Nation, World + Society

Leading scholars, clergy and activists will convene at UCLA on May 3 and 4 to examine the ongoing influence of the late Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel.

Dean Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco co-wrote a New York Times op-ed arguing that if the justice system recognized the humanity of undocumented immigrants it would benefit all of society.

The new Veterans Benefits Legal Clinic helps veterans navigate what can be a complex path to receive the financial assistance for which they qualify.

Law professor Adam Winkler writes about the importance of Justice Kennedy, the relative value of precedent and the role of originalism, among other things to look out for during oral arguments about same-sex marriage.

UCLA law professor Stephen Bainbridge writes in the New York Times that when members of companies' boards of directors maximize shareholder value they are more accountable.

On Tuesday, April 28, the campus community, together with 2,000 K-12 students, will gather for events to commemorate the day 50 years ago when Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. visited UCLA and addressed nearly 5,000.

UCLA political scientist Lynn Vavreck is one of 32 winners nationwide of a new annual fellowship program from the Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law writes in an op-ed that data shows same-sex couples are far more likely to raise adopted or foster children.

The UCLA Center for World Health and its partners currently participate in 170 projects in 65 countries worldwide. It focuses not only on education, training and capacity building to improve health, but projects also include research and clinical care initiatives.

On the 40th anniversary of the Khmer Rouge’s proclamation of victory in Cambodia, UCLA demographer Patrick Heuveline has produced new estimates of the regime’s death toll between 1975 and 1979.

UCLA researchers analyzed state policies in nine categories that influence the health of immigrants and their families.

A social psychologist at UCLA Anderson explores how human behavior can be modified by bringing people closer to their future selves.

As part of their degree work, a team of UCLA Anderson students went to Italy and India to learn about LGBT policies and challenges that people face in the workplace there.

Political scientist Steven Spiegel says that the best way to forge a lasting security agreement with Iran is by working with Iran’s potential victims to make a new treaty effective.

Leon Panetta, whose formidable political career included eight terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and appointments as President Clinton's chief of staff and President Obama's secretary of defense and CIA director, delivered the annual Daniel Pearl Memorial Lecture.

Up to 57 percent of immigrants in California who are eligible under the executive actions are low-income and lack private health insurance, according to a study by UCLA and UC Berkeley researchers.

The information collected from this statistically representative sample of transgender-identified individuals led by researchers at the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law could be used to help craft better public policy.

The award will support the Teaching Schools Initiative, which has been based at the UCLA Community School and will be expanding to other sites.

This year marks the 20th year that Michael Dukakis, the former governor of Massachusetts and 1988 presidential hopeful, has been teaching at UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs.

Kal Raustiala writes in an op-ed that the jury was incorrect and that copyright law is intended to create incentives for artists to produce new creative works, not ensure basic fairness.

Despite a 2013 city ordinance to limit the number of medical marijuana businesses, UCLA researchers found that more than three times that number were operating in 2014.

First quarterly report for 2015 says the U.S. economy “looks like an island of stability in a very volatile world.”

UCLA’s Jody Heymann and Neal Baer co-author an op-ed that shows how far countries around the world have come in advancing equality and how far they still have to go.

A comprehensive report by UCLA’s World Policy Analysis Center details rights, laws and policies pertaining to gender equality in 197 countries and Beijing Platform signatories.

Burkle Center Director Kal Raustiala and Burkle Global Impact Initiative Director Brian Gott attended an event at the White House Tuesday at the invitation of President and Mrs. Obama for the announcement of a new initiative under the “Let Girls Learn” campaign.