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A UCLA study found that many countries have taken important steps to align national laws with a 2006 treaty, but others have not gone far enough.

Q&A with UCLA’s Adam Romero and co-author Abbie Goldberg about their new book on marriage dissolution.

"With your degree today, you have the power to turn the law into hope," Bet Tzedek Legal Services president and CEO Jessie Kornberg told graduates.

The Koreatown-based program will help students and their families with asylum and related claims.

Activist artists including Aloe Blacc, Maya Jupiter, Chuck D and Luis Rodriquez are among the advocates on campus at the “Connecting Art and Law for Liberation” festival.

Daniel Bussel and Kenneth Klee played key roles in the landmark debt deal that will bring billions of dollars of relief to the island’s economy.

Toxic pesticides are widely used in California agriculture to control soil pests for strawberry, almond, citrus and other high-value crops.

Legal scholars on Zócalo/UCLA Downtown panel see corporations and defendants gaining protection, while reproductive rights and affirmative action wither.

In its decade of work, the clinic has trained 400-plus volunteers and helped more than 2,800 people secure things like employment, housing, and education.

Law school dean Jennifer Mnookin and other law schools’ deans advocate for lowering the cut score to pass the bar exam.

E. Tendayi Achiume serves as the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance.

The report highlights needed improvement in housing policies and employment opportunities to ensure that incarcerated women and their families successfully adapt.

UCLA’s Carole Goldberg ‘has singlehandedly created an army of well-trained lawyers, judges and academics.’

UCLA’s Luskin Center for History and Policy welcomed community leaders to discuss Proposition 10 as part of the ongoing “Why History Matters” series.

During a talk with law school dean Jennifer Mnookin, Kagan, who is the 10th Supreme Court justice to come to the school, shared wisdom from her distinguished career.

A founding gift from the couple’s foundation established the program in 2013; it is already one of the preeminent programs of its kind.

Taylor de Laveaga was the third UCLA Law student in little more than a year to argue before a federal appeals court under the guidance of professor Eugene Volokh.

Guidance from legal researchers could strengthen California climate policy by helping policymakers further reduce carbon pollution from transport fuels.

Research by Joanna Schwartz played a key role in a decision rejecting the use of qualified immunity to defend police officers from a lawsuit that arose out of their official conduct.

The donation, which builds on a decade of support from the foundation led by Dan and Rae Emmett, includes $1.8 million and a challenge: The foundation will match one-to-one gifts made by other donors up to $2.5 million.

Luis Perez has finally won the right to remain in the United States permanently, thanks to assistance from many members of the law school family.

The “Lights. Camera. Reaction.: The Art of Impact in Entertainment” conference focused on artists and lawyers who use entertainment to promote stories of social injustice.

Law professor Adam Winkler says when the Supreme Court expands rights for corporations it becomes harder for elected representatives to regulate business for the public good.

UCLA Law professor’s acclaimed new book illuminates the long drive by corporations to gain constitutional rights normally afforded to people.

UCLA Law alumnus is dedicated to ending the practice of prosecuting and incarcerating juveniles in the adult system.