Opinion + Voices

Dr. Brad Spellberg is a professor of medicine at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is the co-author of "Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them."...

Victor Narro is a UCLA professor of labor and workplace studies, and an adjunct professor of law. His op-ed appeared Dec. 17, 2013, in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.   In my position as a labor professor and researcher at UCLA, I have...

Dr. Jody Heymann, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, asserts that we should shift our health care spending to more prevention to increase lifespans and save money.

Abigail C. Saguy, associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA sociology department, is the author of "What’s Wrong with Fat?" (Oxford University Press, 2013). This piece was published Dec. 17 on the Zocalo Public Square website....

Kal Raustiala is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. Raustiala's research focuses on international law and politics and on intellectual property. Christopher Jon Sprigman is a professor at the New York University School of Law and...

Mike Rose is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.” This piece was the first of three on teacher education...

David Gere is a professor in the world arts and cultures/dance department and director of the Art and Global Health Center at UCLA. His essay appeared on the Zocalo Public Square website on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day.   Twenty-five years ago,...

Ethan Elkind is the Bank of America Climate Policy Associate at the UC Berkeley and UCLA schools of law and serves as the lead author of UCLA-UC Berkeley’s grant-funded series of policy reports on business solutions to combat climate change....

Shlomo Benartzi is a UCLA Anderson professor, chief behavioral economist of the AllianzGI Center for Behavioral Finance and vice chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Neuroscience and Behaviour. His...

Robert E. Buswell Jr. (left) holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at the College of Letters and Science at UCLA. He is also Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies and founding director of the Center for Buddhist Studies....

Ronald C. White Jr., a visiting professor of history at UCLA and a fellow at the Huntington Library, is the author of the book, "A. Lincoln: A Biography." This op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 17. The celebration of...

Timothy Spangler, who teaches at UCLA School of Law, is an expert on financial regulation in the United States and Europe and corporate law. He advises on the structuring and operation of a wide variety of investment funds, including...

David Shulman is a retired Wall Street executive who is now a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast. This op-ed appeared in U.S. News and World Report on Wednesday, Oct. 23.     If our country were run as business, both...

Stephen Oliner is a senior fellow at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is also a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He was formerly an associate director in the division of...

Brenda Stevenson is a UCLA professor of history and African American studies, as well as author of "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins...

Zocalo Public Square recently invited economist M.V. Lee Badgett, research director of UCLA’s Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of...

Sean Young is a family medicine professor and director of innovation at the center for behavioral and addiction medicine at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He writes about topics related to psychology, technology and public health/medicine at...

Mavis Wong is a fifth-year UCLA graduate student studying membranes for desalinization of water. This article was originally published in the Huffington Post on Sept. 26, 2013.   All the organizing and emailing for UCLA Volunteer Day...

Adam Winkler is a professor at UCLA School of Law and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America." This op-ed appeared in the New York Daily News Sunday, Sept. 22.   Another tragic mass shooting, another round...

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco is dean and a distinguished professor of education at UCLA's Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. He is the author of many books including "Educating the Whole Child for the Whole World." This op-ed appeared...

Mike Rose is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and the author of several books, most recently “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education," and “Public Education Under...

Barry O’Neill is a professor of political science, whose work applies game theory to study foreign policy decisions, with a view to preventing war. He is the author of "Honor, Symbols, and War" (University of Michigan Press, 1999), which won the...

John Laslett (far left) is a research professor of history and author of "Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010." Chris Tilly is a professor of urban planning and director of the Institute for Research on Labor and...

UCLA professor Glen MacDonald notes that threats to water supplies and air quality by California's Rim Fire and the earlier Black Forest Fire in Colorado should send city dwellers an important message: even distant wildfire is part of their lives.

Retired general Wesley Clark, the former supreme commander of NATO, led alliance military forces in the Kosovo war in 1999. He is a senior fellow at the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA. This commentary appeared in Zocalo Public...