UCLA LAW The Magazine of UCLA School of Law Box 951476 Los Angeles, CA 90095-1476 VOLUME 31 VOLUME | NUMBER 1 NOW IS UCLA THEUCLA SCHOOL TIME OF LAW ALUMNI AND FRIENDS LAW GIVING BACK AND BREAKING RECORDS! ASTOUNDING RESULTS IN 2008 FOR PRIVATE FUNDRAISING Thanks to momentum built up over the past few years for the $100 MILLION CAMPAIGN FOR UCLA SCHOOL OF LAW: UCLA Law closed biggest fundraising year ever in 2008 – BRINGING IN MORE THAN $30 MILLION IN PRIVATE SUPPORT FROM ALUMNI AND FRIENDS. UCLA Law has MORE THAN DOUBLED THE NUMBER OF ENDOWED CHAIRS to recruit and retain faculty. The ALUMNI PARTICIPATION RATE for alumni giving back has exploded – UP FROM 16 PERCENT F SIX YEARS AGO TO 31 PERCENT THIS YEAR! This puts UCLA Law alumni in the top five of all ALL 2008 American law schools for generosity in giving back. Law Firm Challenge leads the way in alumni giving. Number of firms reaches record-breaking 76 firms with 75 percent overall alumni giving participation rate. 32 FIRMS WORLDWIDE REACH EXTRAORDINARY 100 PERCENT ALUMNI GIVING. 205275_Cover_r3.indd 1 9/10/2008 11:06:17 AM 100% The worldwide community of UCLA School of Law alumni has rallied to provide its alma mater with unprecedented philanthropic support during the fiscal year that ended June 30. An astonishing 75 percent of alumni participating in the 2008 Law Firm Challenge made gifts to the school, with the firms listed here—27 of the 68 Challenge firms—achieving 100 percent participation in giving. GROUP I (30+ UCLA LAW ALUMNI) GROUP II (11-29 UCLA LAW ALUMNI) PARTICIPATION: 86% PARTICIPATION: 66% Cox Castle & Nicholson LLP - 34 alumni Christensen, Glaser, Fink, Jacobs, Weil UCLA LAW UCLA Law Board of Advisors UCLA Law Alumni Association Tamar C. Stein ’77 and Douglas Snyder ’81 & Shapiro, LLP - 11 alumni The Magazine of UCLA School of Law Board of Directors ESENTATIVES Brett J. Cohen ’85 Fall 2008 | Vol. 31 | No. 1 | Fall 2008 Michael T. Masin ’69 Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP - 52 alumni EPR © 2008 Regents of the University of California CO -CHAIR Thomas H. Mabie ’79 Ruth E. Fisher ’80, Wayne W. Smith ’72 Fulbright & Jaworski, LLP - 13 alumni PRESIDENT and David S. Egdal ’03 Joseph Park ’94 Kenneth Ziffren ’65 & R UCLA School of Law Office of External Affairs CO -CHAIR The Honorable Joe W. Hilberman ’73 Latham & Watkins LLP - 98 alumni Kirkland & Ellis LLP - 17 alumni Box 951476 VICE PRESIDENT IRMS James D. C. Barrall ’75 and Allen Chiu ’05 Philip Chen ’00 Los Angeles, California 90095-1476 Nancy L. Abell ’79 Donna Cox Wells ’92 James D. C. Barrall ’75 PAST PRESIDENT - 34 alumni - 11 alumni Michael H. Schill, Dean and Professor of Law Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP Littler Mendelson, P.C. Jonathan F. Chait ’75 100% F Margaret Levy ’75 and Nancy Whang ’00 Keith A. Jacoby ’90 Laura Lavado Parker, Associate Dean, External Affairs Stephen E. Claman ’59 Diego A. Arp ’03 Lauri L. Gavel, Director of Communications Melanie K. Cook ’78 Joshua M. Briones ’99 Paul, Hastings, Janofsky Loeb & Loeb LLP - 16 alumni & Walker LLP - 42 alumni Karen R. Thorland ’94 Editors Deborah David ’75 Michael H. Chang ’95 Nancy L. Abell ’79 and Heather A. Morgan ’94 Lauri L. Gavel, Director of Communications Hugo D. de Castro ’60 Leslie Cohen ’80 Milbank Tweed Hadley Sara Wolosky, Communications Officer David J. Epstein ’64 Kathleen H. Drummy ’77 Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & McCloy LLP - 18 alumni Edwin F. Feo ’77 Lawrence P. Ebiner ’85 & Flom LLP - 37 alumni David A. Lamb ’79 Design David Fleming ’59 Rasha L. Gerges ’01 Harriet S. Posner ’84, Jeffrey Cohen ’88, Frank Lopez, Manager of Publications and Graphic Design Arthur N. Greenberg ’52 Elyssa M. Getreu ’99 David Eisman ’93 and Nathaniel Jackson ’05 Quinn, Emanuel, Urquhart, Oliver Bernard A. Greenberg ’58 Michael S. Josephson ’67 & Hedges LLP - 12 alumni Writers Antonia Hernandez ’74 Karin T. Krogius ’82 Robert Becher ’97 Jeremy Deutchman Margarita Palau Hernandez ’85 Elaine W. Mandel ’92 Sara Wolosky Joseph K. Kornwasser ’72 The Honorable Jon M. Mayeda ’71 White & Case - 13 alumni Stewart C. Kwoh ’74 Jay F. Palchikoff ’82 Jim Cairns ’88 and Sayema Hameed ’02 Contributors Rachel Estrada Victor B. MacFarlane ’78 Wilma J. Pinder ’76 (UO P T 10 UCLA LAW ALUMNI) Cathy Yu The Honorable Louis M. Meisinger ’67 Arthur F. Radke ’79 GROUP III PARTICIPATION: 78% Wendy Munger ’77 George H. Ruiz ’92 Photography Greg M. Nitzkowski ’84 J. Frederick Runkel ’81 Arnold & Porter LLP - 7 alumni Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP - 10 alumni Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine Edward Carreon, Carreon Photography Nelson C. Rising ’67 The Honorable George P. Schiavelli ’74 Amy B. Levin ’01 and Sean O. Morris ’96 David R. Eandi ’75 & Regenstreif LLP - 9 alumni Todd Cheney, ASUCLA Photography Paul S. Rutter ’78 Fred W. Slaughter ’99 Joseph Taylor ’87 Marcelo Coelho, Marcelo Coelho Photography Richard V. Sandler ’73 Councilmember Jack S. Weiss ’92 Ballard Rosenberg Golper Holme Roberts & Owen LLP - 3 alumni Don Liebig, ASUCLA Photography Ralph J. Shapiro ’58 & Savitt LLP - 2 alumni Lawrence Ebiner ’85 Osborn Maledon, P.A. - 2 alumni Rich Schmitt, Rich Schmitt Photography The Honorable David Sotelo ’86 John B. Golper ’75 Geoffrey M. T. Sturr ’90 William Short, ASUCLA Photography Bruce H. Spector ’67 Horgan, Rosen, Beckham The Honorable Kim Wardlaw ’79 Bird, Marella, Boxer, Wolpert, Nessim, & Coren, LLP - 4 alumni Pachulski Stang Ziehl Young Jones Printer Drooks & Lincenberg, APC - 5 alumni Mel Aranoff ’75 & Weintraub LLP - 10 alumni The Castle Press Robert J. Wynne ’67 Dorothy Wolpert ’76 Ira D. Kharasch ’82 Pasadena, California Howrey LLP - 7 alumni Bonne Bridges Mueller O’Keefe Richard J. Burdge ’79 Snell & Wilmer LLP - 8 alumni & Nichols LLP - 2 alumni Josette Mollica ’01 Cover photo: Don Liebig, ASUCLA Photography David J. O’Keefe ’64 Jaffe and Clemens - 3 alumni Daniel Jaffe ’62 Sonnenschein, Nath On the cover: UCLA Law alumni and students from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP - 6 alumni & Rosenthal LLP - 8 alumni Flom LLP outside their downtown Los Angeles office. Thirty-seven UCLA Law alumni are employed by the firm. Robert A. Green ’75 and Jonas Hodges ’06 Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin Arthur Levine ’66 & Brill LLP - 3 alumni First row from left: Vanessa Yorke ’10; Jeffrey Cohen ’88; Rakhi Patel ’09; Jacob Hodes ’07 De Castro West Chodorow Glickfeld Juliet Oh ’00 Stutman Treister & Glatt - 6 alumni Second row: Harriet Posner ’84 & Nass, Inc. - 6 alumni Eric Winston ’98 Top: Randy Sims ’09 Hugo D. de Castro ’60 205275_Cover_r1.indd 2 9/4/2008 6:43:11 AM UCLA LAW Magazine | 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS 2 4 29 32 Message from Faculty Campaign How UCLA Law the Dean Kickoff Trains Lawyers 53 71 72 76 Emmett Center Williams Institute Milestone for Class Notes on Climate Impacts Policy Mark Willits '08 Change Also inside... 28 Sandra Day O'Connor Visits UCLA Law 52 Michael T. Masin Scholars 54 Alumni of the Year 60 UCLA-RAND Center for Law and Public Policy 62 Sanela Diana Jenkins Clinic on International Justice 68 Reunions 2008 70 Law Firm Challenge 74 2008 Commencement 88 In Memoriam 205275_Guts_r1.indd 1 9/4/2008 7:02:09 AM 2 | UCLA LAW Magazine MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN Curriculum reform is in the air at American law schools. Spurred on by a recent Carnegie Foundation report, which found that law schools are not effectively training students in the skills necessary to be lawyers, faculties and students are examining whether the needs of society and the profession are being served by how law is taught today. As befits the youngest major law school in the nation located in the most dynamic part of the country, UCLA Law has been and will remain in the forefront of educational innovation. With this issue of the UCLA Law Magazine, we celebrate some aspects of our innovative approach to the teaching of the law and highlight some of our path-breaking programs that bridge the gap between the academy and the world of practice. As the practice of law has become ever more complex, a good lawyer needs to know more than abstract legal doctrines. Our graduates need to learn about specific substantive areas of practice, about the skills superlative practitioners must possess and about the ethical standards to which they should aspire. In ad- dition, our graduates need to master some of the insights of other disciplines regardless of whether they plan to become litigators, corporate lawyers, public defenders or professors. 205275_Guts.indd 2 8/29/2008 12:37:59 PM UCLA LAW Magazine | 3 MESSAGE FROM THE DEAN I am proud to say that while some law schools have newly discovered that they are training lawyers, UCLA Law has never forgotten that first and foremost we are preparing legal professionals. More than three decades ago, under the leadership of Paul Bergman, David Binder and Paul Boland, our school pioneered a vision of clinical education that became the standard for other schools to emulate. And, more than a decade ago, we were among the first law schools in the nation to create academic concentrations, beginning with the creation of the Business Law and Policy Program in 1995. In the ensuing years, as the practice of law has become more specialized our programs have grown with a dynamism that befits our city. Today, students can select from a smorgasbord of 25 separate clinical offerings ranging from Depositions & Discovery to Mergers & Acqui- sitions to Asylum & Human Rights. In addition to our renowned Business Law and Policy Program, our students can specialize in fields as varied as Critical Race Theory, Entertainment and Media, Law and Philosophy and Public Interest Law and Policy.