Opinion + Voices

Jane Margolis is a senior researcher at UCLA and the author of “Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing.” Marcelo Suárez-Orozco, a professor and dean of education at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education and...

Jack Rothman is a professor emeritus in the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs and the author of “Strategies of Community Intervention.” Amy Rothman is a Los Angeles psychotherapist and mediator. This op-ed was originally published on Jan. 15 in...

Daniel J.B. Mitchell is a professor emeritus of the UCLA Anderson School of Management and Luskin School of Public Affairs. This was adapted from a commentary that appeared in a weekly column of the Employment Policy Research Network.Every once in...

UCLA professor Mark Kleiman says that getting rid of prohibition throws up problems that call for smarter policies.

Brenda E. Stevenson is professor of history at UCLA. She is the past chair of the history department and past chair of Afro-American Studies. Her books include the award-winning "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave...

Dr. Jody Heymann is dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, an elected member of the Institute of Medicine and distinguished professor of epidemiology, medicine and public policy at UCLA. Prior to this, she held a Canada Research Chair in...

Dr. Brad Spellberg is a professor of medicine at the Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center. He is the co-author of "Rising Plague: The Global Threat from Deadly Bacteria and Our Dwindling Arsenal to Fight Them."...

Victor Narro is a UCLA professor of labor and workplace studies, and an adjunct professor of law. His op-ed appeared Dec. 17, 2013, in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune.   In my position as a labor professor and researcher at UCLA, I have...

Dr. Jody Heymann, dean of the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, asserts that we should shift our health care spending to more prevention to increase lifespans and save money.

Abigail C. Saguy, associate professor and vice chair of the UCLA sociology department, is the author of "What’s Wrong with Fat?" (Oxford University Press, 2013). This piece was published Dec. 17 on the Zocalo Public Square website....

Kal Raustiala is a professor at the UCLA School of Law. Raustiala's research focuses on international law and politics and on intellectual property. Christopher Jon Sprigman is a professor at the New York University School of Law and...

Mike Rose is a professor at the UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies and author of “Back to School: Why Everyone Deserves a Second Chance at Education.” This piece was the first of three on teacher education...

David Gere is a professor in the world arts and cultures/dance department and director of the Art and Global Health Center at UCLA. His essay appeared on the Zocalo Public Square website on Dec. 1, World AIDS Day.   Twenty-five years ago,...

Ethan Elkind is the Bank of America Climate Policy Associate at the UC Berkeley and UCLA schools of law and serves as the lead author of UCLA-UC Berkeley’s grant-funded series of policy reports on business solutions to combat climate change....

Shlomo Benartzi is a UCLA Anderson professor, chief behavioral economist of the AllianzGI Center for Behavioral Finance and vice chair of the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Neuroscience and Behaviour. His...

Robert E. Buswell Jr. (left) holds the Irving and Jean Stone Endowed Chair in Humanities at the College of Letters and Science at UCLA. He is also Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies and founding director of the Center for Buddhist Studies....

Ronald C. White Jr., a visiting professor of history at UCLA and a fellow at the Huntington Library, is the author of the book, "A. Lincoln: A Biography." This op-ed was originally published in the Los Angeles Times on Nov. 17. The celebration of...

Timothy Spangler, who teaches at UCLA School of Law, is an expert on financial regulation in the United States and Europe and corporate law. He advises on the structuring and operation of a wide variety of investment funds, including...

David Shulman is a retired Wall Street executive who is now a senior economist at the UCLA Anderson Forecast. This op-ed appeared in U.S. News and World Report on Wednesday, Oct. 23.     If our country were run as business, both...

Stephen Oliner is a senior fellow at the UCLA Ziman Center for Real Estate at the UCLA Anderson School of Management. He is also a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He was formerly an associate director in the division of...

Brenda Stevenson is a UCLA professor of history and African American studies, as well as author of "Life in Black and White: Family and Community in the Slave South" and “The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins: Justice, Gender and the Origins...

Zocalo Public Square recently invited economist M.V. Lee Badgett, research director of UCLA’s Williams Institute for Sexual Orientation Law and Public Policy and director of the Center for Public Policy and Administration at the University of...

Sean Young is a family medicine professor and director of innovation at the center for behavioral and addiction medicine at UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. He writes about topics related to psychology, technology and public health/medicine at...

Mavis Wong is a fifth-year UCLA graduate student studying membranes for desalinization of water. This article was originally published in the Huffington Post on Sept. 26, 2013.   All the organizing and emailing for UCLA Volunteer Day...

Adam Winkler is a professor at UCLA School of Law and the author of "Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America." This op-ed appeared in the New York Daily News Sunday, Sept. 22.   Another tragic mass shooting, another round...