Author Archives: Natalie Branach

Amid cameras and television reporters, many UCLA students gathered together Thursday afternoon to rally against Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s proposed 2004-2005 budget, which calls for a variety of fee increases and program defunding. Galvanized by the UCLA Law Student Committee Against Fee Increases, the rally featured law and undergraduate students along with university workers condemning the […]

All five Claremont College campuses canceled class Wednesday in reaction to a hate crime incident Tuesday, in which a Claremont McKenna professor’s car was broken into and vandalized. The car was found in a campus parking lot with its tires slashed, its windows broken, and its body covered with spray-painted racial and religious slurs, said […]

The UCLA School of Law will receive today the largest donation ever given by an American Indian tribe to an academic institution ““ to the tune of $4 million. The donation by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians will create a mutually beneficial relationship for both parties. The funds have been gathered by the […]

As the Grand Horizon Ballroom in Covel Commons slowly filled with the sounds of a live jazz band Friday night, law students, professors and professionals mingled and munched on snacks, partying for a good cause. The event, which featured a silent and live auction, music and food, was hosted by the Public Interest Law Foundation to […]

In many ways, the UCLA Anderson School of Management and the UCLA School of Law are their own entities on campus. They have their own curricula, administrative offices and student service organizations. Yet the decision of who to appoint as the two schools’ deans rests largely upon Chancellor Albert Carnesale. Search committees appointed by Carnesale […]

An annual law school event held Friday was meant to update the community about developments in sexual orientation law over the past year, but much of the talk focused on one ruling issued last week. Even before the first speaker came up to the podium, the chattering of the crowd centered on a single issue […]

Wednesday’s decision by the Massachusetts State Judicial Court to legalize same-sex marriage is reverberating across the nation and will be a major topic of discussion today at a UCLA School of Law panel event. The annual event, hosted by the Charles R. Williams Project, will feature discussions on developments in the sexual orientation law over […]