opinion

Gaspar Rivera-Salgado, project director with the UCLA Center for Labor Research and Education where he teaches classes in labor studies, talks about the first biopic to feature iconic Chicano labor leader Cesar Chavez.

William J. McCarthy, UCLA adjunct professor of public health, writes about the failed experiment to improve on Mother Nature’s options for fatty food by using “healthier” trans fat.

UCLA's Eugene Volokh, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, says that the Colorado law is ill-defined and wide open to arbitrary enforcement.

Granting businesses a religious exemption from offering health care plans that cover birth control, says UCLA law professor Adam Winkler, would open the door to religious-based discrimination against LGBT people.

President Obama should exercise his executive privileges by halting deportations and providing immediate relief to the millions of undocumented immigrants living in the shadows.

UCLA law professor Adam Winkler argues that Hobby Lobby should lose its challenge to Obamacare at the Supreme Court, because corporations have some personal rights.

Postdoctoral scholar Nicole Mirra questions claims that the Common Core emphasizes civic responsibility and looks at what the new standards are really doing to prepare students to be citizens.

Boom magazine asked Alessandro Duranti, author and distinguished professor of anthropology and dean of social sciences at the UCLA College of Letters and Science, how universities will intersect with society in 2050.

Ethan N. Elkind researches and writes on environmental law with a joint appointment at the UCLA and UC Berkeley schools of law. He is the author of the new book "Railtown: The Fight for the Los Angeles Metro Rail and the Future of the...

Donald Shoup, distinguished professor of urban planning in the Luskin School of Public Affairs, has become the nation’s oft-quoted, go-to expert on parking. 

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...

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...

This op-ed by UCLA Chancellor Gene Block was published March 14 in the Washington Post.