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TRANSFORM EMPOWER ADVANCE EMPOWER AD- VANCE TRANSFORM ADVANCE FALL EMPOWER TRANS- 2016 UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW VOL. OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS FORM EMPOWER TRANSFORM ADVANCE 405 HILGARD AVENUE 39 BOX 951476 LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1476 ADVANCE TRANSFORM EMPOWER AD EM- POWER ADVANCE TRANSFORM MANCE TRANSFORM EMPOWERTHE WILLIAMS INSTITUTE 15 AT INNOVATION A ADVANCE TR EMEM- POWER ADVANCE ANSFORM EMPOWER ADVANCE ERwhat ADVANCE difference can you make in your EMPOWER lifetime? RESEARCH EER TRANSFORM AD- VANCElaw.ucla.edu/centennialcampaign TRANSFORM EMPOWERREAL-WORLD ADVANCE TRANS- FORM ADVANCE EMPOWER TRANSFORM EMPOW- ER TRANSFORM ADVANCEIMPACT EMPOWER ADVANCE TRANSFORM EMPOWER THETRANSFORM WILLIAMS INSTITUTE EMPOWER AT 15 EMPOWER TRANSFORM ADVANCE TRANSFORM EMPOWER ADVANCE TRANSFORM ADVANCE EM- POWER TRANSFORM EMPOWER TRANSFORM AD- Message from Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin Intellectual engagement and real-world impact Stay also are in plentiful supply in our Supreme Court Clinic. Astonishingly, the clinic wrote briefs on the merits in four U.S. Supreme Court cases in the 2015-16 term, giving students a view of the High Court that few Connected practitioners ever see. In fact, examples abound, both in these pages with ! and around the law school, of impact and intellectual engagement. This year, a group of UCLA Law students VISIT US: helped persuade President Obama to grant clemency to a prisoner serving a life sentence for a nonviolent drug K law.ucla.edu crime. Another student helped launch a medical device company that can dramatically reduce discomfort and LIKE US: costs for elderly patients. His team won $100,000 in K the inaugural Lowell Milken Institute-Sandler Prize facebook.com/UCLA-School-of-Law-Official for New Entrepreneurs, a contest designed to spur entrepreneurship across the university. FOLLOW US: At root, our community — and our commitment K twitter.com/ucla_law to going beyond the ordinary and challenging each other — fosters our core values. Our remarkably dedicated faculty teach classes in their homes as well as WATCH US: in our halls. Our highly-engaged alumni, now 16,000 K youtube.com/uclaschooloflaw strong, are living examples of engagement and impact. Events ranging from our all-school happy hours to our upcoming UCLA Law Women LEAD summit with CONNECT WITH ALUMNI: Chief Justice of the State of California Tani Cantil- K uclalawconnect.com I AM PROUD THAT UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW WAS THE Sakauye and other accomplished women in the law — FALL 2016 VOL. 39 FIRST IN THE COUNTRY TO CREATE A RESEARCH many of them alumnae — play a big role. © 2016 REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA CENTER FOCUSED ON SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND I am so grateful to be part of this community in NETWORK: THE LAW. Over the past 15 years the Williams Institute which intellectual engagement and real-world impact K linkedin.com/groups/UCLA-Law-Alumni UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW OFFICE OF EXTERNAL AFFAIRS on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and are not just ideals, but intrinsic to what we do and who BOX 951476 | LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90095-1476 Public Policy, whose research is cited in virtually every we are. JOIN OUR ALUMNAE NETWORK: judicial opinion about gay marriage, has played a signal Jennifer L. Mnookin CONTRIBUTORS Warmly, Dean and David G. Price role in spurring civil rights advances for lesbian, gay, K uclalawwomenlead.com Jeremy Deutchman and Dallas P. Price Ken Ross bisexual and transgender people across the country and Professor of Law the globe. The Williams Institute also has become the Bill Kisliuk GRAPHIC DESIGN Executive Director ETCH Creative leading incubator for an emerging field of study while Jennifer L. Mnookin of Communications creating remarkable opportunities for our students. Our Dean and David G. Price and Kathy Wyer PHOTOGRAPHY cover article chronicles this remarkable story. Dallas P. Price Professor of Law Director of Media Relations Todd Cheney Christelle Snow Frank Lopez Manager of Publications law.ucla.edu and Graphic Design UCLA LAW By the Numbers 91.3 The percentage of 2015 graduates working in full-time, long-term Bar Required and J.D. Advantage jobs by 10 months after graduation. 5,353 The number of first-year J.D. applicants in 2016-17. 291 The number of first-years enrolled in 2016-17. 13 The number of tenured faculty members ranked among the most cited in their fields. UCLA Law is 8th among all U.S. law schools for its number of ranked faculty. 5 U.S. News and World Report’s national ranking for UCLA’s environmental law program, led by the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. 1 The Hollywood Reporter’s ranking of UCLA Law for its entertainment law program, anchored by the new Ziffren Center for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law. FALL 2016 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE 1 contents 5 6 10 Free at Last Entertainment Capital A Banner Year Students pen clemency Kenneth Ziffren ’65 High Court hears four petition that spurs release makes $5M gift to launch cases briefed by students of nonviolent prisoner entertainment law center in UCLA Law’s Supreme Court Clinic driving progress in lgbt law and policy The Williams Institute at 15 In 2001, UCLA Law launched the Williams Institute, the first law school-based center to focus on sexual orientation and gender identity law and public policy. Fifteen years later, the institute continues to blaze new trails, produce rigorous, independent research and develop the next generation of scholars in the field. FALL 2016 VOL. 39 also inside... 48 4 Justice Breyer Pays a Visit 7 Sweet Results in Law Firm Challenge Start ‘Em Up Student start-up company 9 UCLA Law Awards 26 Post-Grad Fellowships wins $100,000 in inaugural LMI-Sandler Prize 23 UCLA Law Fellows on the Tenure Track 24 Thirteen Faculty Among the Most Cited 27 Faculty News 47 Faculty Books in Brief 59 Commencement 65 UCLA Law Women LEAD 70 Golden Reunion Celebration 72 Class Notes Learn more about how UCLA Law is shaping the legal 14 landscape through our impactful clinics, programs and research centers at law.ucla.edu/centennialcampaign TOP NEWS :: IN CONVERSATION: Justice Stephen Breyer at UCLA Law An intimate conversation with a Supreme Court justice is guardian of the Constitution — proving once again that a rare opportunity, one that several UCLA School of Law studying law is not only reading law books, but also knowing students enjoyed when United States Supreme Court Justice the people behind the law books.” Stephen Breyer visited the school in September 2015. Cat Zhang ’17, managing editor for UCLA Law Review, First, Justice Breyer participated in a wide-ranging said, “He was not only insightful, funny and engaging, but dialogue with Dean Jennifer L. Mnookin before a packed also genuinely interested in having a conversation with us.” audience of several hundred students and faculty at UCLA The justice even took time to pose for a cellphone photo with every student. During his Q & A with Dean Mnookin, Justice Breyer, who was named to the Court by President Bill Clinton in 1994, offered his thoughts on the significance of education in a global society, his relationships with his fellow jurists and the role of politics in the Court. Justice Breyer said the Court provides a unique vantage point to consider the topic of globalization. He emphasized that the problems that lawyers will address in years to come are increasingly generated by a world that is interdependent and interconnected. U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer at UCLA School of Law in September 2015. Education is a global necessity, he said, particularly Law’s Hugh and Hazel Darling Law Library in the kick-off for women. “Many of the problems that face us will be of the Conversations with the Dean series. Afterwards, about a lessened, if perhaps not solved, by women in many countries dozen lucky students joined the justice, Dean Mnookin, and getting an education,” he said. “I can think of very few several faculty members for an informal conversation and a things that are more important.” private lunch. He also touched on the collegial relationships he shares Students, who were selected to meet with Justice Breyer with his fellow jurists on a Court that some perceive to be based on an application and a short essay on why they sought riven by competing ideologies. “I’ve never heard, in that to participate, said the visit was inspiring. conference room, one judge raise his voice in anger about “Meeting Justice Breyer was a thrilling experience in another. It just doesn’t happen,” he said. many ways,” said Julio Oyhanarte ’16, who participated in The visit was the second to UCLA Law for the lunch gathering. “My grandfather was a Supreme Court Justice Breyer. Justice in Argentina, and knowing another justice brought back fond memories. It is an honor to be part of a university A video of “Conversations with the Dean: Supreme that invites one of the most important judges in the world, a Court Justice Stephen Breyer” can be viewed at YouTube.com/UCLASchoolofLaw. 4 UCLA LAW MAGAZINE | FALL 2016 Epstein Program Students Help Earn Clemency for Inmate UCLA School of Law students played a key role in unlocking “ I could not think of more important work the prison doors for Darnell Crookshank, who had served 20 years of a life sentence in prison after being convicted for a for our Criminal Defense Clinic to pursue nonviolent drug crime. than helping to win his freedom.” On Aug. 5, President Barack Obama commuted Crookshank’s sentence and those of 213 other prisoners in an historic use of the powers of executive clemency to address injustices caused by outdated mandatory minimum sentencing laws. Crookshank’s clemency peti- tion was researched, drafted and submitted by students working in the school’s Criminal Defense Clinic under the guidance of professors Ingrid Eagly and Julie Cramer.