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The study by the Williams Institute at the UCLA School of Law shows that state and local sales taxes increase by an estimated $52 million.

The Ziffren Center for Media, Entertainment, Technology and Sports Law will expand UCLA Law’s highly regarded programs through curricular innovations, research support, new programming and hands-on skills training.

With an impressive string of cited amicus briefs and appellate litigation appearances, UCLA Law faculty members are making an impact on important issues.

Law professor Mary Nichols chronicles the 20-year saga to remove the veil of smog over Los Angeles.

Law professor Kimberlé Crenshaw writes in the Washington Post about how intersectionality brings to light the invisibility of many constituents within groups that claim them as members, but often fail to represent them.

Breyer joined School of Law Dean Jennifer Mnookin in a discussion about the law, the Supreme Court and also his new book “The Court and The World: American Law and the New Global Realities.”

The much-debated nuclear agreement with Iran is now a fact and should be given a chance to work, a panel of experts from UCLA and the RAND Corporation said during a discussion that drew a packed crowd to a lecture hall in Bunche Hall recently.

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center has launched the Suyama Project to gather and make available online evidence of resistance among Japanese Americans forcibly removed from their homes during World War II.

Professor John Villasenor writes on Slate that the cyberattackers would bear primary responsibility but manufacturers and car owners could face some liability, too.

Law professor Cara Horowitz on what legal challenges opponents of President Obama’s new Clean Power Plan will use to try to block its implementation.

Law professor Douglas NeJaime writes in the Los Angeles Times that the struggle for full legal protections and equal rights has not ended for gay and lesbian families.

Adam Winkler notes that the legal reasoning used by Chief Justice John Roberts in the decision that upheld the president’s signature health care law will preserve it against future challenges.

In its historic decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide, the U.S. Supreme Court today cited research by Gary Gates, the Blachford-Cooper Distinguished Scholar and Research Director at the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law.

Law professor Adam Winkler writes that there are two cases — one famous and one forgotten — that may haunt the chief justice and explain his recent pivot away from the court’s conservative bloc.

Jennifer Mnookin has served as vice dean for faculty and research and as vice dean for external appointments and intellectual life, and she is founding faculty director of the school’s Program on Understanding, Science and Evidence.

A new report from UCLA School of Law’s Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment provides recommendations on how to harness AB 2516 to enhance coastal climate change preparedness in California.

Law professor Adam Winkler writes about the importance of Justice Kennedy, the relative value of precedent and the role of originalism, among other things to look out for during oral arguments about same-sex marriage.

Gary Gates of the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law writes in an op-ed that data shows same-sex couples are far more likely to raise adopted or foster children.

The endowed chair commemorates Luskin’s longstanding relationship with his friend and attorney, Robert Henigson.

Kal Raustiala writes in an op-ed that the jury was incorrect and that copyright law is intended to create incentives for artists to produce new creative works, not ensure basic fairness.

Research shows that the number of married same sex-couples nearly tripled since 2013 and a greater likelihood those couples will be raising adopted or foster children compared to different-sex couples.

More than 800 people gathered in Royce Hall to applaud the courage of 16 civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — who challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.

UCLA will honor alumni who joined a mass protest in 1961 and became Freedom Riders to protest segregation encountered by African Americans when they traveled between states on buses, trains and used public facilities.

On Sunday at the Chancellor's Residence, New York Senator and UCLA Law alumna Kirsten Gillibrand shared her personal journey in public service with UCLA Law alumnae at an event marking the official launch of a law school initiative aimed at empowering and supporting the school's women graduates.

Eugene Volokh says that two relevant legal precedents undermine Sony’s demand that media cease distributing leaked information.