TRANSFORM EMPOWER ADVANCE EMPOWER AD VANCE TRANSFORM ADVANCEFALL EMPOWER TRANS 2015 VOL. UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW FORM EMPOWER 38 TRANSFORM ADVANCE OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS 405 HILGARD AVENUE BOX 951476 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1476 ADVANCE TRANSFORM EMPOWER AD EM POWER ADVANCE | TRANSFORM MANCE A NEW LEADER EMERGES a new Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin Takes the Helm TRANSFORM EMPOWER leader A ADVANCE TR EMEM- POWER ADVANCE ANSFORM emerges EMPOWER ADVANCE ERwhat ADVANCE difference can you make in EMPOWERyour lifetime? 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Mnookin Takes the Helm JOIN OUR ALUMNAE NETWORK: UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS BOX 951476 | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1476 UCLA School of Law welcomes Jennifer L. Mnookin as the law school’s ninth—and third K uclalawwomenlead.com female—dean. A leading evidence scholar and a member of the UCLA Law faculty since 2005, Jennifer L. Mnookin Frank Lopez PHOTOGRAPHY Dean and David G. Price Manager of Phil Channing she assumed the position in August. She shares her path to the deanship and her goals for and Dallas P. Price Publications Professor of Law and Graphic Design Todd Cheney catalyzing UCLA Law’s forward momentum. Through her leadership, and with her particular ASUCLA Photography Lauri L. Gavel IE Design + mix of energy, enthusiasm, charisma, intellect and impressive background and experience, Executive Director Communications Mark Robert Halper of Communications Contributing Graphic Photography UCLA Law is poised for even greater success. Design Firm Sara Rouche Dave Lauridsen Communications Officer Photography CONTRIBUTORS Don Liebig Rebekah Albrecht Michael Agresta ASUCLA Photography Contributing Graphic Jeremy Deutchman law.ucla.edu Designer Rich Schmitt Photography 223601_Cover_r1.indd 2 9/5/15 10:47 AM FALL 2015 VOL. 38 also inside... 83 2 Message from the Dean 10 Speech Matters: A Q&A with Transnational Program on Professor Shiffrin Criminal Justice Launches New program engages students 62 UCLA Law Receives $2 Million Gift and the international law from Meyer Luskin scholarly community 67 USPTO Director Michelle K. Lee Visits UCLA Law 75 39th Annual UCLA Entertainment Symposium 88 Williams Institute Research Impacts Marriage Equality 94 Commencement Address by Martine Rothblatt ’81 98 Launch of Attorney Incubator Program 109 Alumni of the Year Awards 110 UCLA Law Hosts Distinguished Alumni Lecture Series 116 Reunions 122 Class Notes Learn more about how UCLA Law is shaping the legal landscape through our impactful 48 clinics, programs and research centers at law.ucla.edu/centennialcampaign 223601_Text_r1.indd 1 9/5/15 12:26 PM Message from Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin tradition and rewards innovation. I deeply admire the school’s unwavering commitment to excellence, access and opportunity. This is a place that simultaneously and successfully engages in today’s most pressing civic issues and nurtures scholarship of the highest order—a place that poses difficult questions and then relishes in answering them. I have also developed a profound respect for those who are part of our remarkable UCLA Law community. There is a distinctive alchemy to our mix of faculty, students, alumni and supporters, which, in combination, makes our environment genuinely dynamic and full of possibility. Our institution both celebrates difference and prioritizes finding common ground. Together, in a very short time, we have built the youngest of the nation’s top law schools and created a culture that is elite but not elitist. The following pages are a perfect reflection of what makes UCLA Law so special. In this issue of UCLA Law Magazine, you will read about the work of our faculty and its significant role in addressing challenging questions that impact society and policy. From direct AS AN EVIDENCE SCHOLAR, I have spent my citations by the U.S. Supreme Court to novel research career thinking about questions of proof, evaluating the on the representation of immigrants, my colleagues’ probative value of different kinds of forensic science, and work has the power to shape policy and legislation and thinking more generally about how scientific knowledge to change lives. The work of the faculty in the classroom advances or debunks assertions of truth. Though is no less important and is also life-altering. Our faculty “truth” can be an elusive and subjective goal, here is one members continue to be recognized with the highest evidentiary conclusion I can make without equivocation: honors for their role in inspiring the next generation of I am both fortunate and thrilled to assume the deanship practitioners and advocates. of one of our nation’s finest law schools. Our talented students are learning from the best, and During more than a decade as a faculty member it’s no surprise that their achievements are both plentiful at UCLA Law, I have come to love the institution and impressive. In addition to the awards, scholarships deeply. I value our culture and the way it both honors and fellowships they have received, they are honing their 2 UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | FALL 2015 223601_Text_r1.indd 2 9/5/15 12:26 PM MOMENTUM “I deeply admire the school’s unwavering commitment to excellence, access and opportunity.This is a place that simultaneously and successfully engages in today’s most pressing civic issues and nurtures scholarship of the highest order—a place that poses difficult questions and then relishes in answering them.” practical skills while effecting change. From striving Scholarship support provides access to a quality legal to limit the use of solitary confinement in California’s education for all students of merit, regardless of resources, juvenile justice facilities to efforts to assist detained and lets us compete for the very strongest students. immigrants with asylum claims and drafting a guide to Support of our centers, programs and clinics fosters the aid Syrian refugees, UCLA Law students are making a high-quality intellectual experience for which UCLA difference both locally and globally. Law is known. The backing of our alumni and friends These pages also contain many examples of how our is absolutely critical in order to advance our mission as a alumni are flourishing as well, and how their engagement first-rate public law school where access and innovation with the school continues well after graduation. go hand in hand. Distinguished alumni participated in major law school I am extremely proud of what each of us contributes events this year, including Senator Kirsten Gillibrand to the ambitions and achievements that make UCLA ’91, who helped us launch UCLA Law Women LEAD, Law an exceptional institution. As dean, I am excited and Martine Rothblatt ’81, who delivered a captivating about the work we will continue to do together, providing Regents Lecture on cyberconsciousness as well as an a stellar education, producing first-rate research and inspirational 64th Commencement address. In this new knowledge, advancing the legal profession, and past year, in addition to launching UCLA Law Women contributing to our local community as well as nationally LEAD, the law school initiative aimed at empowering and even globally. Thank you for entrusting me with such and supporting UCLA Law alumnae throughout an important and meaningful responsibility. I am deeply their careers, the law school also initiated UCLA Law grateful for your support and enormously excited for the Unite and UCLA Law Connect, programs to help journey ahead. alumni connect and foster networking and mentoring opportunities. Our alumni were instrumental in the Warmly, conception and implementation of these important new programs, and I’m looking forward to seeing how they will grow and flourish. I hope you are also moved and inspired by the stories of immense generosity from our graduates and Jennifer L. Mnookin other friends contained in these pages. Gifts to endow Dean and David G. Price and Dallas P. Price faculty chairs allow us to promote academic excellence. Professor of Law FALL 2015 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE 3 223601_Text.indd 3 9/2/15 4:59 AM FACULTY :: NEWS Professor Kang Appointed UCLA’s Inaugural Vice Chancellor for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Professor Jerry Kang was ap- and the Japanese American internment and its lessons for a pointed as UCLA’s inaugural vice post-9/11 world. He is co-author of a book on the internment, chancellor for equity, diversity Race, Rights and Reparation: Law and the Japanese American and inclusion, and he assumed Internment. Professor Kang also writes in the field of com- the position on July 1. In this munications law on topics ranging from information privacy capacity, he will serve as the to virtual communities to net neutrality. He is the author of senior campus official respon- Communications Law and Policy: Cases and Materials, a lead- sible for promoting equity and ing casebook in the field. fundamental fairness at UCLA, Professor Kang helped to establish the law school’s Crit- leading and coordinating efforts ical Race Studies Program and served as its founding co-di- to create a diverse, inclusive and rector.