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Professor Zatz Awarded John Randolph Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship
Assistant Dean Herrera Receives Academic Leadership Award
Professor Noah Zatz was awarded a John Randolph Haynes Foundation Faculty Fellowship for his project proposal, βPrecarious Work in the Shadow of Mass Incarceration.β His proposed research will focus on two crises of inequality in Los Angeles: impoverishing, insecure employment, often called βprecarious work,β and βmass incarcerationβ shaped by severe racial disparities. While these are often treated as separate phenomena, Professor Zatzβs project will explore a potentially important but overlooked connection: how the power to punish can produce and validate precarious work. Professor Zatz joined the UCLA Law faculty in 2004 and his interests include employment and labor law, welfare law and antipoverty policy, work/family issues, feminist legal and social theory and liberal political theory. His writing and teaching address how work structures both inequality and social citizenship in the modern welfare state. Professor Zatz is particularly committed to training public interest lawyers and to engaging students with the role law can play both as an instrument of injustice and as a contributor to emancipatory social change. He is an active participant in the law schoolβs David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy and Critical Race Studies Program.
Luz Herrera, assistant dean for clinical education, experiential learning and public service, received the Hispanic National Bar Foundationβs Academic Leadership Award. She was presented with the award in honor of her outstanding contributions to the Hispanic community during the organizationβs annual awards dinner, held in Washington, D.C., in July. Before arriving at UCLA School of Law, Assistant Dean Herrera was an assistant professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, a visiting clinical professor at the UC Irvine School of Law, a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law and a senior clinical fellow at Harvard Law School. In her various academic positions, she has encouraged innovation and promoted access to justice through experiential learning. At Thomas Jefferson School of Law, she developed a transactional clinical program called the Small Business Law Center (SBLC). At UC Irvine, she supervised students in the Consumer Protection Clinic and the Community Economic Development Clinic, and she managed special projects for the California Monitor, a program of the Office of the California Attorney General providing oversight of the National Mortgage Settlement implementation.
Tony Tolbert Awarded Chancellorβs Diversity Leadership Scholarship Tony Tolbert, director of learning environment and academic affairs and an adjunct faculty member, has received the UCLA Chancellorβs Diversity Leadership Scholarship to attend the Multidimensional Leadersβ Institute, a leadership development program offered by UCLA Andersonβs Office of Executive Education. The program brings together managers from diverse backgrounds and provides participants with the skills to become more effective leaders. Tolbert was selected to receive the scholarship for his expertise, professional service, commitment to leadership development and dedication to UCLAβs mission. For nearly 14 years, he co-directed the law schoolβs Law Fellows Program, and he also served as an associate director of admissions and outreach at UCLA Law. In his current role, he focuses on enhancing the learning climate and helping all students to develop the cultural effectiveness necessary for legal professionals. He also teaches the law schoolβs Street Law clinic.
FALL 2015 | UCLA LAW MAGAZINE 9