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MOMENTUM the UCLA CENTENNIAL CAMPAIGN BUILDING MOMENTUM TOGETHER UCLA Law Launches $150 Million Campaign RESHAPING THE CURRICULUM UCLA Law’s Innovative Reforms Connect Classroom and Clinic contents 19 21 92 GIFT FUNDS STUDENT RESHAPING THE EMMETT INSTITUTE ENTREPRENEURSHIP CURRICULUM ESTABLISHED COMPETITION UCLA Law’s innovative Leadership gift Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler reforms connect enhances research and Prize for New Entrepreneurs will classroom and clinic teaching on critical recognize student innovation environmental issues BUILDING MOMENTUM TOGETHER UCLA Law Launches $150 Million Campaign Through the Centennial Campaign for UCLA School of Law, a $150 million fundraising effort and the largest in the school’s history, the law school seeks to harness the power of private philanthropy to increase student scholarships; support curricular innovation; attract and retain faculty members; and advance the research, outreach and policy work of the law school’s programs, centers and institutes. UCLA Law will leverage the energy, creativity and intellectual rigor of America’s youngest top-ranked law school and its alumni and supporters to transform the educational experience, catalyze breakthrough research and foster real-world impact that strengthens communities and improves people’s lives. 100 FALL 2014 VOL. 37 NO. 1 also inside... 2 Message from the Dean 28 STUDENTS ADDRESS U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stevens HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS Delivers Commencement Address Work of the International 58 Faculty Scholarship Human Rights Clinic focuses on human rights violations in 78 Immigration Outside the Law: the United States A Q&A with Professor Motomura 80 U.S. Supreme Court Justices Sotomayor and O’Connor Visit UCLA Law 82 38th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium 83 Regents Lectures with Dan Emmett and Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw 95 Williams Institute Expands International Programs 106 Alumni of the Year Awards 112 UCLA Law Hosts “Bruins on the Bench” 114 Reunions 121 Class Notes Learn more about how UCLA Law is shaping the legal landscape through our impactful clinics, programs and research centers at law.ucla.edu/centennialcampaign UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | 1 and mentoring as well as seminal scholarship. As part of this vision, UCLA Law committed itself to being impactful in the world, converting its excellence in law into a quest for justice. Ever since its inception, UCLA School of Law has been true to these founding principles: offering a transformative educa- tional experience, empowering the best and brightest to think creatively about law and policy, and advancing human welfare by nurturing the conditions for a fair and inclusive society. Today, we are the youngest law school in the top 20. Our trajectory has been remarkable, as bold as the vision for UCLA Law itself, and now we are embarking on another ambitious initiative, a $150 million campaign that will be the largest in the school’s history. This effort is part of the Centennial Cam- paign for UCLA, a campus-wide commitment to honor our past while looking to our future. With continuing decreases in state support, we find ourselves at a pivotal moment when our tradition of access and opportunity must increasingly be realized through private means. As you will see in our feature article, our law school campaign is all about the students— offering them scholarship support, providing them with a dynamic and responsive curriculum, giving them the oppor- tunity to study with world-class faculty and allowing them to participate in the most pressing debates of the day through our highly acclaimed programs, centers and institutes. Through- out this issue, you will see examples of alumni and friends who are making a difference by endowing scholarships and chairs, by funding law and policy work with direct impact and by providing post-graduate opportunities to our students. In this special edition of UCLA Law Magazine, you will see examples of our ongoing efforts to train the next gener- ation of leaders in law. We always have been at the forefront of educational innovation, pioneering clinical programs and transactional skills training as well as developing significant specializations in fields like business law, critical race studies, entertainment law, law and philosophy, and public interest. It all starts with an idea. We are introducing a number of curricular reforms that UCLA School of Law began in a burst of post-war opti- will enhance the learning experience and better prepare our mism. Fueled by a renewed faith in our democratic ideals, the students for the challenges of practice. From the day that people of Southern California wanted a law school that would students arrive at the law school, they will understand their serve the poor boys and girls of East Los Angeles who could privileges and obligations as legal professionals. During their not afford to go to private school or travel north to Berke- law school careers, they will master knowledge and skills that ley. Already dedicated to serving the best and the brightest will enable them to pursue their chosen paths, whether as civil Istudents from all walks of life, the law school quickly recruited litigators, criminal trial lawyers or transactional attorneys. a stellar faculty who would provide high-quality teaching When students leave our law school, they will become part 2 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE MOMENTUM of a great network of alumni who can become a tremendous power and reach of our reputation. Here, I want to highlight a resource in achieving careers of distinction. few noteworthy events that gave our students an extraordinary This virtuous cycle, so vital to our students’ wellbeing, opportunity to interact with jurists of the utmost distinction. cannot take place without the engagement of our faculty, the This year, we welcomed three U.S. Supreme Court justices to hard work of our staff and the support of our alumni and the law school. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and Justice Sandra friends. As you will discover in the pages that follow, our Day O’Connor both met with students during visits to UCLA faculty are at the top of their game, earning recognition for Law and graciously shared words of wisdom during Q&A distinguished teaching, writing highly regarded books and discussions. We also were honored to host Justice John Paul articles, participating in courtroom controversies and testify- Stevens, who delivered the law school’s 63rd Commencement ing at hearings. Our program directors are actively involved in address. I have no doubt that our students will look back on ensuring that students can participate in the timely policy de- these occasions for years to come and remember them as bates that will shape our future—from climate change and the highlights of their time at UCLA Law. environment, to food safety and security, to movements for This year, we also had the great pleasure of honoring equality and access, to entrepreneurial experiments and more. many of our alumni who serve on the bench. We welcomed With unparalleled entrée to outstanding professors, quality Judge Kim McLane Wardlaw ’79 of the U.S. Court of Ap- instruction, and unique programs, centers and institutes, peals for the Ninth Circuit for a two-week visit and public students go on to accomplish great things. The articles in this Regents Lecture this spring. In conjunction with her time issue highlight some of the prizes, awards and fellowships that at the law school, we hosted a special sitting of the Ninth our current students and recent graduates have received. Circuit, at which Judge Wardlaw and her fellow UCLA Law graduates—Chief Judge Alex Kozinski ’75, Judge Sandra Segal Ikuta ’88, Judge Dorothy Nelson ’53 and Judge Jac- queline Nguyen ’91—heard oral arguments in the Cappello “ In this special edition of Courtroom. While Judge Wardlaw was here, we also held our first ever “Bruins on the Bench” event to recognize all of our UCLA Law Magazine, you alumni who have dedicated themselves to a life of service in the judiciary. will see examples of our I am confident that you will find the articles in this issue of the magazine as impressive and inspiring as I do. These ongoing efforts to train stories make clear that we all have the power to make a differ- the next generation of ence in our lifetime and to be a force for change in the world. Each of us is invested in UCLA Law’s success, and every leaders in law.” contribution counts. I appreciate your ongoing loyalty and support. With your help, we can ensure that the legacy of UCLA School of Law remains as unique and compelling today as it And our story on recent judicial appointments, our class notes was at our founding. and the long lists of Super Lawyers and Rising Stars make With warm regards, clear that this excellence is sustained throughout long and distinguished careers. UCLA Law justly deserves its reputation as a trend- setter in legal education. This reputation in turn attracts top RACHEL F. MORAN legal thinkers who want to be part of this exciting intellec- Dean and Michael J. Connell Distinguished tual community. As you read about some of the stimulating Professor of Law presentations that we have hosted, you will get a sense of the UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | 3 BUILDING MOMENTUM TOGETHER 4 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE MOMENTUM UCLA Law Launches $150 Million Campaign “UCLA Law was born in a burst of post-World War II optimism and possibility,” says Dean Rachel F. Moran. “In France, they called the period between 1945 and 1975 ‘the Glorious 30’ because of high rates of growth and renewed commitment to the public sphere, and the term is apt as a description of those three decades in the United States, as well.” The time was a high-water mark for both investment in society and intergenerational mobility, and UCLA Law—founded in 1949— enabled students to take full advantage of both.

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