law

Alumna Megan Braun ’10 is clerking for Chief Justice John Roberts as he oversees trial

John Hipp and Charis Kubrin, both professors of criminology, law & society, and Emily Owens, associate professor of criminology, law & society, have been awarded a two-year, $700,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Justice to determine the ways in which immigration and crime are related. Using a decade of data, they’ll conduct analyses that […]

UC conference on topical issue inspires students, such as UCI’s Henry Glitz

Collection details Erwin Chemerinsky’s illustrious 40-year legal career

Bill Maurer, dean of UCI’s School of Social Sciences and professor of anthropology and law, has been awarded a grant from Capital One to investigate the human implications of how artificial intelligence and machine learning are employed in the financial services industry. Using case studies in applications of AI/ML that may increasingly affect people’s financial […]

Viridiana Chabolla was only a few days into her first year at the UCI School of Law when that helpless feeling she had first experienced as a child welled up once again. Walking to class on the morning of Sept. 5, 2017, she watched a livestreamed video on her cellphone of U.S. Attorney General Jeff […]

Social ecology faculty highlight deficits in effort to improve law enforcement, court processes and corrections

EVENT:  UCI Law graduate Star Leal, selected by her classmates to be this year’s student commencement speaker, gave birth to a baby boy – her fourth child –last Sunday. Leal, 29, earned her degree while advocating for homeless and special needs children and ran highly successful toy drives for them. She will focus her practice […]

Chancellor’s Professor Richard Hasen explores legacy of conservative Supreme Court icon Antonin Scalia in new book

Distinguished legal scholar is only woman of color to lead top-30 law school