Mayor Villaraigosa Co-Hosts Symposium on Education Reform in California Mayor Villaraigosa speaks at UCLA Law.
loS angeleS mayor antonio villaraigoSa gave the opening address and co-hosted “Learning Curve: The Trajectory of Education Reform Litigation in California,” held at UCLA Law in April. The symposium explored the challenges and progress of educational access and equity and examined the retooling of education advocacy. UCLA Law Professors Gary Blasi and Stuart Biegel, along with Brian Currey, counsel to the mayor, moderated the event. Speakers included Robin Johansen, founding partner of Remcho, Johansen & Purcell, LLP; Margaret Weston, policy associate of the Public Policy Institute of California; Professors John Rogers and Thomas Philip from the UCLA Graduate School of Education & Information Studies; Professor William Koski from Stanford Law School; and Catherine Lhamon, director of impact litigation at Public Counsel Law Center.
Panelists Catherine Lhamon, William Koski and Robin Johansen
Endowed Lectures Focus on Civil Rights Litigation and Intellectual Property Issues AnnA y. pArK ’92, regionAL ATTorney for the Los Angeles District Office of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), delivered the Irving H. Green Memorial Lecture in November. During her talk, “The EEOC: Advancing the Promise of Opportunity in the Public Interest,” she described what it takes to be a civil rights litigator and shared her experience litigating civil rights cases. Calling her work a “dream job” and saying that in this job “you are giving a voice to the voiceless,” she talked about some of the cases she has worked on at the EEOC, including those involving human trafficking, sexual harassment and age discrimination. Also in November, the law school hosted the Melville B. Nimmer Memorial Lecture, which commemorates the career of copyright authority and UCLA Law Professor Mel Nimmer with a discussion by a scholar who is advancing the field of copyright. This year’s lecturer, James Boyle, William Neal Reynolds professor of law at Duke University School of Law and a specialist in online intellectual property law, delivered the talk “Back to the Future: Piracy, Technological Revolution and a ‘Scheme of Greed.’” The event also paid tribute to Gloria Nimmer, the wife of Mel Nimmer and the driving force behind the establishment of the Nimmer Lecture, who passed away last spring.
Anna Park '92
James Boyle
UCLA Professor Mark Green, Irving Green's son, Dean Moran, Anna Park '92 and Professor Gary Blasi
Professor Laura Gómez and Alumni Participate in Research Trip to Cuba profeSSor laUra e. gómez lectured on “Law and Society in Socialist Cuba” during a one-week research trip to Havana, Cuba, sponsored by California Lawyers for the Arts. The trip was organized by Cynthia Sanchez ’02, co-vice president of California Lawyers for the Arts and counsel for policy and international affairs at the U.S. Copyright Office in Washington, D.C. Also traveling with the group was Lena Hines ’02, a tax manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers. The trip included a seminar on the Cuban legal framework, a visit with Cuban attorneys who specialize in international arbitration and seminars with Cuban judges and law professors.
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