Professor Kal Raustiala Elected Vice President of the American Society of International Law
UCLA Law Professor Kal Raustiala, director of the Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations and faculty director of the UCLA International Education Office, was elected a vice president of the American Society of International Law, a volunteer-led organization that promotes the establishment of international relations on the basis of law and justice. Raustiala is a distinguished authority on international law who has a joint appointment between UCLA Law and the UCLA International Institute. From 2012 to 2015, he served as UCLA’s associate vice provost for international studies. His most recent book, The Knockoff Economy: How Imitation Spurs Innovation, written with Christopher Sprigman of NYU Law School, has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Japanese.
Rep. Henry Waxman
Serves as UC Regents Professor Former U.S. Rep. Henry Waxman ’61, JD ’64, who represented parts of West Los Angeles in Congress for 40 years and was deeply involved in key legislation on healthcare, environmental law and other topics, served as a UC Regents Professor at UCLA School of Law for Winter Quarter 2016. He taught Politics, Policy and Congress. In class sessions and frequent office hours, UCLA Law faculty members and students had the opportunity to ask Waxman about his perspective on the legislative process, the interpretation of legislation, and the inside workings of Congress.
Professor Sean Hecht Wins CLAY Award Sean Hecht, co-executive director of the Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Evan Frankel Professor of Policy and Practice at UCLA School of Law, was a 2016 winner of the California Lawyer Attorney of the Year (CLAY) Award for environmental law. The award is given annually by The Daily Journal and California Lawyer to lawyers across the state whose work has had significant impact in the preceding year.
Hecht and UCLA School of Law’s Frank G. Wells Environmental Law Clinic were on the team of lawyers representing plaintiffs who challenged the environmental review of the Newhall Ranch development in the Santa Clarita Valley, north of Los Angeles. Clinic students, including UCLA School of Law alumni Heather Leslie ’15 and Ryan Berghoff ’15, worked on the case, Center for Biological Diversity v. Department of Fish and Wildlife, which reached the California Supreme Court in 2015 and resulted in a court decision favorable to the plaintiffs. The case involved important issues about the proper means to evaluate the climate change impacts of new developments, as well as whether development impacts on a fully-protected species can be mitigated by relocating individual animals.
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