬃc Safety Administration as chief counsel in January. She was elected as a fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers in August.

Professor Crenshaw won the Association of American Law Schools’ 2021 Triennial Award for Lifetime Service to Legal Education and the Legal Profession, and she was honored with the 2021 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Lifetime Achievement Award from the AALS Section on Women in Legal Education. She was

 “Dignity, Diﬀerence, and the Representation of Nature,” 49 Political Theory 613 (2020).

SHARON DOLOVICH Professor of Law Faculty Director, UCLA Prison Law & Policy Program

Professor Dolovich won the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award in March. She

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continued her service as the director of the UCLA Law COVID-19 Behind Bars Data Project. Publications

 “Willingness to Receive a COVID-19 Vaccination Among Incarcerated or Detained Persons in Correctional and Detention Facilities — Four States, September–December 2020,” with Marc F. Stern, Alexandra M. Piasecki, Lara B. Strick, Poornima Rajeshwar, Erika Tyagi, Priti R. Patel, Rena Fukunaga, and Nathan W. Furukawa, 70 Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 473 (2021).

 “COVID-19 Cases Among Employees of U.S. Federal and State Prisons,” with Julie A. Ward, Kalind Parish, Grace DiLaura, and Brendan Saloner, 60 American Journal of Preventive Medicine 840 (2021).

 “Learning from Deported Americans,” review of Deported Americans: Life After Deportation to Mexico by Beth C. Caldwell, 50 Southwestern Law Review 333 (2021)

 “Access to Justice for Immigrants: A Lecture Presented in Memory of Breanna Boss,” 92 University of Chicago Law Review Forum 1 (2021).

 “Measuring In Absentia Removal in Immigration Court,” with Steven Shafer, 168 University of Pennsylvania Law Review 817 (2020).

(Nov. 16, 2020).

INGRID EAGLY Professor of Law Faculty Director, Criminal Justice Program

Publications

Study of Prison-Based Immigration Courts in the United States,” with Steven Shafer, 54 Law & Society Review 788 (2020).

BLAKE EMERSON Assistant Professor of Law

Professor Emerson earned the Emerging Scholar Award from the Association of American Law Schools' Section on Administrative Law. Publications

 “The Departmental Structure of

Criminal Practice: A Handbook for New Advocates, with George Fisher and Ronald Tyler, Foundation Press (2021).

A Civic Governance Agenda to Promote Democratic Equality and Guard Against Creeping Authoritarianism,” with Jon D. Michaels, 68 UCLA Law Review Discourse 418 (2021).

MEIRAV FURTH-MATZKIN Assistant Professor of Law

Publications

 "The Distributive Impacts of NudnikBased Activism," 74 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 469 (2021).

 “The Institutional Hearing Program: A

 “Mass Incarceration, Meet COVID-19,” University of Chicago Law Review Online

 “Abandoning Presidential Administration:

Executive Power: Subordinate Checks from Madison to Mueller,” 38 Yale Journal on Regulation 90 (2021).

STEPHEN GARDBAUM Stephen Yeazell Endowed Chair in Law Faculty Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights

Professor Gardbaum delivered the Constitution Day Lecture, “The CounterPlaybook: Resisting the Populist Assault on Separation of Powers,” at Drake University in September 2020. Publications

 “The Structure of a Free Speech Right,” in The Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech, edited by Adrienne Stone and Frederick Schauer, Oxford University Press (2021).

 “Comparative Political Process Theory: A Rejoinder,” 18 International Journal of Constitutional Law 1503 (2020).

Salzman Gets Rave Reviews for New Book on 'The Hidden Rules of Ownership' UCLA School of Law professor James Salzman’s new book, Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives (Doubleday), reveals the hidden rules that govern who owns what — from the reclining space behind airline seats to HBO passwords for streaming shows. Salzman is the Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law at UCLA Law, a faculty member of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and one of the country’s leading scholars of environmental law. His co-author is Michael Heller, the Lawrence A. Wien Professor of Real Estate Law at Columbia Law School. The book received glowing reviews in The New York Times and The New Yorker, among other national publications, a level of attenJames Salzman tion all too rare for a book by a law professor. Earlier this year, we asked Salzman to explain a core thesis of book through one of the most common and vexing ownership questions: Who owns the space behind your airplane seat? “Airlines are masters in deliberately creating ambiguity in ownership,” says Salzman. “Think about the last time you flew. Did you lean back, or did someone lean their seat into your knees or scrunch your laptop? You may not think of this as an ownership conflict but, in fact, it’s a battle over control of the reclining wedge of space behind the seat. Some passengers claim the space in front of their seat for their knees and laptop. No trespassing. Others claim the space because the recline button is attached to their seat and so is the reclining wedge behind it. Here, mine versus mine is really the stories of possession versus attachment. Airlines are selling the same space twice, once for the passenger who wants to use their tray table and again for the one who wants to recline. Passengers get mad at each other, but they should be mad at the airlines for pushing the ownership conflict onto passengers to work out themselves.” So, who does own that seat space? For the answer, you’ll have to read “Mine!”

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 “Comparative Political Process Theory,” 18 International Journal of Constitutional Law 1429 (2020).

 “The Counter-Playbook: Resisting the Populist Assault on Separation of Powers,” 59 Columbia Journal of Transnational Law 1 (2020).

Publications

Restatement of the Law, Charitable Nonproﬁt Organizations, reporter with Marion R. Fremont-Smith (reporter) and Nancy A. Mclaughlin (associate reporter), American Law Institute (2021).

LYNN M. LOPUCKI Security Paciﬁc Bank Distinguished Professor of Law

Publications

Business Associations: 2021 Statutory Supplement, with Douglas Irion, KDP (2021).

 Strategies for Creditors in Bankruptcy Proceedings, with Christopher R. Mirick and

MARK GREENBERG

SUNG HUI KIM

Christopher G. Bradley, Seventh Edition,

Michael H. Schill Endowed Chair in Law and Professor of Philosophy

Professor of Law

Wolters Kluwer (2020).

Publications

 “Legal Interpretation and Natural Law,” 89 Fordham Law Review 109 (2020).

Publications

 “Do Lawyers Make Good Gatekeepers?,” in The Cambridge Handbook of

 “The Systems Approach to Teaching Business Associations,” with Andrew Verstein, 2020 Michigan State Law Review 703 (2020).

Investor Protection, edited by Arthur Laby, Cambridge University Press LAURA E. GÓMEZ

(forthcoming 2021).

Professor of Law Rachel F. Moran Endowed Chair in Law

Professor Gómez earned the 2021 Outstanding Scholar Award from the Fellows of the American Bar Foundation.

RUSSELL KOROBKIN Vice Dean for Graduate and Professional Education Richard C. Maxwell Professor of Law

Publications

 “Capítulo 2: Donde Los Mexicanos Encajan En El Nuevo Orden Racial,” 37 ChicanxLatinx Law Review 109 (2020).

Publications

 The Five Tool Negotiator: The Complete

SEAN B. HECHT

Kate Mackintosh was appointed to the independent expert panel for the legal deﬁnition of ecocide, which launched the deﬁnition in June. She was also appointed to the Council of Advisers on the Application of the Rome Statute to Cyberwarfare.

Guide to Bargaining Success, Liveright (2021).

Co-Executive Director, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment Evan Frankel Professor of Policy and Practice Co-Director, UCLA Law Environmental Law Clinic

KATE MACKINTOSH Executive Director, Promise Institute for Human Rights

 “Behavioral Ethics, Deception, and Legal Negotiation,” 20 Nevada Law Journal 1209 (2020).

TIMOTHY MALLOY Professor of Law Faculty Director, UCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program Frank G. Wells Endowed Chair in Environmental Law

JILL R. HORWITZ

Publications

David Sanders Professorship in Law and Medicine Faculty Director, Program on Philanthropy and Nonproﬁts

Professor Malloy won the UCLA Law’s 2020 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. He was reappointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Board of Scientiﬁc Counselors, Chemical Safety for Sustainability & Health and Environmental Risk Assessment Subcommittee.

 “Plea Bargaining, Conviction Without Trial,

Publications

Sean Hecht serves as the chair of the California Lawyers Association’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee.

MÁXIMO LANGER David G. Price and Dallas P. Price Professor of Law Director of the UCLA Transnational Program on Criminal Justice

Professor Horwitz was appointed to the executive committee of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Nonproﬁt and Philanthropy Law and to the board of advisors of the National Center on Philanthropy and the Law at NYU School of Law. She served as an advisor on the Restatement of the Law Third, Torts.

and the Global Administratization of Criminal Convictions,” 4 Annual Review of Criminology 377 (2021).

 “Penal Abolitionism and Criminal Law Minimalism: Here and There, Now and Then,” Responding to Abolition Constitutionalism by Dorothy E. Roberts, 134 Harvard Law Review Forum 42 (2020).

 “Evaluating the Application of Decision Analysis Methods in Simulated Alternatives Assessment Case Studies: Potential Beneﬁts and Challenges of Using MCDA,” with Christian Beaudrie, Charles J Corbett, Thomas A Lewandowski, and Xiaoying Zhou, 17 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 27 (2020).

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 “QSAR Use in REACH Analyses of Alternatives to Predict Human Health and Environmental Toxicity of Alternative Chemical Substances,” with Kazue Chinen, 16 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 745 (2020).

JENNIFER L. MNOOKIN

FRANCES ELISABETH OLSEN

Dean Ralph and Shirley Shapiro Professor of Law Faculty Co-Director, PULSE @ UCLA Law (Program on Understanding Law, Science & Evidence)

Professor of Law

Dean Mnookin joined the board of directors of the UCLA Technology Development Group in the fall of 2020.

Publications

Legal Meanings: The Making and Use of Meaning in Legal Reasoning, with Janet Giltrow and Donato Mancini, De Gruyter Mouton (2021).

Publications DANIEL M. MAYEDA Associate Director, Documentary Film Legal Clinic

Daniel Mayeda was elected co-chair of the Los Angeles County Citizens Redistricting Commission in February.

Modern Scientiﬁc Evidence: The Law and Science of Expert Testimony, with David L. Faigman, Edward K. Cheng, Erin E. Murphy, Joseph Sanders and Christopher Slobogin, 2020-21 edition, Thomson West (2020).

 The New Wigmore, A Treatise on Evidence: JON D. MICHAELS Professor of Law

Publications

Expert Evidence, with David H. Kaye, David E. Bernstein, Andrew Guthrie Ferguson, and Maggie Wittlin, Third Edition, Wolters Kluwer (2020).

JAMES PARK Professor of Law

Professor Park was made chair-elect of the Association of American Law Schools’ Section on Business Associations. Publications

 “Los Angeles Law Firms Before and After Recessions,” Lowell Milken Institute Report, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law (2021).

 “Abandoning Presidential Administration: A Civic Governance Agenda to Promote Democratic Equality and Guard Against Creeping Authoritarianism,” with Blake Emerson, 68 UCLA Law Review Discourse 418 (2021).

HIROSHI MOTOMURA Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy

Professor Motomura won the UCLA Law’s 2021 Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. In March, he testiﬁed in a mostly virtual hearing, “Discrimination and Violence Against Asian Americans,” before the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights,

NEIL W. NETANEL

SUNITA PATEL

Professor of Law Pete Kameron Professor of Law

Assistant Professor of Law Faculty Director, UCLA Veterans Legal Clinic

Professor Netanel’s 2011 article “Making Sense of Fair Use,” 15 Lewis & Clark Law Review 715, was quoted in Justice Stephen Breyer’s majority opinion in Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., which the U.S. Supreme Court decided in April. Publications

NINA RABIN

 “Mandating Digital Platform Support for

Director, Immigrant Family Legal Clinic

Quality Journalism,” 34 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 473 (2021).

 “Transplanting Fair Use Across the Globe: A Case Study Testing the Credibility of U.S. Opposition,” with Niva Elkin-Koren, 72 Hastings Law Journal 1121 (2021).

and Civil Liberties. Publications

 “Making Immigration Law,” review of The President and Immigration Law by Adam B. Cox and Cristina M. Rodríguez, 134 Harvard Law Review 2794 (2021).

Immigration and Citizenship: Process and Policy, with T. Alexander Aleinikoﬀ, David A. Martin, Maryellen Fullerton, Juliet P. Stumpf, and Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Ninth Edition, West (2021).

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Professor Patel was awarded the 2020-21 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Award for Community Service and Praxis by the UCLA Academic Senate.

JASON OH Professor of Law Lowell Milken Chair in Law Faculty Co-Director, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy

Professor Oh testiﬁed before the U.S. House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee’s Subcommittee on Select Revenue Measures in May, participating in the panel “Funding Our Nation’s Priorities: Reforming the Tax Code’s Advantageous Treatment of the Wealthy.”

Publications

 “Legal Limbo as Subordination: Immigrants, Caste, and the Precarity of Liminal Status in the Trump Era," 35 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 567 (2021).

KAL RAUSTIALA Promise Institute Chair in Comparative and International Law Director, UCLA Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations

Publications

 “Faster Fashion: The Piracy Paradox and its Perils,” with Christopher Jon Sprigman, 39 Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal (2021).

 “The Rarity of Rewarding,” with Andrew Guzman, 115 AJIL Unbound 221 (2021).

Winkler Named Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar UCLA Law Professor Adam Winkler was named a 2021-22 visiting scholar by Phi Beta Kappa. He is one of 13 people representing a wide array of ﬁelds of academic expertise who were selected as visiting scholars this year. Founded in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is one of the nation’s oldest and most prestigious academic honor societies. The Visiting Scholar Program has since 1956 “oﬀered undergraduates the opportunity to spend time with some of America’s most distinguished scholars.” Each year, visiting scholars go to more than 100 colleges and universities where they spend two days “taking full part in the academic life of the institution. They meet informally with students and faculty members, participate in classroom discussions and seminars, and give a public lecture open to the academic community and the general public.” Adam Winkler

A member of the UCLA Law faculty since 2002, Winkler is the Michael J. Connell Professor of Law and consistently ranks as one of the legal scholars who are most cited by courts across the country. An expert in constitutional law, particularly the Second Amendment, he

is a frequent speaker and writer in the media and legal academy on gun rights, the Supreme Court, and more. At UCLA Law, he teaches Constitutional Law, Gun Rights, Professional Responsibility, and the Supreme Court Simulation course, which hosted U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in February (see story, page 8). Winkler’s book We the Corporations: How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights (Liveright/W.W. Norton, 2018), was a finalist for the National Book Award for nonfiction, the National Book Critics Circle nonfiction award, the American Bar Association’s Silver Gavel Award, and the California Book Award, and it won the Scribes Book Award. He also wrote Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America (W.W. Norton, 2011), which was released to wide acclaim.

 “NGOs in International Treatymaking,” in The Oxford Guide to Treaties, Second Edition, edited by Duncan Hollis, Oxford University Press (2020).

JAMES SALZMAN Donald Bren Distinguished Professor of Environmental Law

Professor of Law Director, MA/JD Joint Degree Program in Law and American Indian Studies Director, Native Nations Law and Policy Center

Professor Riley served as a visiting professor at the Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government in January 2021.

the Way Down,” 109 Georgetown Law Journal 305 (2020).

Publications

Mine! How the Hidden Rules of Ownership ANGELA R. RILEY

 “Qualiﬁed Immunity and Federalism All

Control Our Lives, with Michael Heller, Doubleday (2021).

RICHARD H. SANDER Jesse Dukeminier Professorship in Law Publications

 “Fifteen Questions About Prop. 16 and Prop. 209,” University of Chicago Law Review Online (2020).

SEANA VALENTINE SHIFFRIN Professor of Philosophy Pete Kameron Professor of Law and Social Justice

Professor Shiﬀrin serves as the president of the American Philosophical Association’s Paciﬁc Division. Publications

Democratic Law, Oxford University Press (2021).

Publications

 “Joint Dedication to Professor Emeritus Frank Pommersheim & Justice Steven L. Zinter,” 65 South Dakota Law Review 1 (2020).

MICHAEL T. ROBERTS Executive Director, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy, Professor from Practice

Michael Roberts served as the board secretary of Feed the Truth and as a member of the planning committee of the Food and Drug Law Institute’s Food Advertising, Labeling, and Litigation Conference.

JOANNA C. SCHWARTZ

KIRK J. STARK

Professor of Law

Barrall Family Professor of Tax Law and Policy

Publications

New Federalism and Civil Rights

 “Wayfair in Constitutional Perspective:

Enforcement,” with Alexander Reinert and James E. Pfander, 116 Northwestern University Law Review 737 (2021).

 “Going Rogue: The Supreme Court’s Newfound Hostility to Policy-Based Bivens Claims,” with Alexander Reinert and James E. Pfander, 96 Notre Dame Law Review 1835 (2021).

 “Qualiﬁed Immunity’s Boldest Lie,” 88 University of Chicago Law Review 605 (2021).

Who Sets the Ground Rules of US Fiscal Federalism?,” 74 National Tax Journal 221 (2021).

 Selected Sections Federal Income Tax Code and Regulations, 2021-2022, with Steven A. Bank, Foundation Press (2021).

 Selected Sections Corporate and Partnership Income Tax Code and Regulations, 2021-2022, with Steven A. Bank, Foundation Press (2021).

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FACULTY UPDATE :: PUBLICATIONS AND HONORS

RICHARD H. STEINBERG

JONATHAN D. VARAT

Publications

Professor of Law Jonathan D. Varat Endowed Chair in Law Professor of Political Science

Professor of Law Emeritus Dean Emeritus

 “Pop-Ups and the Pandemic: Is That

Publications

Classics in International Trade Law, H2O (2021).

Publications

Constitutional Law: Cases and Materials, with Vikram D. Amar and Evan H. Caminker, Sixteenth Edition, Foundation Press (2021).

KATHERINE STONE

Delicious ‘Pop-Up’ Restaurant Legal?,” 17 SciTech Lawyer (2021).

NOAH D. ZATZ Professor of Law Faculty Director, Critical Race Studies program

Publications

Professor of Law Faculty Co-Director, Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy

 Arbitration Law, with Alexander J.S.

Publications

Publications  “Better Than Jail: Social Policy in the Shadow of Racialized Mass Incarceration,” 1 Journal of Law and Political Economy 212 (2021).

 “Mixed Motives Insider Trading,” 106 Iowa

 “‘Any Alternative Is Great If I’m

Distinguished Arjay and Frances Fearing Miller Professor Emerita

Colvin and Richard A. Bales, Fourth Edition, Foundation Press, (2021).

ANDREW VERSTEIN

Law Review 1253 (2021).

 “The Systems Approach to Teaching REBECCA STONE Professor of Law

Publications

Business Associations,” with Lynn LoPucki, 2020 Michigan State Law Review 703 (2020).

 “The Circumstances of Civil Recourse,” 40 Law and Philosophy (2021).

EUGENE VOLOKH Gary T. Schwartz Distinguished Professor of Law

XIYIN TANG Assistant Professor of Law

Publications

 “Can Copyright Holders Do Harm to Their Own Works? A Reverse Theory of Fair Use Market Harm,” 54 UC Davis Law Review 1245 (2021).

Professor Volokh’s blog post "Might Federal Preemption of Speech-Protective State Laws Violate the First Amendment?" was cited in Justice Clarence Thomas's concurring opinion in Biden v. Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, which the U.S. Supreme Court decided in April. Publications

 “What Cheap Speech Has Done: (Greater) SHEROD THAXTON Professor of Law Faculty Director, David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy

Publications

 “Shrinking the Accountability Deﬁcit in Capital Charging,” in The Oxford Handbook of Prosecutors and Prosecution, edited by Ronald F. Wright, Kay L. Levine, and Russell M. Gold, Oxford University Press (2021).

 “How Not to Lie About Aﬃrmative Action,” 67 UCLA Law Review 834 (2020).

Equality and Its Discontents,” 54 UC Davis Law Review 2303 (2021).

 “The New Taboo: Quoting Epithets in the Classroom and Beyond,” with Randall Kennedy, 49 Capital University Law Review 1 (2021).

ADAM WINKLER Connell Professor of Law

Professor Winkler was named a 2021-22 visiting scholar by Phi Beta Kappa in February.

 “Metrics of Mayhem: Quantifying Capriciousness in Capital Cases,” in The Eighth Amendment and Its Future in a New Age of Punishment, edited by Meghan J. Ryan and William W. Berry III, Cambridge University Press (2020).

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Incarcerated:’ A Case Study of CourtOrdered Community Service in Los Angeles County,” with Melanie Sonsteng-Person, Lucero Herrera, and Tia Koonse, 48 Criminal Justice and Behavior 32 (2021).

DIANA R. H. WINTERS Deputy Director, Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy

Diana Winters serves on the board of trustees of the Academy of Food Law and Policy.

ERIC M. ZOLT Michael H. Schill Distinguished Professor of Law

Professor Zolt was awarded a two-year appointment as extraordinary professor at the African Tax Institute at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. Publications

 “Cross-Border Philanthropy: A U.S. Perspective,” The Routledge Handbook of Taxation and Philanthropy, edited by Henry Peter and Giedre Lideikyte-Huber, Routledge (forthcoming 2021).

Motomura and Malloy Win Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching Motomura thanked his family and students for shaping how he teaches: Good teaching is “not really about what I say or do, but instead, it’s about what my students say or do.” He focused his acceptance lecture on stories from his personal and professional experience that oﬀer keys to making positive contributions in education, the law, and life. These included co-founding of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network and his attendance at an annual music camp where he hones his skills as an Hiroshi Motomura

Timothy Malloy

Distinguished Professor Hiroshi Motomura and Professor Timothy Malloy were presented with the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching at a virtual ceremony in April. They are the 43rd and 44th recipients of UCLA Law’s highest honor for distinction in the classroom. The award, founded in 1979 by famed legal publisher William Rutter, is presented annually to legal educators at ﬁve top California law schools. Rutter’s son Paul Rutter ’78, a UCLA Law alumnus who is a member of law school’s board of advisors and practices real estate law at Cozen O’Connor, delivered welcome remarks along with UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. Mnookin commended both professors on the remarkable connections that they make with their students, who value them as teachers, mentors, and collaborators – educators whom students consistently credit with their future successes as practicing attorneys. Motomura, the Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law, won the 2021 Rutter Award. A nationally renowned immigration law expert, he serves as the faculty co-director of UCLA Law’s Center for Immigration Law and Policy and received a 2018 Guggenheim fellowship, among numerous accomplishments and accolades for his impactful scholarship and advocacy. A member of the UCLA Law faculty since 2007, Motomura’s courses include immigration law and the Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic.

accomplished guitarist – and has learned that students should be inspired to take chances and embrace the vital skill of listening. “The essence of teaching is helping your students be their best,” he said. “The best things that teachers enable are often things they can’t predict.” Malloy won the 2020 Rutter Award, and his ceremony was delayed a year due to the pandemic. He holds the Frank G. Wells Endowed Chair in Environmental Law and serves as the faculty director of the UCLA Sustainable Technology and Policy Program. He is an authority in environmental law, regulatory policy, chemical and nanotechnology policy, and organizational theory and decision analysis. A member of the UCLA Law faculty since 1998, Malloy teaches contracts and courses on regulation and the Environmental Aspects of Business Transactions. “I feel like I’m just here representing all the terriﬁc teachers that inhabit the halls here at the law school,” he said. “It could have been anybody, there are so many wonderful professors at this school.” Malloy presented a slideshow in which he showed photographs of and discussed the major law professors and colleagues who had the greatest impact on his career and classroom work. He also credited his children – a high school teacher and a law student – for helping him reﬁne his skills and focus as a teacher. “We’re all educators here, and we’re all learning about learning,” he said, “and I am so thankful to have that opportunity.” FALL 2021 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE 51

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FACULTY :: NEW TENURETRACK FACULTY JOSEPH FISHKIN Professor of Law

Joseph Fishkin, an expert in election law, constitutional law, and employment discrimination law, joins UCLA Law from the University of Texas School of Law, where he was the Marrs McLean Professor in Law. He also served as a visiting professor at Yale Law School. At UCLA Law, he teaches Election Law, Employment Discrimination Law, a seminar on Direct Democracy, and a Law Through Scholarship course on Law and Economic Inequality. A political theorist and legal scholar who works on questions at the intersection of law, distributive justice, and political economy, Fishkin wrote the award-winning book Bottlenecks: A New Theory of Equal Opportunity (Oxford University Press, 2014) and, with former UCLA Law professor William Forbath, the forthcoming book The Anti-Oligarchy Constitution: Reconstructing the Economic Foundations of American Democracy (Harvard University Press, 2022). Fishkin’s other writing has appeared in the Columbia Law Review, the Supreme Court Review, and the Yale Law Journal. He received a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University, D. Phil. in politics from the University of Oxford, where he was a Fulbright Scholar, and J.D. from Yale Law School. After law school, he clerked for Chief Justice Margaret H. Marshall of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts and was a Ruebhausen Fellow at Yale Law School.

CARY FRANKLIN McDonald/Wright Chair in Law Faculty Director, Williams Institute

Cary Franklin is a leading authority on civil rights and contemporary legal protections regarding sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, and race. She joins UCLA Law from the University of Texas School of Law, where she was the W.H. Francis, Jr. Professor of Law. She also served as the Florence Rogatz Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. At UCLA Law, she is the faculty director of the Williams Institute and teaches Reproductive Rights and Justice and Law, Gender, and Sexuality. Franklin’s cutting-edge scholarship has been widely published and cited by scholars and courts. The U.S. Supreme Court cited her 2012 Harvard Law Review article, “Inventing the ‘Traditional Concept’ of Sex Discrimination,” in its landmark 2020 Bostock decision. Her work has also appeared in the Michigan Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the NYU Law Review, and the Yale Law Journal. 52 UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | FALL 2021

She earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Yale University, J.D. from Yale Law School, where she served as an articles editor of the Yale Law Journal, and D.Phil. in English from the University of Oxford, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. She clerked for Sonia Sotomayor, then of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows and a Ribicoﬀ Fellow at Yale Law School.

MARK MCKENNA Professor of Law Faculty Co-Director, Ziﬀren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law

Mark McKenna, an esteemed scholar in intellectual property and technology law, joins UCLA Law from Notre Dame Law School, where he taught for more than a decade, served as the John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law, and was the founding director of the Notre Dame Technology Ethics Center. At UCLA Law, he serves as a faculty co-director of the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law and teaches torts, among other courses. McKenna’s core work has been in trademark law, recently focusing on design and questions relating to the boundaries of various forms of intellectual property. He is also engaged in projects relating to the governance of technology, including one that centers “on the meaning of autonomy in a world of predictive algorithms.” McKenna is the author of more than 40 articles and book chapters, as well as the casebooks The Law of Design: Design Patent, Trademark & Copyright and The Law of Intellectual Property. He earned a B.A., magna cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame and J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law, where current UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin was his evidence professor. He practiced intellectual property law with the Chicago firm Pattishall, McAuliffe, Newbury, Hilliard & Geraldson.

ANNA SPAIN BRADLEY Professor of Law Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Anna Spain Bradley, a highly regarded scholar of international law, human rights, dispute resolution, and racism, who has served since 2020 as UCLA’s vice chancellor for equity, diversity, and inclusion, joined the UCLA Law faculty in early 2021 as a professor of law. She came to UCLA from the University of Colorado Boulder, where she was a law professor and the assistant vice provost for faculty development and diversity.

Her research focuses on global understandings of racism and human rights, matters on which she serves as a legal expert to the United Nations. An award-winning author of numerous scholarly works in the ﬁeld, Spain Bradley’s books include Human Choice in International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2021) and Global Racism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming) and the casebook International Dispute Resolution. She previously practiced international law at the U.S. Department of State and worked on climate policy at the Environmental Protection Agency and on international trade agreements at the Oﬃce of the United States Trade Representative. Spain Bradley earned a B.A. from Denison University and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where she served as an executive editor of the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She clerked for Judge Raymond Finch of the U.S. District Court of the Virgin Islands.

LINDSAY F. WILEY Professor of Law

Lindsay F. Wiley, a leader in health law and policy, joins the UCLA Law faculty as a professor of law in January 2022. Wiley comes from American University Washington College of Law, where she has served on the faculty for more than a decade and directs the Health Law and Policy Program. Wiley’s scholarship centers on health care access and public health within the United States and globally. She serves as the United States Rapporteur for the Lex-Atlas: Covid-19 Project, and she co-chairs the Health Justice: Engaging Critical Perspectives in Health Law and Policy Initiative. A widely published author and speaker, she has co-written the books Public Health Law: Power, Duty, Restraint (University of California Press, 2016), Public Health Law and Ethics: A Reader (University of California Press, 2018), and the forthcoming Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions (Cambridge University Press, 2022). She is a past president of the American Society for Law, Medicine and Ethics and a former member of the National Conference of Lawyers and Scientists. Wiley earned her bachelor’s degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard College and her law degree, magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. She also received a master of public health degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

FACULTY :: NEW PROFESSOR FROM PRACTICE AHILAN ARULANANTHAM Professor from Practice Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy

Ahilan T. Arulanantham joins UCLA Law as a faculty co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy. A preeminent leader in the ﬁeld, he comes from the ACLU of Southern California, where he ran immigrants’ rights and national security advocacy and litigation since 2004. He has successfully litigated several immigrants’ rights cases, including three arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, most recently in FBI v. Fazaga, on behalf of Americans of the Muslim faith who were targeted by the federal government for surveillance because of their religion. His numerous accolades include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (“genius grant”) in 2016. He previously worked as an assistant federal public defender in El Paso, Texas, and clerked on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He earned a B.A., summa cum laude, from Georgetown University, a B.A. as a Marshall Scholar at the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

FACULTY :: CENTER AND PROGRAM LEADERSHIP TALIA INLENDER Deputy Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy

Talia Inlender joins UCLA Law as deputy director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy. One of the nation’s leading immigration lawyers and an expert on the rights of people incarcerated by immigration authorities, Inlender comes to UCLA Law from Public Counsel, where she spent 13 years developing and leading eﬀorts to defend incarcerated immigrants. Most recently, she served as the supervising senior staﬀ attorney with Public Counsel’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. Her work has also included advocacy to expand local and state funding for the representation of immigrants in removal proceedings. Previously, Inlender clerked for Judge Stephen Reinhardt on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University and a J.D. from Yale Law School.

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FACULTY FOCUS :: NEW APPOINTMENTS

MICHAEL KARANICOLAS Executive Director, UCLA Institute for Technology, Law and Policy

FACULTY :: NEW LECTURERS ÁNGEL DÍAZ Lecturer in Law

Michael Karanicolas joins UCLA Law as the inaugural executive director of the UCLA Institute for Technology, Law & Policy, a joint endeavor with the UCLA Samueli School of Engineering. He comes from Yale Law School, where he led the Wikimedia/Yale Law School Initiative on Intermediaries and Information, and where he remains an aﬃliated fellow with the Information Society Project. With more than a decade leading eﬀorts devoted to better understanding freedom of expression, transparency, and digital rights, Karanicolas is a widely published author and frequent speaker on issues involving new technologies. Previously, he worked at the Centre for Law and Democracy in Nova Scotia, Canada, and consulted with the Open Government Partnership, UNESCO, and Dalhousie University. He earned a B.A. from Queen’s University in Ontario, Canada, an LL.B. from the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University, and an LL.M. from the University of Toronto.

CINDY X. LIN Executive Director, Ziﬀren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law

Cindy X. Lin joins UCLA Law as executive director of the Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law. With deep experience as a lawyer and executive in the entertainment business, she comes from Sega of America, where she led the company’s North American legal and business affairs team. During that time, Sega was named Metacritic’s top videogame publisher of the year (jumping from No. 18 the year before) and transformed its Sonic the Hedgehog character into a top entertainment property across games, film, animation, and consumer products. She previously worked at Twentieth Century Fox, negotiating licensing, co-promotion, and brand integration deals for hits including Avatar, Titanic, The Simpsons, and Modern Family. She was also an associate at Morrison & Forester. She earned a B.S. and an M.S. from Stanford University and a J.D. from New York University School of Law.

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Ángel Díaz teaches Legal Research and Writing as a lecturer in law. Previously, he worked as counsel in liberty and national security at the Brennan Center for Justice and as an adjunct professor of clinical law at New York University School of Law. He focuses his research and advocacy on the intersection of technology and civil rights and civil liberties. Díaz received his B.A. and J.D. from UC Berkeley, where he was an editor of the California Law Review and the Berkeley Technology Law Journal. As an undergraduate, he taught a course on Cormac McCarthy, the Coen Brothers, and the neo-Western.

GEOFFREY B. KEHLMANN Lecturer in Law

Geoﬀrey B. Kehlmann teaches Legal Research and Writing as a lecturer in law. Previously, he taught Appellate Advocacy at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and was an appellate attorney at Greines, Martin, Stein and Richland. Earlier, he practiced at Sidley Austin and clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. He received his B.A. from Boston College and his J.D., summa cum laude, from Loyola Law School, where he was an editor of the Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review. He externed for Judge Dean Pregerson of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California.

FACULTY :: NEW FELLOWS DANIEL CARPENTER-GOLD Shapiro Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy

Daniel Carpenter-Gold is a fellow at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and will co-teach the Environmental Law Clinic in Spring 2022. Previously, he was a staﬀ attorney in the equitable neighborhoods practice area of TakeRoot Justice, which provides legal, research, and policy support to communitybased organizations in New York City to dismantle racial, economic, and social oppression. Before that, he held fellowships at the Natural Resources Defense Council and New York Lawyers for the Public Interest. Born and raised in rural Maine, he received a B.A. from Columbia University and J.D. from Harvard Law School.

HEATHER DADASHI

EMMANUEL MAULEÓN

Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy

Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Legal Scholar Fellow

Heather Dadashi is a fellow at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. She earned a B.A. from UC Berkeley and a J.D. from UCLA Law with a specialization in environmental law in 2021. During law school, she was a legal fellow at Los Angeles Waterkeeper and a legal intern at the California Oﬃce of the Attorney General in the Natural Resources Law Section and the California Coastal Commission. She also served as a senior editor of UCLA Law’s Journal of Environmental Law and Policy.

GREGORY DAVIS

Emmanuel Mauleón is the Bernard A. and Lenore S. Greenberg Legal Fellow and teaches courses on critical race theory and sexuality. He worked on issues involving surveillance, white nationalist domestic terrorism, and hate crime policy as a fellow at New York University School of Law’s Policing Project and the Brennan Center for Justice’s Liberty and National Security Program. He earned a B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design and a J.D. from UCLA Law, where he was an editor of the UCLA Law Review and the Chicanx Latinx Law Review. He clerked for Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn ’01 of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Williams Institute/Critical Race Studies Richard Taylor Law Teaching Fellow

ANDRIA SO Gregory Davis is the Richard Taylor Law Teaching Fellow for 2021-23 and teaches Critical Race Theory. His research lies in aﬃrmative action, discrimination, empirical legal studies, and critical race theory. Previously, he was a quantitative researcher at Facebook, where he worked on product development and user research. He received a B.A., magna cum laude, from Morehouse College, a J.D./M.A. in law and Afro-American studies from UCLA, where he was the editor-inchief of the Dukeminier Awards Journal of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law, and an M.A. and a Ph.D. in African American Studies from Harvard University.

Emmett/Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy

Andria So is a fellow at the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. She earned a B.A. from UCLA and a J.D. from New York University School of Law, where she was an editor of the NYU Review of Law and Social Change. During law school, she conducted research and analysis for environmental impact litigation at the California regional oﬃce of Earthjustice, and she participated in NYU’s Environmental Law Clinic. She also worked for organizations that addressed domestic violence, HIV in low-income communities, homelessness, and bail.

SAPNA KHATRI Sears Clinical Law Teaching Fellow on Sexual and Reproductive Health, Law and Policy

Sapna Khatri joins the Williams Institute from the ACLU of Illinois. There, as a staﬀ attorney with the Women’s and Reproductive Rights project, she worked on a range of reproductive health and justice issues, including religious refusals to reproductive healthcare and the connection of crisis pregnancy centers to faith-based medical providers. And as advocacy and policy counsel, she focused on privacy, technology, and surveillance matters. She earned a B.J. and a B.A. from the University of Missouri and a J.D. from Washington University School of Law, where she was recognized as the Public Service Student of the Year.

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CENTERS :: CRITICAL RACE STUDIES

CRITICAL RACE THEORY IN THE SPOTLIGHT: RESPONDING TO NATIONAL CONVERSATION As critical race theory (CRT) came under misguided attack throughout 2021, UCLA Law professors, including the foremost experts in the field, were in high demand from members of the media and others who were trying to make sense of the controversy.

Cheryl I. Harris

In response, those faculty members set the record straight on what CRT is — and isn’t — and reframed the conversation around the established principles that have driven their work for decades. UCLA Law is home to the first and only law school-based Critical Race Studies program in the country, which recently celebrated its 20th anniversary. It hosts many pioneering CRT academics. Over the past year, Kimberlé Crenshaw, Cheryl Harris, Laura E. Gómez, LaToya Baldwin Clark, and other faculty members lent their voices to correct the inaccuracies and push back on the attacks against critical race theory through stories and interviews by the Washington Post, the AP, NBC News, Vox, Marketplace, MSNBC, The Nation, Vanity Fair, and The New Yorker. This fall, the program’s faculty members turned their attention to a comprehensive, forward-looking initiative that is designed to respond to attacks on CRT and preserve its value in education and the understanding of the law. This project will provide a publicfacing database that tracks anti-CRT actions

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and legislation by various state and local officials, launch a far-reaching strategic communications plan that pushes back against politically motivated attacks, and engage lawmakers and community leaders to better understand the role that CRT can play

Jerry Kang

scholarship. Jerry Kang’s 2005 article “Trojan Horses of Race,” also in the Harvard Law Review, was crucial in incorporating analysis of implicit bias into law, and Gómez’s 2020 book, Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism, analyzes contemporary

LaToya Baldwin Clark

in building a fair and equal society. It is work that builds on the trailblazing work of the program’s core faculty members, which goes back decades. For example, Crenshaw coined the term intersectionality in her 1989 University of Chicago Legal Forum article “Demarginalizing the Intersection of Race and Sex: A Black Feminist Critique of Antidiscrimination Doctrine, Feminist Theory and Antiracist Politics,” and Harris, UCLA Law’s vice dean for community, equality and justice, wrote the 1993 Harvard Law Review article “Whiteness as Property,” which is a landmark in critical race theory

Noah Zatz

attitudes about Latino identity in the context of historical constructions of, and debates about, race and ethnicity. The program’s new project thus aligns with its founding principles, which strive to use legal scholarship to create a more equitable world. “Identifying and uprooting racism is central to building a multiracial democracy,” says Noah Zatz, 2021-22 faculty director of the Critical Race Studies program. “This research will help chart a path toward a legal system that reflects those values, including in First Amendment jurisprudence.”

“Identifying and uprooting racism is central

to building a multiracial democracy. This research will help chart a path toward a legal system that reflects those values, including in First Amendment jurisprudence.”  NOAH ZATZ, 202122 FACULTY DIRECTOR OF THE CRS PROGRAM

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BRINGING GLOBAL LEADERSHIP TO UCLA AND THE NATION The pandemic shift to online programming allowed the Promise Institute for Human Rights to coordinate impactful speakers across time zones, schools, and indeed, continents, including a national address to law students by Michelle Bachelet, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, and former president of Chile, on March 31. The event, “The Human Rights Challenge,” was part of Executive Director Kate Mackintosh’s vision when she joined the institute in 2018. Her aim was to see a network of universities cooperating on larger initiatives with greater impact. “I was keen to connect with our peers across the nation to create a space to cross-pollinate ideas, innovations, advocacy, and resources for the next generation of human rights lawyers,” Mackintosh says. “It led to this network, and together we were able to engage High Commissioner Bachelet.” The network includes human rights programs in the law schools at American University, Columbia University, Georgetown University, NYU, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, Rutgers University, and Yale University.

Bachelet’s speech reflected on many threats to human rights around the world and how the next wave of rights Michelle Bachelet defenders can be successful. Regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, she spoke about “inequalities and discrimination which the virus has made apparent” and how they do not just harm individuals. “They create shock waves which ripple across the whole of society,” she said. “To recover from this damage, the root causes must be addressed … [as] a matter of justice … and also [as] a way to super charge our recovery.” The talk was an important opportunity for UCLA Law students. “The chance to engage with a global leader in human rights is invaluable for emerging human rights lawyers,” Mackintosh says. “They hear firsthand what the work looks like at the U.N. and international level, and they can use these insights to frame their career paths.”

GENERATING POWERFUL NEW THINKING ON HUMAN RIGHTS

A DIGITAL INVESTIGATIONS LAB IS BORN

The role of corporations in human rights is undeniable, and the 2021 symposium, International Human Rights and Corporate Accountability, was a who’s who of lawyers putting corporate human rights accountability and legal leadership in the spotlight. With opening remarks from Michael Fakhri, U.N. Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, to panel discussions on human traﬃcking in the food supply chain, the corporation as a global superpower, digital surveillance and privacy, sanctions, and more  the symposium was a wellspring of cutting edge thought leadership. “A wide variety of corporations continue to expand their operations and inﬂuence in such a way that they have the power to drastically improve human rights,” says Catherine Sweetser, deputy director of the Promise Institute and a symposium organizer. “The path forward for human rights includes corporations and we are excited by the possibilities in this space.”

In keeping with their mission to empower the next generation of human rights lawyers and leaders, the Promise Institute launched its Human Rights Digital Investigations Lab. The lab will train students in Open Source Investigation Techniques (OSINT) — a methodology involving gathering, analysis, and veriﬁcation of digital materials. “Our goal is to protect human rights and train attorneys capable of working in any environment,” says Jess Peake, assistant director of the Promise Institute. “Increasingly, that means digitally. This specialized training furthers students’ career options and the mission of human rights work.” The lab is the result of a collaboration between UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center and UC Santa Cruz’s Research Center for the Americas. Funding was provided by the University of California Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives grant, and will support continued expansion of the labs across the campuses.

S. Priya Morley (bottom, left) has joined the Promise team, serving as Racial Justice Policy Counsel and expanding the institute’s capacity to address work at the intersection of race and indigeneity with human rights. The 2021-22 academic year also brought a new faculty director, Stephen Gardbaum (bottom, right). And core faculty member and UN Special Rapporteur on Racism, E. Tendayi Achiume (top), received the inaugural Alicia Miñana Chair in Law.

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CENTERS :: LOWELL MILKEN INSTITUTE

LOWELL MILKEN INSTITUTE STAYS THE COURSE BY SHIFTING GEARS The 2020-21 academic year was challenging for everyone, including law students, faculty, and the business law community, but the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy succeeded in adapting its traditional suite of programs to an online format, introducing new programs to meet the unique moment presented by the pandemic, and by launching the new Program on Philanthropy and Nonproﬁts (see story, page 12).

at KB Home. UCLA Law Professor Jason Oh

Gamestonk, the consequences of short

moderated again.

squeezes on those with short positions, and those who were driving up the stock. Weeks later, the Lowell Milken Institute

NEW PROGRAM LAUNCHED: FOUNDERS SPEAKER SERIES

hosted UCLA Law professors James Park and

COVID-19 AND BUSINESS LAW

The pandemic presented students and

happened and what it meant, and could still

alumni with multiple challenges. At the same

mean, for the stock market, and for investors

The institute’s popular Business Law Breakfast

time, UCLA Law students and graduates are

and securities regulation.

series on the UCLA campus became the

trained to confront and work through diﬃcult

online COVID-19 and Business Law series:

situations. Recognizing that the times called

programs for law students, faculty and the

for a little inspiration from UCLA Law alumni

business law community focused on how the

who have faced signiﬁcant challenges, the

pandemic aﬀected corporate governance,

Lowell Milken Institute created the new

bankruptcy practice, and the role of the

Founders Speaker Series. The series invites

general counsel. Events included:

UCLA Law alumni who have founded a

• “Should Boards Have Duties to Stakeholders?

business or other signiﬁcant venture to tell

Lessons from the COVID-19 Crisis,” featuring

their stories, describing the problems they

UCLA Law Professor Stephen M. Bainbridge,

faced and how they succeeded. A success

the William D. Warren Distinguished

in its ﬁrst, pandemic-inspired year, the

Professor of Law; David A. Katz, a partner

Founders Speaker Series will now continue

at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; and

even after the challenges of COVID-19 have

Jeﬀrey M. Lipshaw, Professor of Law at

passed, creating opportunities for dialogue

Suﬀolk University Law School. They were

and action.

Stephen Bainbridge

Iman Anabtawi

James Park

moderated by UCLA Law professors Iman Anabtawi and James Park.

• “COVID’s Eﬀect on Restructuring, Bankruptcy, and Finance,” featuring UCLA Law Professor Dan Bussel, who is also a partner at KTBS Law LLP; Sheri Bluebond, judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Central District of California; and Michael Benn, a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. The moderator was UCLA Law Professor Jason Oh, the Lowell Milken Chair in Law.

THE CURIOUS CASE OF GAMESTOP: SHORT SQUEEZES, ROBINHOOD AND THE ATTACK ON THE ‘WALL STREET ELITES’ The pandemic wasn’t the only event dominating global headlines, or business news, in the past year. One major story was the curious, compelling case of GameStop.

Andrew Verstein to make sense of what had

NEW REPORT STUDIES LOS ANGELES FIRMS BEFORE AND AFTER RECESSIONS UCLA Law places students and graduates with law firms and employers throughout the country and the world, but the school has a special interest in law firms in Los Angeles and Southern California generally. Professor James Park’s recent report "Los Angeles Law Firms Before and After Recessions," is a follow up to his 2018 report "Law Firms in Los Angeles After the Financial Crisis." Both reports received wide press coverage, and last spring the Lowell Milken Institute hosted a panel to discuss the timely question of how law firms fare in recessions. Park was joined in the discussion by Professor Eli Wald, Charles W. Delaney Jr. Professor of Law, Sturm College of Law, University of Denver, and Richard Kolodny, CEO and founder, the Portfolio Group, one of the country’s leading legal search and placement firms.

In January 2021, the retailer of video games, consumer electronics, and gaming merchandise was at the center of dramatic

NEW FACULTY CO-DIRECTOR

with COVID,” featuring Stephanie Kyoko

events in the stock market. Its stock price

Professor Andrew Verstein will serve as the

McKinnon, general counsel at Skydance,

increased 1,500% over the course of two

faculty co-director of the Lowell Milken

Rick Runkel ’81, general counsel and

weeks. During that time, the investing public

Institute alongside Jason Oh, the Lowell

corporate secretary at Synopsys, and Brian

was learning about Robinhood, the subreddit

Milken Chair in Law.

Woram, Executive VP and General Counsel

wallstreetbets, Elon Musk’s viral tweet about

• “How General Counsels Are Dealing

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CENTERS :: IMMIGRATION LAW AND POLICY

CENTER FOR IMMIGRATION LAW AND POLICY HOSTS MAJOR CONFERENCE UCLA Law’s new Center for Immigration Law and Policy announced its presence in the national conversation on immigration issues with a major conference last spring, “Immigration Policy in the Biden Administration: The First 100 Days and Beyond.” The virtual gathering drew more than 1,000 participants from around the world for more than 14 hours of panels over three days in April and May. U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas and Sen. Alex Padilla (D-CA) were among the featured guests at the event organized by Distinguished Professor Hiroshi Motomura and Professor from Practice Ahilan Arulanantham, the faculty co-directors of the center.

Sen. Alex Padilla

Hiroshi Motomura

“This event was an uncommon convening that brought together immigration academics and key people from the worlds of advocacy and government in probing conversations,” says Motomura, who is one of the nation’s top scholars in immigration law and policy. The conversation with Sec. Mayorkas was extraordinary, as it is highly unusual for a sitting Homeland Security secretary to appear in a detailed and substantive conversation with a professor and attorney representing immigrants. In that wide-ranging and detailed discussion, which aired live on C-SPAN, Mayorkas, who immigrated from Cuba as a child, discussed a range of important policy issues with Arulanantham, including the treatment of children at the border, sanctuary cities, and racism in the immigration enforcement system. Their spirited but respectful conversation should serve as a model for how people can productively discuss their disagreements in the immigration context and elsewhere. “It’s an honor to speak with everyone and participate with Ahilan and the wonderful center here at UCLA,” Mayorkas said. Sen. Padilla joined Motomura in a broad discussion. “Immigration is very personal to me,” Padilla said. “I am the proud son of immigrants from Mexico. My parents, like so many others, came to this country in search of a better life.” Their conversation also marked an unusual and important milestone in transparency, as Motomura probed the senator’s positions on a number of important topics, including legislation involving border and naturalization issues and how immigration impacts jobs and critical industries, from farming to technology. “No state has more at stake in immigration policy than the state of California,” said Padilla, who was born and raised in Los Angeles. “California is home to a quarter of the country’s foreign-born population, and immigrants are clearly critical not just to society in general but to our economy.”

Arulanantham Argues at U.S. Supreme Court Professor from Practice and faculty co-director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy Ahilan Arulanantham presented oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court this fall in the case of FBI v. Fazaga. This was his third argument before the Court. In Fazaga, Arulanantham advocated on behalf of Sheikh Fazaga, Ali Malik, and Yasser AbdelRahim; three Muslim Americans who were secretly surveilled by the FBI because of their religious beliefs in 2006 and 2007, while living in Orange County, California. His presentation centered on the argument that the plaintiﬀs’ religious freedom claims should be allowed to proceed. A lawyer for the government disagreed, arguing that the religious freedom claims should be dismissed because, to defend itself, the government would have to disclose information about the operation that would put national security at risk, even if disclosed only to the judge in camera. To prepare for his appearance, Arulanantham — who is also a former assistant federal public defender and a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation Fellow, commonly known as a “genius grant” — relied on the advice and expertise of many members of the UCLA Law community. Several faculty members participated in moot courts, including one that took place before an audience of students, where he practiced his oral argument. “[This case] is extraordinarily important for several reasons,” he said. “It’s a chance to hold the government accountable for discrimination that has gone on ubiquitously against Muslim Americans for the last 20 years. It’s also very important for people interested in NSA spying and other sorts of mass warrantless surveillance.”

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CENTERS :: EMMETT INSTITUTE

FACULTY MENTORSHIP HELPS GRADUATES LAUNCH LEADERSHIP CAREERS IN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment faculty members go beyond the classroom to support students’ career development, offering intensive mentorship to shape students’ academic path and help them earn competitive externships, fellowships, and early career positions. Recent graduates have taken on jobs at the U.S. EPA, the California Attorney General’s Environment Section and Bureau of Environmental Justice, and the California Natural Resources Agency. This year, graduates joined leading legal nonprofits, including Environmental Defense Fund and Earthjustice, and private firms like Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger and Latham & Watkins. Two graduates were awarded fellowships this year to work on environmental justice issues in the Los Angeles region with nonprofit Communities for a Better Environment: Idalmis Vaquero ’21 is an Equal Justice Works Fellow, and Gabriel Greif ’21 is a Public Service Law Fellow, supported by the UC President and the Emmett Institute.

STUDENTS INFLUENCE STATE RESPONSES TO CLIMATE CHANGE AND INDUSTRIAL POLLUTION Students in UCLA Law’s environmental law clinics this year engaged with policymakers and communities to improve government responses to climate change and industrial pollution. Now in its third year, the California Environmental Legislation and Policy Clinic provides hands-on training in the state legislative process. Last fall, students worked alongside legislators and their staff to develop new legislation to help the state adapt to climate change, with a focus on the risks posed by wildfires and sea-level rise. A wildfire bill co-authored by clinic client Sen. Henry Stern included the student team’s policy ideas

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solar geoengineering technologies without an international agreement. Parson and Emmett Fellow Holly Buck also contributed to the journal Global Environmental Politics with an article on how to manage the future phasedown of carbon dioxide removal programs. The research project’s faculty and fellows have produced more than 50 publications since 2017. for addressing neighborhood-level responses to wildfire risk in Southern California. The bill was passed and signed into law this summer. This spring, students in the Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic worked closely with affected community members and Communities for a Better Environment, an environmental justice nonprofit, to advocate for better protections against the harmful impacts of lead pollution from the former Exide industrial recycling facility. Students spoke at a hearing for California’s Department of Toxic Substances Control, asking the state to clean up contaminated parkways in Los Angeles. Based in part on the students’ advocacy, DTSC agreed to do more to assess community needs and priorities for the cleanup. This work is the latest of several clinic projects over the past 15 years to support communities harmed by pollution from the Exide facility.

TED PARSON SHAPES GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS FOR EMERGING CLIMATE TECHNOLOGIES Led by Emmett Institute faculty director Ted Parson, a research project on the governance of solar geoengineering and carbon dioxide removal technologies shaped public understanding of these emerging issues. Parson published an editorial in the journal Science arguing in support of solar geoengineering research and earlier this year, Parson joined Emmett/ Frankel Fellow Jesse Reynolds in organizing a special collection of six papers in the journal Futures on scenarios where diﬀerent groups — like nations vulnerable to climate change or grassroots organizations — might deploy

ALEX WANG ADVANCES CONVERSATION ON U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS AND CLIMATE CHANGE An expert on China’s environmental laws and policies, Emmett Institute faculty co-director Alex Wang advanced the public conversation this year on China-U.S. climate and environmental relations through research, high-level events, and media interviews. In a series of working papers, Wang explained how “constructive competition” could deﬁne the U.S.-China climate relationship, made the case for banning coal in China, and outlined governance challenges for countries’ mid-century carbon neutrality targets. Wang is also leading two research projects on emissions trading in collaboration with Chinese researchers and regulators, funded by the Energy Foundation and the Berggruen Institute. Ahead of U.N. climate talks this fall, Wang presented at a high-level conference on ChinaU.S. climate cooperation, hosted by Stanford University and Peking University and featuring leading academics, oﬃcials, and experts. Wang also spoke on China-U.S. relations at events with the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, China Research Group, the University of Pennsylvania, and other leading centers. And Wang helped explain China’s environmental policies through interviews with The New York Times, Reuters, Bloomberg, and other outlets.

CENTERS :: WILLIAMS INSTITUTE

Bianca D.M. Wilson, Rabbi Zacky Senior Scholar of Public Policy at the Williams Institute, was invited to join a panel of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The panel will develop best practices on collecting sexual orientation and gender identity information on surveys and forms.

WILLIAMS INSTITUTE ADVISES THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT ON LGBTQ RIGHTS The Williams Institute has been working closely this year with the Biden administration to advance LGBTQ rights and improve data collection on LGBTQ Americans. In the fall of 2020, institute scholars produced draft executive orders on LGBTQ rights for the Biden administration. The orders addressed a wide range of issues that impact the health and well-being of LGBTQ people in the U.S. and abroad — including discrimination, the transgender military ban, bullying of youth in schools, and human rights abuses globally, among others. On his first day in office, President Biden issued an executive order requiring agencies to interpret federal laws that prohibit discrimination based on sex to also include sexual orientation and gender identity, consistent with the Supreme Court’s decision in Bostock v. Clayton County. He issued additional orders over the next 100 days to end the transgender military ban, guarantee educational environments are free of discrimination for LGBTQ students, promote LGBTQI+ human rights internationally, expand data collection on LGBTQ populations, reduce the economic and health disparities of COVID-19, and advance racial equity and support for underserved communities. The Williams Institute’s draft orders informed these policies. “Our mission is to conduct research that informs public policy and ensure that those policies are based in fact,” says Brad Sears, founding executive director and David Sanders Distinguished Scholar of Law and Policy at the Williams Institute. “We are honored to have helped support the Biden administration draft data-backed policies that improve the lives of LGBTQ people.” Since January, the institute has also worked with federal agencies to improve and expand data collection on LGBTQ populations. The collaboration resulted in the Census Bureau asking questions about respondents’ sexual orientation and gender identity on the Household Pulse Survey, which provides information on the impact of COVID-19 on people’s lives. “Several more agencies are currently in the process of adding sexual orientation and gender identity questions to the surveys they administer,” says Christy Mallory, the Renberg Senior Scholar and Legal Director at the Williams Institute. “Federal data collection about LGBTQ people will help policymakers develop solutions that address the unique needs and disparities experienced by this population.”

WILLIAMS INSTITUTE TURNS 20

SMALL GRANTS, BIG IDEAS

More than 400 friends and supporters joined the Williams Institute this May to celebrate two decades of research with impact. Special guest former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, U.S. Representatives Maxine Waters (D-CA), and Richie Torres (D-NY) all spoke about the inﬂuence of the institute’s data on policies that improve the lives of LGBTQ people around the world. Over the past 20 years, the Williams Institute has published more than 480 reports, submitted 47 amicus briefs and 41 testimonies, conducted more than 200 judicial education trainings on ﬁve continents, and advocated for the improved data collection on LGBTQ people in federal and largescale surveys. The institute’s research has informed policymakers, judges, advocates, and the media on issues such as employment and housing discrimination, the transgender military ban, conversion therapy, and HIV criminalization. A 2013 estimate of the number of samesex couples raising children was a key factor in Justice Anthony Kennedy's decision to rule in favor of marriage equality.

Early in 2021, the Williams Institute launched two small grants programs to encourage new research on LGBTQ populations in the U.S. and around the world. The LGBTQ and Racial Justice Small Grants Program supported policy-relevant research at the intersections of race, sexual orientation, and gender identity. More than 80 proposals were submitted and six were selected to receive awards. The winning projects span a range of topics that impact LGBTQ people of color, including access to health care, discrimination, immigration, and mortgage lending. Global LGBTI Small Grants Program was designed to foster research on LGBTI populations in the Global South and to support researchers from those regions. Researchers from more than 40 countries submitted 115 proposals. The seven winning projects will look at a range of issues including violence, access to health care, mental health, legal gender recognition, and policing.

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CENTERS :: ZIFFREN INSTITUTE

ZIFFREN INSTITUTE WELCOMES NEW LEADERS, BOARD MEMBERS The Ziffren Institute for Media, Entertainment, Technology, and Sports Law is excited to welcome Cindy X. Lin, its new executive director, and Mark McKenna, its new faculty co-director. Lin joins the Institute from Sega of America, Inc., where she was senior director of legal and business affairs. She brings with her 15 years of leadership experience and collaboration with executives and creatives across media, entertainment, and technology. She previously worked at Twentieth Century Fox and as an associate at Morrison & Forester. McKenna has joined the UCLA Law faculty from Notre Dame Law School. Though his core expertise is in trademark law, he has written broadly on topics in nearly every area of intellectual property. Much of his recent work has focused on design and on the boundaries of different forms of intellectual property. He is also working on projects relating to the regulation of new technologies, particularly those that employ predictive algorithms. The Ziffren Institute is also thrilled to be adding four accomplished industry leaders to its board, as it looks forward to continuing the critical work of educating and training the next generation of attorneys in the media, entertainment, and sports industries.

Catrice Monson ’97 is the managing director and co-founder of Right Size Media, an advisory ﬁrm focused on inclusive storytelling and customer engagement across media, entertainment and technology. She has made it her mission to make creative spaces more inclusive for the underrepresented.

Chad Fitzgerald ’01 is a Partner at Kinsella Weitzman Iser Kump Holley where he specializes in entertainment industry disputes regarding proﬁt participation and vertical integration and boasts an extensive Hollywood clientele. He’s been named to The Hollywood Reporter’s “Power Lawyers” list and one of “Hollywood’s New Leaders” by Variety.

Amy Siegel is the co-head of O’Melveny’s Entertainment, Sports and Media Industry Group. She represents motion picture studios, television networks, distribution and production companies, sports organizations, and other media clients in all business and legal aspects relating to the acquisition, ﬁnancing, exploitation, and management of media-related assets. Her work has earned her a place on The Hollywood Reporter’s “Power Lawyers” list for both 2020 and 2021.

Gabriel Brakin ’05 is the chief operating oﬃcer of Participant, the leading global media company dedicated to entertainment that inspires and compels social change. Brakin oversees company-wide business operations, deal making, and corporate and legal aﬀairs, and is responsible for the integration and operationalization of Participant’s content and impact strategy. A Double Bruin, Brakin also holds a B.A in Political Science from UCLA.

DOCUMENTARY FILM CLINIC KEEPS ROLLING

‘THE SHOW MUST GO ON… LINE’

WE’RE NO. 1 AGAIN!

Even through the pandemic, the Documentary Film Legal Clinic and its clients had an amazing year. Student clinicians and director and associate director Dale Cohen and Dan Mayeda ’82 provided counsel and expertise on more than 20 documentary projects, including notable successes such as: Women in Blue (PBS), Lift Like a Girl (Netﬂix), and 100 Years from Mississippi (winner of Best Documentary Feature at the Harlem International Film Festival and the National Black Film Festival). They worked with emerging ﬁlmmakers referred by the most prestigious documentary organizations, including Film Independent, Firelight Media, and the International Documentary Association (IDA).

The 45th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium transformed into a virtual fourpart webinar series, “The Show Must Go On… Line? Life After Hollywood’s Longest Year.” It featured Tom Wolzien's annual state of the industry update; the future of theatrical distribution; the new backend model in the streaming wars; the changing diversity, equity, and inclusion landscape; the booming business of Inﬂuencers; and a discussion of online speech with general counsels of Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok. The series was capped by the John H. Mitchell Panel on Ethics and Entertainment, and a keynote address by Blumhouse Productions CEO Jason Blum.

There was good news when The Hollywood Reporter published its annual list of the top power lawyers, music attorneys, and legal legends in the entertainment industry. UCLA Law alumni and the Ziffren Institute’s array of programs, clinics, classes, externships, and more had helped secure the school’s position as the No. 1 entertainment law school in the country for the seventh time in eight years. With growing curricular offerings and faculty experts, the Ziffren Institute will continue to be the preeminent training ground for future leaders in entertainment and beyond.

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CENTERS :: INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY, LAW & POLICY

INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARITIVE LAW PROGRAM

ICLP CONFERENCE BRINGS LEADING THINKERS TOGETHER BY DESIGN

THE ITLP’S AMBITIOUS YEAR-ONE AGENDA The Institute of Technology, Law & Policy kicked off its first year of full programming by hosting over 30 lectures and panels on issues from AI inventors to the future of free speech. Speakers included a who’s who of leading experts, such as Jack Balkin, Mark Lemley, Kate Klonick, and ICANN CEO Goren Marby. The institute also featured the best UCLA has to offer in the tech space, from marquee names like Eugene Volokh, Sarah Roberts, and Safiya Noble, to campus newcomers Andrew Selbst, Achuta Kadambi, and Mark McKenna. Ethics in tech was a particular area of focus, with a series that included author Cory Doctorow, the EFF’s stalkerware guru Eva Galperin, and civil society voices such as Tawana Petty of Data for Black Lives. “While the pandemic limits our ability to hold events, it creates new opportunities to host the world’s best and brightest thinkers in this space,” says Michael Karanicolas, the ITLP’s executive director.

Ariel Davis for Rest of World

FROM RESEARCH TO ACTION The ITLP’s global reach is on display with a new article series that the institute is sponsoring. The Destabilization Experiment tracks the impacts of social media on global democracy, connecting American concerns about online political speech, polarization, and the massive influence of the tech sector, with parallel challenges taking place from the Philippines and Brazil to Sudan and South Africa. UCLA students are also getting in on things, with a program that allows the Institute’s research assistants to tackle digital rights challenges related to regulating social media, facial recognition, and digital transparency. “Tech policy should not be a spectator sport,” says Karanicolas. “It’s not enough to have great ideas, you have to bring that knowledge to those making decisions which impact millions of lives. With all the brilliance of UCLA’s students and faculty, there is a lot that we can offer to support smarter rulemaking in this space. And we are just getting started.”

The International and Comparative Law Program joined forces with the Transnational Program on Criminal Justice last fall to co-host the annual meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law. The conference included plenary panels discussing the relationship between comparative law and legal history, and comparative legal histories, and 25 panels featuring over 100 speakers from more than 20 countries, including some of the world's most insightful comparative law scholars. Leading minds on comparative law and legal history were in attendance, including Tamar Herzog from Harvard, Lauren Benton and James Whitman from Yale, and many others. Panels engaged scholars from the two fields to discuss what they can learn from each other methodologically and substantively, a collaboration that is of crucial importance at a time in which the United States is rethinking its relationship with other countries and legal systems, and reinterpreting and reckoning with its own history, including the history of its legal system.

CENTERING AFGHAN VOICES AMID A TUMULTUOUS AND HISTORIC TRANSITION ICLP programs rushed to add scholarly voices to the dialogue on the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan this past summer. This included ensuring that Afghanis themselves were heard from — an example of UCLA Law's commitment to centering affected communities in dialogue. The International and Comparative Law event “Afghanistan: An Evolving Situation” featured Hasina Safi, former minister of women’s affairs in Afghanistan, UCLA Law Professor Aslı Ü. Bâli, and Haroon Azar, senior fellow at UCLA's Burkle Center for International Relations.

REAL-TIME ASSESSMENT OF THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S CHALLENGES The International and Comparative Law Program hosted an event with a lineup of powerhouse scholars to explore the many international relations challenges the Biden Administration faced as it assumed power. From trade and the environment, human rights challenges, and relations with China, Iran, and the EU — “The Biden Administration and International Law” event underscored the nonpareil thought leadership at UCLA Law.

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CENTERS :: CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM

TRANSFORMING LOS ANGELES COUNTY’S JUVENILE JUSTICE PROGRAM Since 2020, CJP has participated in the Youth Justice Reimagined initiative, which is focused on creating alternatives

CRIMINAL JUSTICE LAW REVIEW AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM HOST NATIONWIDE CONFERENCE ON BUILDING SAFE COMMUNITIES In Fall 2021, the Criminal Justice Program partnered with the UCLA Criminal Justice Law Review and the Center for the Study of Women to hold a three-week symposium: “Whose Streets? Building Safe Communities for All.” Conducted entirely virtually, the symposium brought together academics, activists, and lawmakers

to probation and incarceration in Los Angeles County that prioritize equity, accountability, and healing-informed responses along the continuum of youth justice system involvement. In Spring 2020, Leah Gasser-Ordaz, CJP’s youth justice policy lead, moderated a panel for UCLA Law students about the Youth Justice Reimagined initiative and the ongoing work to transform the youth justice system in Los Angeles County, and just this fall, she presented the policy ﬁndings and recommendations from CJP’s report on Los Angeles County Probation’s

from across the country to discuss what

Citation Diversion Program to the

public safety may look like with decreased

Probation Oversight Commission, a civilian

reliance on traditional policing. Each

oversight body that advises the Probation

symposium session examined public

Department and the Board of Supervisors

safety in one of three distinct spheres:

and monitors probation’s progress on

the street, the home, and schools. The

systemic reform. The POC then voted to

symposium series ultimately drew over

adopt all of the recommendations, in a

a hundred total attendees with robust

great example of how UCLA Law research

engagement from participants and UCLA

can be transformative for the justice

Law students.

system in L.A. County.

INGRID EAGLY TO SERVE AS CRIMINAL JUSTICE PROGRAM’S NEW FACULTY DIRECTOR Ingrid Eagly is the program’s new faculty director, taking over for Máximo Langer, who served in that role for five years. She teaches and writes about immigration law, criminal law, evidence, and public interest lawyering. In 2017 she received UCLA’s Distinguished Teaching Award. An expert in the intersection between immigration enforcement and the criminal legal system, she also co-teaches UCLA Law’s Criminal Defense Clinic.

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SHINING A LIGHT ON PROLONGED DETENTION IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY JAILS DURING COVID-19 Sagar Bajpai ’21, Amy Munro, ’21, and Rodrigo Padilla Hernandez, ’21, authored a report as advanced students in CJP’s Bail Practicum that was released in December 2020. Their report — “Counting the Days: The Story of Prolonged Detention During COVID-19” — uncovers that people incarcerated in Los Angeles County jails pretrial were being held for longer periods of time during the COVID-19 pandemic than prior to the pandemic. While 35% of the pretrial population in January had been in custody for six months or longer, in September it jumped to 41%. The percentage of Black and Latinx people in the jails increased during the pandemic. 36% of Black people detained pretrial in January had been in jail for six months or longer, but that number jumped to just over 44% by September. The report draws from over 400 declarations submitted by people incarcerated in the county’s jails and data from the Los Angeles Sheriﬀ’s Department.

CONNECTING ART AND LAW FOR LIBERATION (CALL) VIRTUAL FESTIVAL Students, faculty, and staff across UCLA’s campus came together to make the virtual CALL festival come alive. To imagine an abolitionist future, the festival featured a conversation among artists and formerly incarcerated individuals, and workshops led by people across the globe focused on advocacy through the arts to fight mass incarceration.

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RESNICK CENTER LAUNCHES GLOBAL BEST PRACTICES PROJECT In 2021, the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy launched a seminal project on global best practices in food regulation, funded by the Seeding the Future Family Foundation, founded by Bernhard Van Lengerich, a member of the Resnick Center’s outside advisory board. Melissa Shapiro, a former instructor in the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic, will direct the project, which will produce a report and an interactive website analyzing best practices in food regulation from countries around the world. By identifying and annotating model legislative and regulatory approaches in the food space, this

New Juice Drinks Labeling Initiative Juice drinks often aren’t what they seem. That’s the premise behind the Resnick Center’s new Juice Drinks Labeling Initiative, started in collaboration with public health scholars and leading experts in science, law, and policy. The focus of the initiative is a citizen petition to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration requesting changes in the labeling of juice drinks to empower parents and consumers to make better health decisions. The initiative also fosters cohesive working relationships between nutritional science researchers and legal and policy advocates. Healthy Eating Research and the Feed the Truth nonprofit organization contributed seed funding which aided student research in support of the initiative.

project will promote cooperation and sharing amongst governments and stakeholders, identify gaps in the regulation of serious food issues that need further attention, and inspire regulatory innovation and novel approaches.

New Podcast Launches: Introducing ‘Repast’ Big news for your food law and policy listening pleasure! The Resnick Center has launched a monthly podcast series, “Repast,” where executive director Michael Roberts and deputy director Diana Winters interview thought leaders in the field of food law and policy to discuss past achievements, current developments, and future challenges. Thus far, the podcast has covered topics including: the dangerous levels of sodium in the American diet; Sen. Tom Harkin’s significant impact on food policy; a discussion with the founder of the Center for Good Food Purchasing; conversations with the President and CEO of Partnership for a Healthier America on reforming food systems; the health harms of processed foods; agribusiness innovation; and immigration enforcement in meatpacking plants. “Repast” was even named one of the top 10 food and agriculture law podcasts by Feedspot.

RESNICK CENTER SCHOLARS CONTRIBUTING TO FOUR NEW PUBLICATIONS Michael Roberts and Diana Winters, the Executive Director and Deputy Director of the Resnick Center, are busy with an exciting set of new publications due in 2022 and beyond. Roberts is editing a research handbook on international food law to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing in 2022. Approximately 30 scholars from law schools and leading institutions are contributing chapters to the book. A broad range of topics will be covered in the book drawn from the development of food law and from current important issues in the regulation of food.

He is also contributing a volume to the Edward Elgar law and governance series on the history of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). Also due in 2022, this volume discusses the historical beginnings of the FAO, the legal and governance structure of the FAO, and the role of the FAO within the international regulation of food. Meanwhile, Diana Winters and Roberts are revising Roberts’s seminal food law treatise Food Law in the United States for a second edition

for Cambridge University Press, to be published in 2023. The two have also formed a partnership, dating back to June 2019, with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations on a series of research and advisory initiatives. This year, Roberts and the FAO legal department are co-drafting a major report on food fraud for the FAO legal department to be presented to FAO member countries. The report will consist of international legal strategies to regulate food fraud.

Michael Roberts

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Epstein Program Hosts Pathbreaking Levy Fellows

Marbre Stahly-Butts

Jullian Harris-Calvin

Two national leaders in civil rights and public interest law joined UCLA Law for a series of presentations and meetings during their Margaret Levy Public Interest Fellowships in Spring 2021. Marbre Stahly-Butts and Jullian Harris-Calvin ’13 were the latest in a growing line of impactful lawyers who come to UCLA Law as part of the Levy Fellowship and share with students, faculty, staﬀ, and alumni the expertise that they have gained on the front lines of public interest legal practice. The Levy Fellowships launched in 2018 with the support of dedicated alumna and civil litigation expert Margaret Levy ’75 and the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. The initiative brings top leaders to UCLA Law for multi-day visits. In 2021, the visits were conducted virtually. Stahly-Butts is executive director of Law for Black Lives. She was a Levy Fellow during the week of March 8, when she presented the public lecture “Lawyering for Liberation: Movement Lawyering and Black Lives Matter.” A longtime leader in social justice policy development and advocacy, Stahly-Butts has worked to address issues including aggressive policing and criminal justice reform. Harris-Calvin is the director of the Greater Justice New York program at the Vera Institute of Justice. She was a Levy Fellow during the week of April 5, when she presented the public lecture “Putting It All Together: Supporting Movements Through Data, Storytelling, and Policy Expertise.” She has made a substantial impact in the criminal justice reform movement since graduating from UCLA Law, serving as a public defender in New York and the District of Columbia, among other positions. Previous Levy Fellows include Catherine Lhamon, chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights; Vanita Gupta, who now serves as the U.S. associate attorney general; Dale Ho, director of the ACLU Voting Rights Project; and Janai Nelson ’96, the next president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund (see story, page 14). Videos of the fellows’ lectures are available on UCLA Law’s YouTube page.

SERVICE IN THE SPOTLIGHT: UCLA LAW HOSTS PUBLIC INTEREST CELEBRATION UCLA Law celebrated the school’s fourth U. Serve L.A. celebration and second Public Service Challenge this fall, recognizing the community’s remarkable pro bono, public interest, and public service contributions. Founded in 2018, the U. Serve L.A. event has raised more than $240,000 for UCLA Law’s public interest initiatives. Cosponsored by UCLA Law’s David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and the UCLA Law Alumni Association, U. Serve L.A. includes live entertainment and the presentation of awards to several distinguished members of the law school’s public interest law community. This year, three members of the UCLA Law public interest family were singled out for special recognition: Scott Cummings, the Robert Henigson Professor of Legal Ethics and a former faculty director of the Epstein Program; Brenda Kim, the former manager of operations and events for UCLA Law’s Office of Public Interest Programs; and Victor Narro, the project director for the UCLA Labor Center and a 2L Seminar Instructor in the Epstein Program. Fifteen students from the law school’s J.D., LL.M., and Masters of Legal Studies classes were also honored for their outstanding commitment to public service and public interest law. “It is impossible to put into words really how special [receiving this award] is to me,” Cummings said in accepting his award from

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Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “Over the course of my 20 years at UCLA, my most profound experiences and relationships have been with students and colleagues in the public interest program, people who have constantly reminded me why I became a lawyer in the first instance.” During the law school’s annual Public Service Challenge, more than 460 members of the UCLA Law community contributed over 1,050 pro bono hours over ten days to an array of legal and nonlegal volunteering opportunities. “U. Serve L.A. was a terrific night to gather together, after all of the time that we spent apart, and celebrate our collective work in the public interest and public service, which is so important to us at UCLA Law,” says Brad Sears, the law school’s associate dean of public interest law.

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From the Desk of John Sonego, Associate Dean of External Affairs Dear Alumni and Friends of UCLA Law, For many of us, a sense of connection begins with a place — a home, a room, a building, that comes to represent something meaningful in our lives. When I began my new role as associate dean of external aﬀairs at the height of pandemic, I had never been inside the law school building. Nor had I met any of my new team, colleagues, or our students in person.

“Each of us with a UCLA Law affiliation shares a common connection, built around values and experiences we all share....There is such phenomenal work going on at the school, and I do hope you will want to be a part of it!”

It would be many months before I could enter the halls or meet people face-to-face. When I started, I wasn’t sure how to meet the challenge of building connection and relationships without that direct contact. How do you build a relationship with a face on a zoom screen, or get a sense of and share the great learning that continued on, even when classrooms were empty? What I found, though, was something remarkable. There’s a spirit, a sense of community and a shared purpose that seems to connect everyone with an affiliation to the law school. That affiliation easily transcends place  it is rooted in a reverence for the law, an abiding appreciation for the work of the school, and a commitment to providing access to generations of lawyers destined to become leaders in their field. And it is rooted in a sense of warm congeniality that has marked all of my interactions with the law school community. It has been so gratifying to be welcomed into a community that cares so deeply about the school and is so eager to support the school’s needs and priorities.

to help launch a center for reproductive justice with the help of so many alumni and friends of the UCLA Law community. I am fortunate to work with the school’s Board of Advisors, who have played a pivotal role in helping to lead the school to two consecutive record fundraising years. And to work with the passionate alumni engaged on our alumni board, in UCLA Women LEAD, and in other institute and program boards across the school. Every day, I marvel at my good fortune to have such a great partner in Dean Mnookin, and to work with the amazing faculty and staﬀ here. And, I’m grateful to work with a strong external relations team, each of whom brings their skills, talent and focus to our collective work of serving our students and the alumni community. Each of us with a UCLA Law aﬃliation shares a common connection, built around values and experiences we all share. There are so many ways for you to connect with the school, including mentoring our students, volunteering for board service, supporting scholarships and research, and participating in our programs, including the new Web series, “From the Front Lines,” which looks at critical issues in the news through a legal lens. There is such phenomenal work going on at the school, and I do hope you will want to be a part of it! I look forward to working with each of you to continue building that community and connection. Warm regards,

I am glad for what we have accomplished together, despite the challenges of the pandemic. It is enormously rewarding to help

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grow the nation’s leading centers in critical

John Sonego

race studies, immigration policy reform, and

Associate Dean, External Aﬀairs

GIFTS OF $39.9 MILLION BOOST UCLA LAW TO RECORD ANNUAL TALLY UCLA Law set a new annual fundraising record, with donations from alumni and friends that amounted to more than $39.9 million during 2020-21. The total exceeded the previous high mark of $32.7 million, which the law school set in 2018-19. Th is past year, gifts contributed to the excellence of nearly every area of law school. Generous support went to scholarships for students, new faculty chairs, centers and institutes, and the creation or expansion of curricular offerings and other educational opportunities. A full 3,008 donors made 3,976 gifts. Law school alumni made up nearly 65% of the contributors. UCLA Law continues to have a higher percentage of alumni giving back to the school than any other UCLA professional school or part of the university. In addition, 488 people gave for the fi rst time, a 21% increase over the previous year. “It is so deeply gratifying, especially on the heels of the hugely successful Centennial Campaign that ended last year, to see our alumni and friends continue their support – and, in fact, to give even more than they have ever before,” says John Sonego, the law school’s associate dean for external aff airs. The five-year Centennial Campaign culminated in a $181 million haul for the law school. “Even better: So many new alumni and friends joined in, giving back to this incredible institution and recognizing our accomplishments depend on their generosity.” Major gifts during 2020-21 included: •

An anonymous gift of $5 million for the recently founded Center for Immigration Law and Policy, allowing it to expand its staffi ng and operations. Th is year, the center brought in Professor from Practice Ahilan Arulanantham and deputy director Talia Inlender. They join Distinguished Professor Hiroshi Motomura, who serves as faculty co-director with Arulanantham.

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$3.7 million from Lowell Milken ’73 to create the Program on Philanthropy and Nonprofits in the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy (see story, page 12).

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$1 million from Lynda and Stewart ’62 Resnick to continue their support of the Resnick Center for Food Law and Policy.

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$1 million to establish the Alicia Miñana Chair in Law from Alicia Miñana ’87 and her husband, Rob Lovelace. The chair is designed to support a faculty member with interests at the intersection of human rights and immigration or migration. The inaugural holder of the chair is Professor E. Tendayi Achiume (see story, page 40).

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$1 million from Karen and Jeff Silberman ’82, to establish an achievement fellowship scholarship, the second such scholarship that they have endowed. The Silbermans also provided $250,000 in immediate-use funds to support the law school’s Achievement Fellowship program (see story, page 70).

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$600,000 from the David Bohnett Foundation to help create the Judge Rand Schrader Pro Bono Program and hire Grace Meng as the inaugural Judge Rand Schrader Pro Bono Director (see story, page 39).

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$250,000 from Miñana and Lovelace to support the hire of a communications director for the Critical Race Studies program.

In addition to those gifts listed above, UCLA School of Law received in September 2020 a $15 million donation from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria to advance the study and practice of Native American law. The gift is the largest-ever contribution that a tribe has made to a law school and one of the biggest in history from a tribe to a university. The funds are dedicated to scholarships for Native American and other students interested in pursuing careers as tribal legal advocates. This year, the law school welcomed the first three recipients of these scholarships (see story, page 34). “Tribal law is a cornerstone of Native Americans’ quest for equality and inclusion within the U.S. justice system,” said Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria Tribal Chairman Greg Sarris, who received his undergraduate degree from UCLA and returned to teach English for more than a decade. “UCLA’s commitment to educating and preparing the next generation of tribal legal advocates is personally known to me, as an alumnus and former UCLA professor. We hope this gift will begin the drive for equity for our people in our native land.”

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Achievement Fellowships: Karen and Jeﬀ Silberman Give Back Again

Jeﬀ and Karen Silberman

In 2019, Karen Foster Silberman and Jeff Silberman ’82 endowed an Achievement Fellowship at Jeff’s alma mater, UCLA Law. Achievement Fellowships include full-tuition scholarships to academically talented, highachieving students who overcame great obstacles on the path to law school. In its first five years, the program has brought 39 students to UCLA Law. “The gift of an education is the most profound ‘hand up’ that you can give young people,” Jeff said at the time. “Helping others to have the life-changing benefits of the education we both received is a priority and a core value.” The Silbermans — whose philanthropy has connected them to religious, civic, cultural, and community organizations — say that they give back because “it has been part of our family DNA since we both were children” and “[we] love the personal connections that evolve from our philanthropy!” They have maintained that personal connection by participating on the committees that interview and recommend Achievement Fellowship recipients. This year, the Silbermans made a new commitment to this initiative, pledging another $1 million for a second Achievement Fellowship. Here, they talk about this decision and why their commitment to UCLA Law and its students matters so much to them.

Thank you for speaking with us and, of course, thank you for your continued generosity to this vital scholarship opportunity for our students. Of course! We love UCLA School of Law. It is truly one of our favorite philanthropic beneficiaries. We believe so strongly in the school, the incredible students we’ve gotten to know, and in Dean Mnookin’s leadership. Her commitment to the Achievement Fellowship program has made our own commitment very easy. You seem to have found your involvement with the Achievement Fellowships deeply satisfying. Is this why you’ve made this new gift? Absolutely. First, the academic and personal qualities of the students applying for these scholarships is incredible. As for their life stories, each one is as compelling as the next. We’ve gained so much personally from getting to know these students. Our own lives are richer for it. We’ve invested in capital projects, and we’ve invested in cultural institutions, but, for us, a scholarship is the ultimate gift. It isn’t just about three years of tuition. It’s about helping a person succeed and thrive for the decades after those three years. And, of course, the multiplier effect of all the lives that are helped and made better by what these students will do, professionally and personally. You mention that your lives are richer for your involvement in this initiative. How so? The relationships. We are blessed to have one-on-one time with these students. They have visited our home, or we have been with them at school events. We have made ongoing connections and a real trust and mentor relationship has evolved with many of the students. But mentors will often tell you that they get much more back from the mentee, which has been absolutely true for us. What is it about this particular program that means so much to you? We are thrilled to see the school excelling in many important metrics including academic standing and, most important, student training and wellness. We are proud to partner with the school to help to further the school’s commitment to being a more diverse and inclusive environment for students and for faculty. This program exemplifies Dean Mnookin’s entrepreneurial spirit in approaching this need. We think it’s a hallmark of her deanship. We really hope others will join us and have the satisfaction and pleasure that we’ve derived from impacting lives through the Achievement Fellowship program!

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‘Hallelujah!’: Video of UCLA Law Grad Passing Bar Exam Goes Viral If you haven’t seen it by now, the 42-second clip is deﬁnitely worth watching – a joyous video showing the moment when 2020 UCLA Law graduate Omarr Rambert learned that he passed the California Bar Exam. What begins with Rambert logging into his computer and a few beats of quiet nervousness erupts into tears of relief and cries of “Hallelujah!” as the UCLA Law alum, his mother, and brother soak in the reality that, after waiting so, so long … he passed. Since Rambert and his mother posted the video to their respective Instagram accounts in mid-January, it became a viral internet sensation. “The reaction has been amazing,” Rambert says. “I have been contacted by people all over the world: Germany, Australia, Japan, the U.K., et cetera. So many people have been inspired by the video for several reasons. One, some people know my story and the road to get to that moment. Two, many people have appreciated seeing a Black male accomplish his goals. And three, the past year has been tough for everyone, so to see a moment like this was refreshing for many.” The video also captured the end of a long journey for Rambert, who has wanted to be a lawyer since he was in ﬁfth grade. An aspiring entertainment attorney, he came to UCLA Law to specialize in its leading entertainment law program. He also served as an editor of the UCLA Law Review and the National

Black Law Journal and as social chair of the Black Law Students Association. But his experience also included a personal jolt whose sad echoes, he says, reverberate in the video: “My stepfather, my biggest supporter outside of my mother, passed away at the beginning of my 3L year in a tragic car accident.” The months after graduation presented more challenges, including delays in the administration of the exam and then uncertainty about when the results would be announced. “Studying for the bar exam while trying to stay focused amid a pandemic and recent racial injustice movements can be mentally and physically exhausting,” he says, “because you realize that there are much bigger things going on in the world other than this test.” Now, Rambert is a litigation associate at Ballard Spahr in Century City, with hopes of tailoring his practice to ﬁlm and television law as his career progresses. Whatever direction it takes, he will always have the video to remember what he calls “the greatest accomplishment of my life thus far.” “That moment was an emotional and longsought-after one because I overcame so much adversity to get there,” he says. “Once I received my results, I experienced every emotion: happiness, reassurance, relief, excitement, conﬁdence. I will never forget that moment.”

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LEADing the Way for Students and Alumnae Leadership. Empowerment. Advancement. Distinction. That’s the motto and mission of UCLA Law Women LEAD, a diverse, inclusive, intergenerational community helping one another advance their professional goals. The group, begun by alumnae seven years ago, is a network of more than 3,300 women who create opportunities for students and alumnae to meet the many challenges faced uniquely by women in the legal industry. While the network itself can be found in a formal sense through its formidable LinkedIn group, the real magic happens in the direct connections people make, one on one, or in larger groups, in real life, whether that’s in person, as it was for a recent hike in the Santa Monica Mountains, at home dinners with our LL.M. women from around the world, or on Zoom, and other forms of remote communication people have learned to master in the past 18 months. It is also found in the group’s formal events, which include two summits at the law school, in 2017 and 2019, drawing hundreds of participants. Co-founders and current board co-chairs Nancy L. Abell ’79, a partner at Paul Hastings, and Michelle Banks ’88, a senior advisor for BarkerGilmore, take special pride in the way the group has met the needs of UCLA Law’s increasingly international and diverse student body and alumni network. “We have women in 59 countries,” says Abell. “The power of that is immense.” Here, four LEAD members, including current students and alumnae, talk about what LEAD’s novel and impactful network means to them.

One thing that’s important to me about LEAD is that we have genuine “commitment to diversity. We incorporate diversity into all aspects of what we do, in an intentional way, and we hold ourselves accountable in how we grow the network.” —KRIS CHEH BECK

KRIS CHEH BECK ’99 is the chief legal officer of CREXi, a commercial real estate platform: The people I meet through LEAD are dynamic, brilliant women whom I get to connect with, learn from, and call my friends. Together, we form a 360-degree view of the legal profession and the many stages of it. For myself, I can be a mentor to students, which I love, but also be on the receiving end of mentorship from LEAD members who are further along in their professional journey or doing things entirely diﬀerent from what I do. One thing that’s important to me about LEAD is that we have genuine commitment to diversity. We incorporate diversity into all aspects of what we do, in an intentional way, and we hold ourselves accountable in how we grow the network. I’m a first-generation practicing lawyer. My parents are immigrants, I’m an immigrant myself. So, I didn’t have a lot of allies during law school who could point me in the right direction or even just show me the diﬀerent possibilities and the opportunities. Today, LEAD is filling that gap and proving the point that you can do anything with the amazing education you get from UCLA Law. To work with a student from that starting point and to be of help in their process… I get so much more out of it than they probably do! It’s amazing to hear what drives them and to learn what people who are entering the legal profession now care about. It’s a way for me to remain engaged and remain current and contemporary rather than being trapped in my own timeline.

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SHIREEN TAVAKOLI ’17 is the founder and managing attorney of One Law Litigation, a boutique firm in Los Angeles. With LEAD, you have a group of women who’ve experienced life in diﬀerent ways. Most important is that they really do share that experience. Members are responsive and really welcoming and encouraging and supportive. That’s been especially important to me, because I switched career paths a couple of times. I started with big law, which I loved but realized it wasn’t the right fit for my whole career. Then I moved into public interest, working for the United Nations for a couple years, which I also loved, but knew it could not be my whole career. Now I am back in California, in private practice, running my own firm, and I feel this is what I was meant to do. Every step of the way, I needed help. And I got that through LEAD. Just as you build relationships with your professors, advisors, and other law students, you must build a relationship with the bigger law community. There’s so much to learn, and you can’t learn it all in school alone. LEAD can start you on the path of learning.

JULIANA DELGADO RESTREPO LL.M. ’22 is from Bogotá, Colombia, and specializing in entertainment law and law and sexuality. I chose UCLA because it’s one of the best universities in the country and has the best program in entertainment. I love being here, but Los Angeles is a huge city and poses many challenges for people who get here to start from scratch. LEAD has helped me feel at home here and allowed me to build a group alongside my classmates where I can learn the city, the profession, and what I can do with my LL.M. degree when I finish. It is important to me to have a way to connect with other women. We have some diﬀerent struggles in the professional world. With LEAD, I connect to people who may be in similar situations about how to balance your career with your personal life, how do you go to high positions in your work, and how to acquire leadership skills. Coming from Colombia, I love that LEAD has so many women from around the world with similar interests and challenges, but who have diﬀerent perspectives and can give me a fresh view of what I am doing. I decided to study law because I wanted to help people. I think lawyers are like the doctors of society. When people are in trouble, when they cannot solve things by themselves, they go to lawyers, right? And when we students cannot solve things, we can go to LEAD.

MARY RAMZY ’22 is president of UCLA Law’s Real Estate Law Association and previously served as co-president of the school’s 1st Generation Law Students Association. I had kind of a difficult first semester of law school. Everything got back on track after that, but it was with LEAD that I knew, for the first time, that I really had people taking me seriously. I was seen as an entire person, not just one component of my story, my first semester of law school. I owe so much to the group, and the network of women who’ve been willing to mentor me, see both my value and potential, and encourage me to take control of my career-even at this early stage. When I was going through the recruiting process last summer, I received a job offer that I wasn’t completely sure of and I’d emailed a LEAD mentor to say, “I honestly don’t know if I’m making the right choice in potentially pursuing this opportunity.” She emailed me back within 15 minutes and said “Let’s talk about it. Don’t worry. We will figure it out. We have the LEAD network. Don’t stress, everything is going to work itself out.” And it absolutely has, I ended up with a phenomenal job. The LEAD group has been amazing, especially in terms of starting my career and being able to hear from powerhouse women in the legal industry like Nancy Abell and Michelle Banks and learn from their wealth of experience. But LEAD has also transformed my relationship to classmates I met through LEAD rather than in my section or my classes. And now we have a space and a group in which to interact with our peers, to bounce things off, and to get to know each other in a personal way, which is such a huge part of having a great experience in law school and getting ready for the profession. Thank you, LEAD!

Join by going to LinkedIn Groups at

linkedin.com/groups/13783051/

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PIONEER, PRESIDING: Lachs ’63, World’s First Openly Gay Judge, Reflects WITHIN DAYS OF HIS APPOINTMENT to the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 1979, a landmark event that made him the first openly gay judge in the world, UCLA Law alumnus Stephen Lachs ’63 could tell that things would never be the same. “There wasn’t much question about it,” he says today. “I immediately started getting mail, literally hundreds and hundreds of letters from people all over the world. They would write to ‘Judge Stephen Lachs, Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, California,’ and it would all get to me. Most of the letters were congratulatory. A number of people wrote to me saying, ‘I can’t tell you how grateful I am for what you’ve done because it has inspired me. I never thought that I, as a gay person, could do anything, and now I see that you can do something with your life.’ I got so many letters like that. Even now, I could just about cry thinking about it.” Lachs went on to serve with distinction, presiding over high-profile family law and other cases before he retired from the bench in 1999. Now 81, he works as a private mediator, and, in spite of his remarkable career, to this day considers himself, simply, “Stevie from Brooklyn.” For him, that rise to the bench and sudden emergence as an inspiring figure of historic importance is an improbable story that involves hard work, determined activism, plenty of luck, and the life lessons that he learned in Westwood. For his alma mater, Lachs is someone whose humble leadership, immense success, and everyday heroism represents a style of excellence that has characterized UCLA Law students and alumni of all backgrounds since the beginning. “UCLA changed my life, completely,” says Lachs, a Double Bruin who earned his undergraduate degree in political science. “It was the most important institution in my life, and I am eternally grateful for everything that was given to me there.”

‘They Want to Meet a Gay Lawyer’ Like many in the UCLA Law community, Lachs was not a Los Angeles native, but he quickly found a lifelong home when his family moved from New York City in the mid-1950s and he opted to attend the university and law school that were in his new backyard. The second member of his large family to attend college and the first to earn an advanced degree, Lachs adored law school, notably courses on securities transactions and income taxation. In the early 1960s, UCLA Law was barely a decade old and had yet to develop the vast networks of affinity groups, community outreach endeavors, specialized centers of scholarship, and experiential options that it is known for today. Still, Lachs says, “It was a dynamic and growing school, you could feel it. This was not a school that was just going to be sitting there. It was moving. And it was a good feeling to be a part of that.” For more than a decade following his 1963 graduation, he worked at the California Department of Insurance, in general practice law firm jobs, and for the L.A. public defender. In times that were far more socially unforgiving and professionally conservative, Lachs did not discuss his sexuality in public. He was not out beyond a small circle of friends – or, as he says, “out-out” – until the early 1970s, when an acquaintance asked him to attend a small meeting of gay law students who traveled from as far away as San Diego. Lachs remembers, “He said, ‘Would you like to come? They want to meet a gay lawyer.’ None of them had ever seen one before.” So began his leadership in the burgeoning gay rights movement and community support groups. That included service on the board of what is now the Los Angeles LGBT Center and, years later, as a member and chair of AIDS Project Los Angeles. His legal career also blossomed following his representation of peaceful Vietnam War student protesters. In 1975, he took an exam and was one of three people selected from an applicant pool of 150 to become a superior court commissioner, an official who hears cases like a judge if the parties stipulate. The end of the decade also saw a gradual shift in the shape of the legal profession and judiciary. President Jimmy Carter appointed a number of pathbreaking women and others to the federal bench. California Gov. Jerry Brown, then in his first two-term stint as the state’s chief executive, was elected with substantial support from members of the gay and lesbian community. They encouraged him to diversify the courts with one of their own, and Lachs, by then a respected commissioner with a decade in public service, was a compelling choice. “As the song goes, 'The times, they were a-changin’,” Lachs says. “It was thrilling, I’ve got to tell you, living through those times, from the late-Sixties until the AIDS crisis. It was a thrilling, thrilling time to see the changes that were happening, in this country and, honestly, in the world. And to be a part of it? Oh my God.”

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Lachs made global headlines when he was appointed around his 40th birthday. (While many sources establish that Lachs was the first openly gay judge in America, no evidence apparently refutes the presumption that he was also the first openly gay judge in the world, and Lachs has never heard otherwise. He admits that the ancient Greeks may have had judges who were out, but he adds that he is not a scholar of ancient Greece.) He was one in a small handful of openly gay government officials in the country. In a sign of the times, a headline and the caption on a widely distributed wire-service photograph called him “California’s first avowed homosexual judge,” a phrase that still startles. He had never expected to be such a trailblazer, he says, lightly adding, “I had barely taken my vows – as an avowed homosexual!” But the world noticed. In addition to the flood of letters and newspaper clippings, Lachs was invited to speak at colleges and law schools around the country – at one event, he met Michael Ruvo, his husband of 41 years – and his connection to significant members of his community of advocates and attorneys strengthened. Among them was Rand Schrader, another pioneering UCLA Law alumnus who had been the first openly gay staffer in the L.A. City Attorney’s office and would himself be appointed by Brown to the state municipal court in 1980 (see story, page 78). Six years apart in age, Lachs and Schrader had in fact met at that early-1970s gathering of gay law students, when Lachs came out. Schrader was one of the students. They remained close through the following two decades, loyal confidantes and colleagues in service and advocacy, until Schrader died of AIDS in 1993, at age 48. A short time before, L.A. County’s main center for the care of people with HIV, which Schrader helped found, was renamed the Rand Schrader Health and Research Clinic. It remains today, among other prominent celebrations of his life. “He deserved it, he inspired a lot of people, and if you do that, you deserve those accolades,” Lachs says. “But I knew him differently,” he continues. “We were both on the board of the [Los Angeles LGBT] Center, and I knew him as a friend – as a dear, close friend, not as a city attorney or whatever. For some of us, he will always be ‘Randy.’ He will always be an important, loving person. He was a vital friend of mine. I was so fortunate to have met so many wonderful people, and he really was one of them.”

“I immediately started getting mail, literally hundreds and hundreds of letters from people all over the world. They would write to ‘Judge Stephen Lachs, Los Angeles Superior Court, Los Angeles, California,’ and it would all get to me. Most of the letters were congratulatory. A number of people wrote to me saying, ‘I can’t tell you how grateful I am for what you’ve done because it has inspired me. I never thought that I, as a gay person, could do anything, and now I see that you can do something with your life.’ I got so many letters like that. Even now, I could just about cry thinking about it.” — Stephen Lachs

‘I Wear My UCLA Cap’ Even in the early spring or late fall, temperatures can soar well into the triple digits around the home where Lachs and Ruvo now live in the California desert. Before the pandemic, they had been dividing their time between that arid resort community and their place in New York. But the past year has kept them on the West Coast and been one of slower days where all outdoor activities need to end before 10 a.m., when the sun gets too high in the sky. Each morning, Lachs takes his little 18-year-old dog for a walk to a neighborhood park. Before heading out, he checks the newspaper’s sports section to find out about the latest Bruins victory, and he looks at the Daily Journal, which, he notes, is increasingly filled with retirement announcements for judges who had not yet joined the bench when he was on it. Even if his decades of service had never made headlines, his record of accomplishments and dedication to the law – 20 years as a judge, 21 years and counting as a mediator, and nearly 60 years as a member of the state bar – would rise high above the norm. The multitude of cases still spark his mind. The poor families whose costly divorces he helped resolve. The ultra-wealthy businesspeople whom he navigated through the thorny thickets of who gets to use the private jet. And the two separate matters involving Michael Jackson, among countless celebrities whose problems, he firmly states, are just like everyone else’s. It’s a history that Lachs is still living as he and his dog head out into the heat. “It’s always sunny out,” he says, “so I wear my UCLA cap. Seriously. Without law school and the excitement that I felt and the enjoyment that I got from it, I never would have gone into law. UCLA is always going to be a part of me – a big part.”

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Karst Scholarship Honors Legacy of Beloved UCLA Law Professor The incredible legacy of UCLA School of Law professor Kenneth L. Karst is being recognized through a new scholarship that supports students who are committed to racial equity and who embody Karst’s spirit of collegiality. The Kenneth L. Karst Scholarship in Law was established through the generosity of Karst’s family and the newly formed Kenneth L. Karst Racial Equity Foundation. A number of Karst’s students and colleagues have also made contributions in support of the scholarship. The scholarship will go to one student in each entering class, covering a portion of tuition for all three years of law school. Over time, the number of recipients is expected to grow as funding for the scholarship increases. UCLA Law alumni and friends who remember Professor Karst with affection are encouraged to consider donating to help grow this scholarship fund. Karst Scholars will become part of a community of future lawyers and practicing lawyers who are dedicated to promoting social justice in their personal and professional endeavors. “This was his passion,” says Karst’s daughter Leslie. “Dad truly believed that every resident of the United States, no matter their social class, race, caste, sexual orientation, whatever, should be treated as an equal citizen and have a true sense of belonging to the country. We focused this scholarship on racial equity because it's an area where so much progress still needs to be made. If you read Dad's 1989 book Belonging to America, he was quite optimistic about racial equality. But if he wrote the book today, he would be very disappointed and say, ‘There’s more work that has to be done.’” Karst was an influential constitutional law scholar, teacher, and longtime faculty member who had a profound effect in shaping UCLA Law. He joined the law school in 1965 and was an active member of the faculty for 40 years, during which he earned the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award and the Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching. A prolific and celebrated author in a wide range of fields, he was cited at least 12 times by the Supreme Court and another 77 times by other federal courts. He was a favorite of students, colleagues, and peers, and his efforts to address inequi-

ties in access to justice and legal education helped develop early minority outreach programs by the law school and shaped broader debates on access and equality. He died in 2019 at age 89. “This scholarship is a wonderful tribute to the outstanding legacy of our former colleague Ken Karst, a first-rate scholar and lovely person, who devoted his career to supporting equality, social justice, and broadening access to legal education,” says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “I’m immensely grateful to his family for their thoughtful support in founding this scholarship, and I look forward to awarding support to amazing UCLA Law students who will further advance Ken’s passionate commitment to racial equality.” UCLA Law held a celebration of Karst’s life on June 26, 2019, which would have been his 90th birthday. The event was attended by more than 100 members of the UCLA Law family and generations of law school leaders, including six current or former deans or interim deans of the law school. It featured an array of personal reflections from Karst’s family, friends, and colleagues. “Ken Karst was a prince of man, a prolific legal scholar, gifted teacher, acclaimed expositor of constitutional law, and a sympathique human, revered for his wit and wisdom, kindness, and caring about all of the people law exists, or should exist, to serve,” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Karst’s longtime friend and colleague, said in a video that she recorded for the occasion. “Ken believed rules and doctrines shaped people’s lives, influenced people’s opportunities, and impacted people’s conceptions of their self-worth and their dignity. Thinking small meant remembering that scholarship should pay attention to how decisions impact the lives of actual people, especially the most vulnerable among us,” said Professor Adam Winkler, whom Karst mentored and held as a trusted collaborator over many years. “Ken sought not to mold students to his view. He sought to open them up to the views of others,” Winkler continued. “As a mentor, Ken changed the lives of those like me whom he took under his wing. As a teacher, Ken opened the minds of students and taught them not just how to be good lawyers, but how to be tolerant, respectful human beings. And as a scholar, Ken reshaped American constitutional law. Thanks to Ken today, there are thousands of former students and colleagues who are better people.”

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UCLA LAW AWARDS 15 POSTGRADUATE PUBLIC SERVICE FELLOWSHIPS TO 2021 GRADUATES Thanks to an important University of California system-wide initiative, along with the generosity of alumni and friends, UCLA School of Law awarded 15 postgraduate fellowships, including nine UC President’s Public Service Law Fellowships, to 2021 graduates who are committed to practicing public interest law. The competitively awarded one-year fellowships include stipends of $45,000 for each graduate and funding to help defray bar exam expenses. The fellowships enable graduates to work on behalf of underserved individuals, communities, and causes, as well as in government positions. “These fellowships help our graduates break into the field of public interest law, where job opportunities are scarce, and secure positions with top public interest employers,” says Brad Sears, UCLA Law’s associate dean of public interest law. “They give our students a first foot in the door.” This is the sixth year that UCLA Law graduates have received funding from the UC President’s Public Service Law Fellowships. Almost 90% of fellows funded through the program have transitioned from their fellowships to permanent public interest or government positions. In addition to the UC President’s Public Service Law Fellowships, funding for public service fellowships was provided by the Ahmanson Foundation; the Bruhn-Morris Family Foundation; Glen Sato ’87 and Hope Nakamura ’86; Evelyn Shimazaki ’84 and Naoki Shimazaki ’84; UCLA Law’s David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy, Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment, and Promise Institute for Human Rights; and cy pres funds. This year, four fellowships are supporting graduates who are working to address the eviction crisis in Los Angeles at the Eviction Defense Network and the Los Angeles Center for Community Law and Action. The fellows are providing much needed support to these organizations, which are struggling with the wave of evictions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Another three fellows are working on defending people in the criminal justice system. One works with youth as part of Bay Area Legal Aid’s Youth Justice Team. Two have joined the Gideon Fellowship Program to provide representation in underserved areas of the South, including fellowships with Mecklenburg Defenders in North Carolina and the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy (see story, page 37). Yet another two fellows are working on international human rights issues with the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and Reprieve US. In addition to these placements, fellows will also be working to combat elder fraud with Bet Tzedek legal services; addressing reproductive justice with Planned Parenthood; supporting community economic development in Los Angeles with Public Counsel; advancing LGBTQIA+ rights with Equality California; advocating for labor rights with the Warehouse Worker Resource Center; and promoting environmental justice with Communities for a Better Environment. Many of the host organizations also provide 50% of the base fellowship stipend, and almost all add on to the fellows’ pay and cover the cost of health insurance and benefits. “We are so appreciative of the funding from the UC President’s oﬀ ice that makes these fellowships possible, as well as the generosity of alums and friends,” says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “Throughout the year, we work hard to double the impact of the invaluable funding from the UC Presidential initiative by having it matched by donors to the law school and the fellows’ host organizations.” The UC President’s Public Service Law Fellowships are part of a UC Oﬀ ice of the President initiative to award $3 million to $5 million annually to make public service-oriented postgraduate work and summer positions more accessible to promising students at the UC’s four law schools — UCLA, UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Irvine.

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CELEBRATING RAND SCHRADER ’73: Gay Rights Trailblazer and UCLA Law Graduate Visitors to the 6500 block of Hollywood Blvd. find themselves surrounded by monuments to Los Angeles greatness. There are Walk of Fame stars for Frank Sinatra and Orson Welles. The building on the corner bears a massive mural featuring generations of Lakers legends. And above the intersection, a street sign recognizes another L.A. icon. It reads: “Schrader Bl.” That sign, and the two-block stretch of sidewalk and pavement between Sunset Blvd. and Hollywood Blvd. that it marks, pay homage to UCLA Law graduate Rand Schrader ’73. His exceptional life as an attorney, judge, and gay rights activist is now fondly recalled through Los Angeles landmarks and the memories of those who knew him. Schrader – an L.A. native who died of AIDS at age 48 in 1993 – was by all accounts brilliant, brave, kind, and deeply engaged. When he joined the office of the L.A. City Attorney in the mid-1970s, Schrader became the first openly gay prosecutor in the city and, quite likely, the country. His later appointment to the L.A. Municipal Court made him one of a few openly gay judges in the world – a trail originally blazed by his longtime friend and fellow UCLA Law alumnus Stephen Lachs ’63 (see story, page 74). Schrader, however, had always risen above the risks of being an openly gay man in a still largely intolerant professional world. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times shortly before his death, he spoke of the challenges. “I went to the dean of the law school at UCLA and asked him: ‘Will I be admitted to the bar if I’m openly gay?’” Schrader recalled. “That’s how frightened we were.” The hiring of openly gay lawyers in high-profile positions “just didn’t happen every day,” Lachs says. He and Schrader remained close friends through years of service on the court and in a tight-knit group dedicated to community activism, including as members of what is now the Los Angeles LGBT Center – which resides at 1625 Schrader Blvd. “When Randy got out of law school and ended up in the city attorney’s office, all of us in this little circle of

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friends were thrilled. It was a very exciting time.” Burt Pines was the city attorney who hired Schrader. It was a transformative move that helped modernize and diversify the oﬃce, but, at the time, the decision to bring on an openly gay lawyer carried plenty of perils. “The city attorney’s oﬃce was not a welcoming place in the past,” says Pines, who ran the department from 1973 to 1981 and later served as a judge on the L.A. Superior Court. Pines’ initial election The Los Angeles LGBT Center on Schrader Blvd.

signaled change for a workplace that was almost completely ﬁlled with

straight white male prosecutors who worked in tandem with a police force that was notorious for its raids on gay bars and bath houses. “I knew that Rand was going to be watched,” Pines continues. “We had a conversation about that. I told him that I was going to hire him, but it was risky, and he had to be careful because he should assume that the police would be attentive to what he was doing. As a trailblazer, there was a lot of pressure on him.” Fortunately, trouble never materialized, in part, Pines believes, because Schrader was such an impressive attorney: “Rand was hardworking, a team player, friendly, a good advocate for the prosecution in trials, and an excellent writer. He later became chief of our appellate section.” At the same time, Schrader’s combination of daring and excellence inspired many. “One of the long-term deputy city attorneys came to me and thanked me for hiring him,” Pines says. “He told me that it was the first time that he had any real interactions with a gay man, the first time he ever worked with a gay individual, and it really opened his eyes. It changed his perceptions. Rand also opened the door for more gay and lesbian lawyers to apply, because they saw that this was a welcoming place. He had a profound influence on the office. It was monumental.” Gov. Jerry Brown appointed Schrader to the bench in 1980, and he served with distinction until shortly before his death. All the while, he continued to practice the sort of understated activism and leading by example that had set him apart as a pathbreaking young prosecutor. During his decade-plus as a judge, Schrader often promoted the success of gay law students. He was a leader of groups including the Municipal Elections Committee of Los Angeles, or MECLA, an early major gay political action committee. He went public with his diagnosis while serving on the court to show that people with AIDS could remain active and accomplished. And he helped found the main Los Angeles County facility for HIV care, which was renamed the Rand Schrader Health and Research Clinic. Today, that center stands as one legacy commemorating Schrader’s incredible life. Another lives online: In a 1988 video that was posted by the foundation of Schrader’s longtime partner, philanthropist David Bohnett, Schrader speaks with trademark eloquence. “Aren’t we good enough? Haven’t we suffered enough? Are gay people, men and women, not as worthy of self-respect and power as others?” he asks in honoring the lives of friends who had died of AIDS. “There is only one memorial worthy of [all those] lost to this disease, and that is to go forward with courage and spirit, to claim the ultimate victory of human freedom.”

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Law Firms Establish Endowed Scholarships at UCLA Law Three prominent law firms recently established endowed scholarships at UCLA Law to support academically talented students who have overcome substantial hurdles on their journeys to gaining a legal education. The Cooley LLP Endowed Scholarship in Law, Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP Endowed Scholarship in Law, and Sheppard Mullin Endowed Scholarship in Law were established with endowed gifts to provide ongoing scholarship support. Each firm employs more than 30 UCLA Law alumni. The scholarships award tuition and aid to incoming students who demonstrate significant financial need and have confronted considerable obstacles in life such as socio-economic disadvantage, disability, being the first in their family to attend college, attending under-resourced schools, or other extensive hardships or challenges. Cooley partner Eric Jensen ’88 made the lead gift to establish that firm’s fund, and partners Pat Mitchell ’98, John Crittenden ’81, Patrick Gibbs ’94, Nick Hobson ’07, and Matthew Caplan ’08 joined with significant contributions. Cox, Castle & Nicholson partner Alicia Vaz, who earned her undergraduate degree from UCLA in 1997, led the launch of her firm’s gift to fund the scholarship. Sheppard Mullin partner and executive committee chairman Guy Halgren ’84 drove the effort to create the scholarship that his firm endowed. UCLA Law alumni at each firm have the opportunity to continue to make contributions to the scholarships during the Law Firm Challenge, the law school’s fundraising competition that raises nearly $2 million from more than 1,000 alumni at approximately 100 firms each year. Seven other firms that participate in the Law Firm Challenge and employ a significant number of UCLA Law alumni previously established existing scholarship funds at the law school: Paul Hastings, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, Irell & Manella, Latham & Watkins, Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Morrison & Foerster, and O’Melveny & Myers. “These scholarships are incredibly helpful in our ability to provide our incoming students access to a premier legal education,” says Rob Schwartz, assistant dean of admissions. “We thank these law firms for their inspiring contributions and ongoing support.”

UCLA Law Partners With Hueston Hennigan to Create PostGraduate Social Justice Fellowship In 2021, UCLA Law launched its participation in the Social Justice Legal Foundation, an incubator for the next generation of leading trial lawyers in the public sector, which launched with a $10 million pledge of support from Hueston Hennigan LLP. The foundation sponsors five promising law school graduates, including one from UCLA Law, as Hueston Hennigan Fellows for two-year terms. The mission of the foundation is “to combine public-interest issue expertise and elite academic resources with private-sector experience in order to bring a fresh approach to pursuing national trial work advancing social justice and equity.” The foundation brings together five leading U.S. law schools, top trial lawyers from the private sector and a lineup of star advisors, including judges, activists and scholars to vet and pursue groundbreaking cases. “This is an incredible opportunity for UCLA Law’s public interest graduates to receive incredible litigation training with leading national trial attorneys,” says Brad Sears, UCLA Law’s associate dean of public interest programs, who serves on the foundation’s board of advisors. Funded and created by the partners of Hueston Hennigan, the foundation also collaborates with the law schools at Columbia University, Northwestern University, Stanford University, and Yale University to identify pressing legal issues and to mentor and

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develop a new generation of trial lawyers in the public sector. Each law school has a representative on the foundation’s board, and the board selects an emerging leader from among each school’s graduates to serve a fully funded two-year fellowship. “We thank Hueston Hennigan for providing this incredible opportunity for tomorrow’s public interest leaders and for investing so meaningfully in potentially transformative social justice work,” says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. The foundation emphasizes trial work and seeks to collaborate with other social-justice organizations and bar associations to take some of the most difficult and important cases to trial. “I look forward to working with our advisors, fellows, staff and pro bono attorneys to take to trial some of the most important cases affecting social justice,” says John Hueston, chairman of the foundation’s board. To address evolving societal crises, the foundation will rotate its primary areas of attention every two years from among the following areas: economic justice, housing/homeless discrimination, LGBTQ+ rights, immigrant justice, Native American discrimination, voting rights and criminal justice reform. Its cases and focus areas will be informed by its executive leadership, academic partners, other social-justice organizations and fellows.

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Continuing a strong tradition of support for their alma mater, nearly 1,500 UCLA Law alumni who are lawyers at about 100 firms across the country participated in the 2021 Law Firm Challenge. Overall, the challenge raised roughly $2 million for UCLA Law scholarships and programs. The law school is most grateful to all of the firms and participants in the 19th annual challenge, in particular to the leaders who spearheaded the eﬀort at their individual firms. Tremendous thanks is also due to James D. C. Barrall ’75, the longtime Latham & Watkins partner who was instrumental in creating the Law Firm Challenge in 2002 and has been a steadfast champion of the law school’s success, including in his current position as Senior Fellow at the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy. Overall, 60% of UCLA Law alumni in the 104 participating firms participated in the challenge. 26 firms earned gold stars, meaning that more than half of the UCLA Law alumni partners at each firm made leadership gifts of $1,000 or more. A total of 64% of UCLA Law alumni who are partners took part in the challenge. Thank you! Tier 1 Firms of 30 or more alumni | Tier 2 Firms of 11-29 alumni | Tier 3 Firms of 2-10 alumni

SUPER STAR FIRMS IN 2021 (100% participation & Gold Star status)

TIER 1 Cooley Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher Paul Hastings

TIER 2 Ervin Cohen & Jessup Greenberg Glusker Milbank

TIER 3 Baker Burton & Lundy Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt Lewis Roca Maron & Sandler

Nutter Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones Shartsis Friese The Cook Law Firm

GOLD STAR FIRMS IN 2021 (50% or more of partners making gifts of $1,000+)

TIER 1 Cooley Gibson, Dunn, & Crutcher Paul Hastings

TIER 2 Buchalter Ervin, Cohen & Jessup Milbank Quinn Emanuel Skadden WilmerHale

TIER 3 Baker Burton & Lundy Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt Cadwalader The Cook Law Firm Daniels Fine Israel Schonbuch & Lebovits Hueston Hennigan Hoﬀman, Sabban & Watenmaker

FIRMS WITH 100 PERCENT PARTICIPATION IN 2021 TIER 1: Cooley Gibson, Dun, & Crutcher Cox, Castle & Nicholson O’Melveny Paul Hastings TIER 2 Ervin Cohen & Jessup Glaser Weil Greenberg Glusker

Jeﬀer, Mangels, Butler & Mitchell Maron & Sandler McDermott, Will & Emery Nutter Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones Sullivan & Cromwell Shartsis Friese O’Neil Shumener Odson Oh Stroock

Milbank Quinn Emanuel TIER 3 Baker Burton & Lundy Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt Brown Moskowitz & Kallen Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck Dentons

Enenstein Pham & Glass Hirschfeld Kraemer Levene, Neale, Bender, Yoo & Brill Lewis Roca Maron & Sandler McDermott, Will & Emery Mirman, Bubman & Nahmias

Nutter Osborn Maldeon Pachulski Stang Ziehl & Jones Parsus Polsinelli Shartsis Friese The Cook Law Firm

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1960 to 1969 John Liebman '61 retired 5 years ago and moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico but recently relocated to Marin County with his partner, Bonnie Kohl. He would welcome hearing from his old classmates. Walter Howald '65 was named the 2021 Newport Beach Citizen of the Year. Bob Weeks '67 and his wife Nancy were featured in the “Bruin Spotlight” in the UCLA Alumni Connection newsletter and spoke about their time at UCLA, their lives together, and their support for UCLA and alumni scholarships over the years.

August. He continues his mediation and arbitration practice and is enjoying his now four grandchildren! Kenneth Gibbs '74 successfully mediated a dispute between Kiewit Corp. and the Metropolitan Transit Authority using a seldom-used mediation technique often referred to as a "mini trial". Lynn Miller '74 joined autonomous trucking company Plus as General Counsel. Andrew Guilford '75 was honored by the Orange County Bar Association one year after his retirement as a federal judge.

Allan Morton '68 retired from family law litigation practice and has established a family law mediation practice in Santa Barbara.

Juan Ulloa '75 was featured in an article in the Calexico Chronicle about devising ways to get more people of color into law and onto the bench.

1970 to 1979

Marc Steinberg '75 recently published a new book entitled Rethinking Securities Law.

Steven Yslas '72 received the Ohtli Award presented by the Government of Mexico at the 2021 Hispanic National Bar Association Annual Convention. Arnold Gross '73 was selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer for 2022 in plaintiﬀ personal injury, a selection he has received every year since 2008. Gross was selected as a Best Lawyer for 2022 as well. Joe Hilberman '73 announced yet another potential Bruin! His daughter Charlotte gave birth to daughter Ruby in 82 UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | FALL 2021

Norman Tarle '76 joined Judicate West, one of California's leading providers of dispute resolution services. Rickey Ivie '77 was appointed to the Commission on Judicial Performance by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Vincent O'Neill '77 recently retired after a 43-year career, including 28 years on the Ventura County Superior Court.

1980 to 1989 James Ash '81 retired from Husch Blackwell LLP, where he had served in several leadership roles. In retirement, Jim and his wife Pam of 44 years are enjoying their granddaughter, and he continues to serve as an appointee of President

Obama to the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development. David A. Thompson '83 announced his official retirement from the California Court of Appeals in October. He will be taking a position with JAMS, a private provider of alternative dispute resolution services. Leslie Gilbert-Lurie '84 released an audiobook version of her highlyacclaimed Holocaust memoir Bending Toward the Sun: A Mother and Daughter Memoir. Daniel A. Olivas '84, the award-winning author of nine books of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, shared that Playwrights' Arena announced the cast of his play, Waiting. This is a shorter, pandemic version of his full-length play, Waiting for Godinez. Val Ackerman '85 was elected to the 2021 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame class. Lolita Buckner Inniss '86 was named Dean of University of Colorado Law School. She will become Colorado Law's first African American dean and second female to lead the school. James M. Burns '86 joined Dykema Gossett PLLC's Business Litigation practice group as a member in the firm's Washington, D.C. office. George Brown '88 was appointed executive director of the Stanford Center for Racial Justice at Stanford Law School.

Jeff Galvin '88 was selected to join the Executive Committee of the Anthony M. Kennedy American Inn of Court. Mark Miller '88 was appointed Senior Vice President of Investor Relations and Strategic Planning at Encompass Health. Arthur Rieman '88 established The Law Firm for Non-Proﬁts as a solo practice in August 1996 and this year marks the 25th anniversary for the now seven-person ﬁrm. Mary D. Rodriguez '88 received the Latina Commission Mari Carmen Aponte Award at the 2021 Hispanic National Bar Association Annual Convention. Thomas R. Sestanovich '88 joined Freeman Freeman & Smiley as partner in its real estate practice. Ronald Kaye '89 was appointed to serve on the L.A. County Superior Court. Kaye was previously a partner at Kaye, McLane, Bednarski, & Litt LLP.

1990 to 1999 Anthony Barron '90 was named head of the Litigation Department at Nixon Peabody. Lisa Halko '90 was reappointed Chief Counsel of the Department of Conservation, a role she's held since 2017. Nicole Healy '91 was appointed to be a judge in the San Mateo County Superior Court by Governor Gavin Newson.

Marlene Nowlin '91 was promoted to partner at Finch, Thornton & Baird, LLP. Dan Robbins '91 was elected to a twoyear term as President of the Uniform Law Commission, a leading nation law group. Rafael A. Sivilla-Jones '91 was appointed as a judge on the Santa Clara County Superior Court by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Matt Fawcett '92 was awarded Legal Momentum's "Man of Distinction" honor at their 16th Annual Women of Achievement Awards. Lisa Hone '92 joined the National Economic Council team to steer the Biden administration's broadband expansion eﬀorts. Patrick Marette '92 joined Miller Starr Regalia as senior counsel. Tony Rodriguez '92 was promoted to Vice President and Assistant General Counsel for Litigation at Kaiser Permanente after partnerships at Morrison & Foerster and Donahue Fitzgerald. James Farrell '93 joined Gibson Dunn as partner. Jeffrey Freedman '93 was appointed Chief Administrative Oﬃcer at Creative Artist Agency.

Judy Posner '93 became a partner in the appellate boutique of Benedon & Serlin, LLP. Liane Randolph '93 has been appointed as Chair of the California Air Resources Board.

Kevin Davis '94 was named to the advisory board of the Cornell Center for Real Estate and Finance.

Darren Green '94 was promoted to Professor of Entrepreneurship, Venture Capital and Practice at Northwestern Pritzker School of Law. Brad Small '94 joined Fox Rothschild as partner. Teri Vasquez '94 was appointed to the 17th Judicial District Court by Governor Jared Polis of Colorado. Hernán D. Vera '94 was nominated to a seat on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California. Michael Chang '95 was appointed a member of the Advisory Board at the University of California, Irvine Customer Experience Continuing Education Program. Lesley Freeman '95 was named the Hollywood Reporter's 2021 Raising the Bar honoree. Alexander Hoehn-Saric '95 was nominated by President Biden to be the Chair of the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Alexander Tamin '95 was named Assistant General Manager of the Los Angeles Angels. David Warner '95 was named Principal Counsel by the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. Alexander Lee '96 has been awarded the 2021 Dana Latham Memorial Award by the Los Angeles County Bar Association's Taxation Section for his outstanding contribution to the community and to the legal profession. Janai Nelson '96 was named the next president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

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Andres Almanzan '97 was re-elected to serve as Chief Executive Officer of Mounce, Green, Myers, Safi, Paxson, & Galatzan, P.C. Heather Anderson '97 joined ESPN as Vice President, Programming and Acquisitions. Prior to joining ESPN, she served as vice president and assistant chief counsel at The Walt Disney Company. Sarah Gill '97 was named ombudsman of FINRA. Dan Limerick '97 has been appointed to Chief Operating Officer of William Morris Endeavor. Tracy Rane '97 joined Ballard Spahr's Los Angeles office and is a member of the firm's Litigation Department and Media and Entertainment Law Group. David Frockt '98 was elected to his third term in the Washington State Senate, representing parts of Seattle and surrounding suburbs. Sandra Fujiyama '98 was named executive director of the Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship at University of Hawai'i at Mānoa's Shidler College of Business. Jamie Jefferson '98 joined Barg Coffin Lewis & Trapp as partner. Richard Johnson '98 joined Kaufman Borgeest & Ryan LLP's California office, where he will represent international and domestic insurers in complex coverage and litigation matters. Peter Nguyen '99 was appointed to the position of Associate Director - Systemwide Labor Relations at the University of California, Office of the President.

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Daniel Wu '99 joined O'Melveny & Myer's technology practice in Century City as partner.

2000 to 2009 Michael Weil '00 joined Morgan, Lewis & Bockius as partner in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley oﬃces. Peter Ballance '01 joined the Los Angeles oﬃce of Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP as a partner in the national Real Estate Group. Rasha Gerges Shields '01 was elected a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation.

Ur Jaddou '01, was confirmed by the U.S. Senate to head the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) making her the first woman and first person of Arab and Mexican descent to lead the agency. Alphonsie Nelson '01 was named Managing Partner of the Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer, P.A.'s Atlanta office. Johanna Schiavoni '02 joined the specialty appellate boutique firm California Appellate Law Group LLP, launching the firm's San Diego office. Lisa Laffer '03 was promoted to Principal and will join Regent Properties' executive team. Songhai Miguda-Armstead '03 has been selected to lead a "Care First, Jails Last" initiative to implement a broad set of alternatives to incarceration.

Phuong Phillips '03 was named one of Legal Momentum's 2021 honorees at their 16th Annual Women of Achievement Awards. Abigail Zelenski '03 was appointed the 2021 President the Philippine American Bar Association, the largest local association of Filipino American lawyers in the United States. Arti Bhimani '04 joined Liebert Cassidy Whitmore in their Los Angeles office as Senior Counsel. Phillip E. Carter '04 was appointed as Senior Director for Legal at Salesforce and is responsible for the legal team supporting the company's public sector sales in the U.S. and Canada. Cheryl M. Lott '04 began her term as a voting alumni Regent on the University of California Board of Regents. J. Carlos Orellana '04 became the District Counsel of the Santa Clara Valley Water District and advises the elected Board of Directors and staff. Julie Goldstein '05 was appointed President-Elect of the Bucks County Bar Association for a one-year term. Renée Delphin-Rodriguez '06 joined DLA Piper as a partner in the firm's Corporate practice based in San Francisco. Michael Rivera '06 joined Crosbie Gliner Schiffman Southard & Swanson as partner.

Matt Bonovich '07 was promoted to partner at Sheppard Mullin. He is a member of the Energy, Infrastructure, and Project Finance team and the Real Estate, Land Use, and Environmental Practice Group and is based in the Chicago Office. Patrick Hammon '07 joined McManis Faulkner as a partner. Matthew W. Harris '07 pursued a career in education after graduating from UCLA Law and is now Superintendent of Petaluma City Schools in Petaluma, California. Andrea Hwang '07, a partner at Ropes & Gray in New York, was profiled by Bloomberg Law in an article entitled “They've Got Next: Banking & Finance Fresh Face Andrea Hwang.” Adrianne Marshack '07 joined Goodwin's Complex Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice as partner in the firm's Santa Monica office. Katrina Mulligan '07 joined the BidenHarris Administration as the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict. Priscila Ocen '07 was appointed to the Committee on the Revision of the Penal Code by California Governor Gavin Newsom. Rishi Puri '07 was named a Shareholder at Lane Powell, where his practice focuses on labor and employment issues.

Ethan Goldman '08 was elected partner at Davis Polk, where he is a member of the firm's Tax practice in New York. Sean McKissick '08 joined the trust and litigation practice as of counsel in the Sacramento office of Downey Brand. Edwin Sadik '08 joined Kemp Klein in Troy, Michigan, as a shareholder. Sara Urch '08 was named Senior Assistant Attorney General for the Oregon Department of Justice where she works in the Natural Resources Section of the General Counsel Division focusing on the Portland Harbor Superfund cleanup project. Aaron Friberg '09 was promoted to counsel at Latham & Watkins. Tanya Greene '09, a partner at McGuireWoods LLP, was profiled by L.A. Biz as one of this year's Women of Influence honorees.

2010 to 2019 Elina Avakian '10, Senior Counsel for Snap Inc., was named the winner of the inaugural 2021 LA Times In-House Counsel Leadership Award in the MidSized Public Company category. Jenna Glassock '10 joined Lido Advisors LLC to expand the ﬁrm's wealth planning services. Sharlene Lee '10 was elected shareholder at Nevers, Palazzo, Packard, Wildermuth & Wynner PC. Ira Steinberg '10 was promoted to partner at the law ﬁrm of Greenberg Glusker LLP, where he practices complex commercial and business

litigation in the technology, real estate, entertainment, and media fields. Jeremy Avila '11 was appointed as Chief Counsel of the California Department of Aging. Katherine Bissett '11 was named partner at Cox, Castle & Nicholson. Alan Butler '11 was named Executive Director of the Board of Directors of the Electronic Privacy Information Center. Drew Harbur '11 joined Allen Matkins as partner. Darcy Meals '11 was appointed to a two-year term on the Equal Justice Works National Advisory Committee. Anne-Sophie Skrebers '11 was promoted to Head of Intellectual Property at the European Broadcasting Union. Daniel Belzer '12 was promoted to partner at Sheppard Mullin where he is a member of the firm's corporate practice group and is based in the Century City office. Alisha Burgin '12 joined the board of Bet Tzedek. Cara Dessert '12 was appointed to the Healthy California for All Commission by the Senate Rules Committee. Joshua Escovedo '12 was elected a shareholder at Weintraub Tobin. Kendall Johnson '12 was elected partner of Latham & Watkins in Century City, Los Angeles where she is a member of the firm's Corporate Department.

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Elizabeth Levin '12 was promoted to partner at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP where she is part of their real estate group. Karen Lorang '12 was named partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson.

Joshua McDaniel '12 was appointed to lead Harvard Law School's Religious Freedom Clinic.

Chris Myers '12 was elected to a partnership at Holland & Hart. Luis A. Patiño '12 was promoted to Vice President at ViacomCBS.

Abigail Stecker Romero '12 joined Arrow Electronics, Inc. as corporate counsel in Denver, specializing in employment matters. Brandon Golob '13 was named the 2020-2021 Professor of the Year for the University of California, Irvine School of Social Ecology. Tanya Franklin '13 was elected to become Board Member for the Los Angeles Uniﬁed School District 7. Nicole M. Howell '13 was promoted to counsel in the corporate group of Skadden's Los Angeles oﬃce. Sarah E. Moses '13 joined Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP, as counsel in their Entertainment Group.

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Zachary Thompson '13 was promoted to counsel at Latham & Watkins. David Kramer '14 was promoted to partner at Vicente Sederberg LLP. Ines Gillich '15 ﬁnished her post-PhD qualiﬁcation at the University of Cologne in Germany. Peter A. Griffin '15 was awarded the California Minority Counsel Program's Marci Rubin Emerging Diversity Leader Award, which is given to those who have demonstrated an outstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion. Jessica Krouner '15 joined Wasser, Cooperman & Mandles as an associate.

Addison H. DiSesa '18 joined Sacks Glazier Franklin & Lodise LLP as an associate focusing on high net worth trust, probate and conservatorship litigation. Kathleen Foley '18 has joined Goldstein & Russell, P.C., as an associate. Goldstein & Russell is an appellate litigation boutique with a focus on practice before the U.S. Supreme Court. Rebecca Ney Robinson '18 joined Eden Health as corporate counsel. Kelsey E. Clayton '19 joined Sullivan Hill as an associate litigation attorney in the San Diego oﬃce and is a member of the ﬁrm's Commercial and Business Litigation, Construction Law, and Insurance Coverage practice groups.

Delaram Peykar '15 joined Fox Rothschild LLP in its Los Angeles oﬃce as an associate in the Taxation & Wealth Planning Department.

Mathew A. Leonard '19 joined Carlton Fields as an associate in the Los Angeles oﬃce. He is a member of the ﬁrm's Business Litigation Practice.

Iricel Payano '16 has joined law ﬁrm Hoguet Newman Regal & Kenney as an associate in New York.

2020 to 2021

Geneva E. Thompson '16 has been appointed Assistant Secretary for Tribal Aﬀairs at the California Natural Resources Agency. Michael Zorkin '16 left Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP to launch his own litigation practice focusing on health care and business disputes. Brian Fink '17 wrote a legal guidebook for farm businesses on complying with federal food-safety and labeling laws, which has been published by the National Farmers Union under a grant from the U.S. Food & Drug Administration.

Harjot Dhillon '20 has been appointed Deputy District Attorney of Santa Clara County.

Nicole Englanoff Herzberg '20 joined Youngman Reitshtein as an associate. Ajwang Rading '20 has joined the race for a congressional seat to represent Silicon Valley (CA-18). Jeremy Weese '20 received an honorable mention award in the Beverly Hills Bar Association's 2021 “Rule of Law” writing competition for his UCLA Law Review article “The (Un)Holy Shield: Rethinking the Ministerial Exception”.

Vukie S. Mpofu '21 was named Manager of Hockey Operations and Legal Aﬀairs for the LA Kings. Penny Rosenberg '21 was named editor of the Albany Democrat-Herald, the Corvallis GazetteTimes, and the Lebanon Express newspapers in Oregon.

In Memoriam Karl J. Abert '61 Bolusanmi A. Akin-Olugbade '81 Stephen A. Behrendt '66 Robert A. Breeze ‘71 Peter R. Bregman '65 Douglas M. C. Bussey '75 Carlos C. Cabral '90 Richard A. Curnutt ‘64 Fred N. Dawson '68 Blanche Deight '71 Sally G. Disco '67 David H. Dolinko '80 Stephen B. Fainsbert '66 Lawrence H. Fein '67 Jean B. Fisler '52 Donald H. Freeman '60 Sanford N. Gruskin '54 Dean J. Guaneli '76 Anton W. Kerckhoﬀ '57 Joan Dempsey Klein '54 Edward M. Lynch '58 Philip S. Magaram '61 Frederic G. Marks '64

Thomas J. Mc Dermott '58 Kathy A. Mendez '86 Richard B. Miller '70 Stephen K. Miller '66 John R. Morrison '66 James A. Nakano '61 Stuart L. Olster '68 Lester G. Ostrov '67 Amber E. Phillips '11 Reginald K. Rabon '91 Henley L. Saltzburg '62 J. Terry Schwartz '74 Bretton G. Sciaroni '78 Bernard S. Shapiro '59 M. Ronald Sherman '66 Irving Shimer '57 Bernard P. Silverman '54 Stephen W. Solomon '64 Robert B. Steinberg '53 Maria Wilcox '21 Cameron R. Williams '69 Richard C. Wulliger '56 Barbara H. Yonemura '81

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IN MEMORIAM

IN MEMORIAM Joan Dempsey Klein ’54: Remembering a Trailblazer in the Law and Women’s Rights Joan Dempsey Klein ’54 was a member of UCLA Law’s third graduating class, the law school’s ﬁrst graduate to become a judge, and the ﬁrst

Maria Wilcox The UCLA Law community lost a longtime Bruin and a member of the M.L.S. Class of 2021 last January when Maria Wilcox passed away suddenly. Wilcox had a legacy of 35 years of service to UCLA where she was the associate director of the Early Academic Outreach Program. She also shared her talents with UCLA Admissions, Student Affairs, the College: Making It Happen initiative as an initial member, and statewide projects for the University of California Office of the President. At the law school, she was a member of inaugural Master of Legal Studies program, which is designed for non-law professionals looking to advance their career through the study of law. Maria was joined in that class by her daughter Miranda, a 2019 graduate of UCLA and the elected class speaker to represent the M.L.S. students at the 2021 commencement ceremony. In that moment, Miranda was able to remember her mother as someone beloved by her classmates and all her knew her, for her “life and joy, and lighting up every room she walked in.”

woman to serve as presiding justice on the California Court of Appeal. Her death on Christmas Eve 2020 at age 96 left UCLA Law reflecting on an incomparable alumna and lawyer who broke barriers. Klein earned a stellar reputation as a thoughtful jurist who served as a judge for more than 50 years – including 36 years on the state appeals court in Los Angeles – acted as a mentor to generations of women and other underrepresented people in the law, and maintained a close connection to her alma mater throughout her lifetime. A native Californian and lifelong athlete, Klein was a leading proponent of women’s rights, particularly in boosting equality and eliminating sexism in the legal profession. In the 1970s, she served as the founding president of the California Women Lawyers Association and co-founded the National Association of Women Judges, working to stem the gender biases that the then-small but growing number of women judges routinely faced. “Joan Dempsey Klein was, quite simply, an inspiration – she was a trailblazing judge, powerful thinker and ceaseless advocate for women’s rights,” says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “She was clear-eyed about the power and the pitfalls of the legal profession. And she made the profession – and the world – better and one meaningful step more equal.” Klein remained deeply connected to UCLA Law, speaking on panels, mentoring graduates and regularly participating in the life of the school. In 2013, she and her husband, Conrad Lee Klein, donated $1.025 million to the law school, creating the Justice Joan Dempsey Klein Scholarships in Law, supporting students with financial need and outstanding academic credentials who show a strong commitment to advocating for gender equality or to promoting the advancement of women in the law and society. Since then, 21 UCLA Law students have benefitted from the scholarship, including five during the current academic year. On making the gift, Klein said, “As I have said many times, my law school education at UCLA gave me a life — and a good life it has been.”

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IN MEMORIAM Professor David Dolinko ’80 David Dolinko ’80, a devoted member of the UCLA Law community for more than four decades and noted authority in criminal law and the philosophy of punishment, died in December 2020 due to complications from COVID-19. He was 72. A graduate of New York’s Bronx High School of Science and Columbia University, Dolinko came to UCLA in 1969 as a philosophy graduate student. Several years later, he entered the law school, where he was a standout student and served as editor-in-chief of the UCLA Law Review. There, he met classmate and fellow Vol. 27 editor Feris Greenberger ’80, and they later married, cementing a relationship that lasted for more than 40 years. After graduating from the law school in 1980, Dolinko clerked for Judge Harry Pregerson on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and then earned a Ph.D. in philosophy from UCLA in 1982. That year, he joined the UCLA Law faculty, where, for the next 35 years, he taught criminal law and constitutional criminal procedure, as well as seminars on the status of moral rights, problems of legal ethics, the nature of punishment, and the morality of capital punishment. A beloved professor known for his appreciation of music and abiding love of ducks, Dolinko mentored generations of students and received UCLA Law’s Rutter Award for Excellence in Teaching in 1998. He retired to emeritus status in 2017 but continued to teach and planned to offer a seminar on the philosophy of punishment next semester. “David was brilliant, intellectually serious, enormously knowledgeable, and also deeply caring – and he had an amazing dry wit and a wry, self-deprecating sense of humor. His work in the philosophy of criminal law stands out for its probing insight and incisiveness,” says UCLA Law Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin. “All of us are truly shocked and deeply saddened by his sudden and unexpected death.” Dolinko published dozens of articles and reviews, plus two books: The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Criminal Law, edited with John Deigh (Oxford University Press, 2011), and The Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations of Criminal Law (Routledge, 2014). Colleagues recall his ability to compellingly expound on some of his main areas of research, including the death penalty and retributive justice, noting that his sharp legal mind, generosity, and keen sense of justice benefitted them and their work while he inspired his students. California Court of Appeal Justice John Shepard Wiley Jr., a close friend and collaborator who served on the UCLA Law faculty for more than two decades, remembers Dolinko as “a true scholar, a beloved teacher, a profound thinker, and a really fun guy.” “David awed me,” Wiley says. “I still recall vividly the faculty tenure discussion about his article about the supposed right against self-incrimination. David’s work was so profound that it literally shocked some of our colleagues – they were reeling. They hated his conclusions but could not muster intelligible responses. I was so impressed by the power of David’s analysis. It remains a landmark work. “David was such a delight as a person: deeply himself, apparently mild, explosively passionate, perpetually self-critical, and perpetually self-deprecating. He was an aficionado of hamburgers and a scary driver. He once drove me to a midtown hamburger joint, and what I recall was not the hamburgers but his terrifying driving.” Distinguished Research Professor of Law Stephen Munzer also remembers joining the UCLA Law faculty alongside Dolinko in the early 1980s and sharing a close friendship and bond over the philosophy of law for more than 38 years. “David was extremely smart and wrote with admirable clarity. He was a generous critic and improved everything of mine he touched,” Munzer says. “David had a gift for rigorous analytical thinking and writing. His comments on works in progress were always helpful and never captious or mean-spirited. He was a superb contributor to discussion groups. The last such group we were in was with Herb Morris on Derek Parfit’s multi-volume work On What Matters. " “David was a generous and loyal friend. Even though he was abler than I, he made it a friendship of equals. That a guy from the Bronx High School of Science could find common ground with a boy from a small town in Kansas was no mean feat. I loved David’s unending fascination with ducks and his sympathy for them. A few days before David passed away, there came into my hands a cartoon that a showed a duck flying over a marsh, with a determined look on his face and his feet carrying a shotgun. David would have approved.”

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IN MEMORIAM Cruz Reynoso: UCLA Law Remembers a Colleague and Legal Trailblazer The loss of former California Supreme Court justice and UCLA Law Professor Cruz Reynoso, who died in May at age 90, left the UCLA Law community saddened. Members fondly recall a formidable but thoroughly humble and kind collaborator and mentor who rose from a childhood as the son of migrant workers to become California’s first Latino Supreme Court justice and then a treasured UCLA Law professor for 10 years in the 1990s. “Cruz Reynoso was beloved by generations of UCLA Law students who benefited from his extensive practice and judicial experience,” says Professor Laura E. Gómez, a close colleague. “He inspired Latino students and young lawyers by sharing his personal story – often punctuated with phrases and truisms in Spanish – as one of 11 children whose parents migrated from Mexico to rural Orange County, where he worked in the fields through high school.” Reynoso’s time at UCLA Law came during the latter part of a trailblazing career that culminated in 2000, when President Clinton awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom. After earning his B.A. from Pomona College and LL.B. from UC Berkeley School of Law, Reynoso worked in private practice in El Centro, California, and served on the California Fair Employment Practices Commission and in the California governor’s office. For two years, he was an attorney with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Washington, D.C. He then returned in 1968 to direct California Rural Legal Assistance for four years before shifting to work in the judiciary and academia. Reynoso taught at Imperial Valley College, UC Berkeley School of Law, UCLA Law, and the University of New Mexico School of Law. In 1976, Governor Jerry Brown appointed him to the California Court of Appeal. He served there until 1982, when Governor Brown elevated him to the state’s highest court. Marked by his firm stances on the rights of non-English speakers and other civil rights matters, Reynoso’s tenure on the Supreme Court was relatively short-lived, as strong political opposition swept him and other liberal justices off the court in 1987. He returned to private practice before arriving at UCLA Law in 1991. Teaching courses in remedies and professional responsibility, Reynoso bonded with students, who valued his mentorship as the faculty advisor of what were then named the Chicano/Latino Law Review, American Indian Law Students Association, and La Raza Law Students Association, plus moot court. In 1995, they elected him Professor of the Year. “Students loved him,” says Distinguished Professor of Law Emeritus and Interim Dean Emeritus Stephen Yeazell. “He was patient, he carefully prepared, he spent hours and hours with them – if you were a student, you could be in Cruz’s office and he’d talk to you about remedies or life or whatever you wanted.” Distinguished Research Professor Carole Goldberg remembers collaborating with Reynoso during the fraught period following the passage of Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California. That moment included his leadership of a 1997 “teach-in,” where UCLA Law community members shared their views on brewing admissions changes. “Cruz and I co-chaired the challenging committee that was charged with fashioning a law school admissions policy,” she says. “Because he never vilified those with opposing views, he kept temperatures down and enabled discussion of contentious matters. However, his everkindly manner coexisted with an unwavering insistence on achieving racial justice. His personal experience as well as his history of advocating for marginalized communities gave him a moral authority that I, and so many others, admired and respected.” Reynoso taught at the law school until 2001, when, after years of commuting to Southern California, he moved to UC Davis School of Law to live with his wife on their nearby ranch. Even with his impressive record, Reynoso is, in the end, he should be equally remembered for his steadfast collegiality. “I joined the UCLA Law faculty a few years after him,” Gómez recalls. “I was a newbie, and he was a former California Supreme Court justice, so I was in awe of him! Of course, he put me at ease immediately, and he became a lifetime mentor and friend.” Reynoso “had a lot not to be humble about, but he had no airs, no pretenses, he never puffed himself up,” Yeazell says. He remembers one instance when Reynoso saw that the microwave in the faculty lounge had gone missing and, rather than demand that it be replaced immediately, he simply went to the store and bought a new one for his colleagues to share. “It’s a small gesture, but that’s the kind of person he was – one of the world’s real saints. He was a gentle man, a humble man, and just a wonderful human being.”

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Students in the J.D. Class of 2024 who are the first in their families to earn a college degree.

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Faculty members recognized as among most cited in their disciplines, a UCLA Law high mark, in Sisk-Leiter analysis.

12,957 Media mentions, including opeds and news stories, citing UCLA Law faculty and research in 2020-21.

Ranking of UCLA Law among all law schools for median scholarly impact of faculty members.

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2020 graduates employed in bar-passage required or JD-advantaged long-term jobs at 10 months.

400 Approximate number of legal employers who visit UCLA Law annually for interviews, receptions, and networking events.

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