Law

Dean Erwin Chmerinsky hugs graduate Jean Su

A class act

Among other achievements, the 58 members of the School of Law’s class of 2012 helped define UCI’s pro bono program, establishing the school as a true champion of public interest legal education with a strong emphasis on experiential learning.

Books participating in UCI's Literary Orange event

Celebrating the written word

Sixth annual event will celebrate books, writing with talks, signings by acclaimed authors.

David Rodwin, Edgar Aguilasocho, Sameer Ashar

Exploring the human toll of a misguided policy

Immigration Rights Clinic students say Secure Communities program could lead to racial profiling.

Scales sitting on a pillar

A legal leg up

Impressive number of graduating students have already secured judicial clerkships.

Globe and Gavel

Legal zoom

New program at UC Irvine School of Law permits concurrent degree study.

Jean-Paul Carvalho

68 new faculty members welcomed

Eight full professors join the engineering, law and medical schools.

Leveling the legal field

UCI’s Pre-Law Outreach Program aims to encourage, recruit disadvantaged undergrads.

UCI law students snapped up for summer jobs

Some are working in a clinic to investigate violations of Verizon workers’ rights in a class-action lawsuit.

UCI's law review

Inaugural law review is hot off the press

Compendium of scholarly articles focuses on innovation in legal education.

Susan Lewis, Sam Lam and Lauren Gruber

Law students help Iraqi refugees trapped in legal limbo

UCI law students have joined efforts to help Iraqi refugees trapped in a legal limbo. The displaced can’t go home again, but resettling in the U.S. or another welcoming country can take months or years of complicated paperwork.