As the field of law becomes increasingly business-oriented, law schools specializing in corporate law are breeding the future leaders of the business world. In response to the growth of large-scale law firms and the increase of bureaucracy and complexity in the organizational strata of these firms, many law schools are changing their curricula to be […]
Author Archives: Natalie Branach
Part I: Top public Interest program attracts conscientious, unique group
Situated in the heart of Los Angeles, the UCLA School of Law is often more closely associated with entertainment law than public interest. But the school’s program in Public Interest Law and Policy garners nationwide praise. The program is oriented toward both studying public interest problems like homelessness in downtown Los Angeles and enacting public […]
Introduction: Going public v. keeping it private
As the only public law school in southern California, the UCLA School of Law grapples with a tough decision: spending its time and effort specializing in one specific area or dividing its resources into various fields. The top law schools around the country are ordinarily set up to specialize in a particular field, said Jack […]
Law merges with business sense
Images of slick suits and notions of cutthroat competition encompass the corporate world and are often more indicative of business schools than law schools. But such impressions may soon be associated with law schools ““ including the UCLA School of Law ““ as some top schools around the country adapt their curricula to a changing […]
Professor’s expertise paying off
Carole Goldberg’s office on the second floor of the UCLA School of Law is furnished with tribal artifacts and riddled with law textbooks ““ the perfect atmosphere in which to study federal Indian and tribal law. Goldberg became an expert in the field during law school, and ever since then she’s been working to disseminate […]
Search for law dean narrowed to four
The final four have been chosen, and now it’s up to the search committee for next year’s UCLA School of Law dean to compile a report to send to the chancellor. Stephen McAllister, dean at the University of Kansas School of Law, Michael Schill, professor at New York University Law School, Thomas Sullivan, professor at […]
Kwok remembered as loving, playful
People were more important than anything else to Karen Kwok, an 18-year-old UCLA business and economics student who died April 20. “Her goal in life was to love people,” said Aida Sun, a first-year microbiology, immunology, and molecular genetics student and Kwok’s roommate. Though Kwok was a good student, friends say her first priority was […]