For the @law.ucla.edu Public Service Challenge, our law students volunteered at @treepeople-org.bsky.social, removing invasive plants, and planting CA sagebrush and other natives all along a hillside they’re restoring. #probono

My new one @slate.com: "Gavin Newsom Just Proved It: Voters Want Democrats to Fight Fire With Fire" slate.com/news-and-pol...

This article in the new #UCLA Blueprint magazine looks at our GCF Task Force's work in Brazil on the long road to #COP30. blueprint.ucla.edu/sketch/notes...

Debates over Medicaid and affordable healthcare are at the center of the ongoing government shutdown. Our research shows that 1.8 million LGBT adults rely on Medicaid as their primary health insurance.

As the government shutdown continues and SNAP benefits remain uncertain, we are reminded that 2 million LGBT adults in the U.S. rely on these benefits to feed themselves and their families. #SNAP #Food #Report #Research #governmentshutdown

Here's our new user-friendly ranking of super-polluting methane emissions across multiple sectors called STOP Methane (Spotlight on Top Plumes). Our UCLA experts will regularly publish lists as a new resource for journalists, industry leaders, policymakers, and the public. ucla.in/3JB9yBt

Generations of UCLA Law scholars and leaders recently gathered for a three-day summit to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Critical Race Studies program. Read more: law.ucla.edu/news/25-year... #CriticalRaceStudies #CRS #Law

I did not write the headline, but I have an op ed on Prop 50 over at the @sfchronicle.com. Shorter version: the nationalization and polarization of our politics is what got us here, and it's also the most likely way out. It will take national partisan Democratic hardball to enact anti-hardball.

This Supreme Court term, UCLA Law is leading vital conversations—from Prof. Stuart Banner arguing before SCOTUS to hosting Linda Greenhouse & @leahlitman.bsky.social for discussions on the Court. Read the full story: law.ucla.edu/news/now-ses... #Law

We just filed an amicus brief defending the right of air pollution regulators to set important standards under the Clean Air Act to protect public health. Our executive director Cara Horowitz explains the strangely important case about boilers and water heaters. legal-planet.org/2025/10/30/a...

Proposed limits on refugee admissions to the U.S. could significantly impact LGBTQI+ refugees globally.

Join us on November 13th at 10 AM PT for Embryonic and Fetal Rights? What it Would Mean for Pregnant People and Reproductive Rights, Health, and Research. Don't miss out! Register now at: ucla.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Our October newsletter has arrived and it's packed 📑 Defending Clean Air at the Ninth Circuit 🏭 New Energy Report: “Cost & Carbon” 👏🏻 Welcome: Nico Esguerra and the ESI Project 🌎 Methane Workshop in Argentina 🌳Yosemite Environmental Law Conference 🎤 Media ⁉️ Trivia Corner! mailchi.mp/law.ucla.edu...

How big a deal is California’s Proposition 50? UCLA Law professor and voting rights expert @rickhasen.bsky.social weighs in on the congressional redistricting measure: law.ucla.edu/news/how-big... #Law

My explainer @uclaupdates.bsky.social @law.ucla.edu about Proposition 50 newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/how-...

UCLA Law professor Anna Spain Bradley (@aspainbradley.bsky.social) has been appointed to the MacArthur Foundation Chair in International Justice and Human Rights. She's an expert in international law and faculty director of The Promise Institute for Human Rights at UCLA. #Law

The U.S. energy industry is always complex but perhaps never more so than right now. Excited to welcome back @law.ucla.edu alumni in the field to talk with students about the path forward. @luskininnovation.bsky.social @uclasustainablela.bsky.social RSVP: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

This opinion piece published in @icaruscomplexmag.bsky.social by our ED, @katemackintosh.bsky.social, explains exactly what #ecocide is, why it should be recognised as an #internationalcrime and how it is intrinsically related to #humanrights! icaruscomplexmagazine.com/ecocide-is-t...

More than 2 million LGBT adults in the U.S. rely on federal food assistance benefits. Learn more in our report at bit.ly/LGBTSNAP

Many LBTQ Latinas in LA County face discrimination and harassment in employment, housing, and health care. For example, one in five reported that a landlord or realtor refused to sell or rent to them because of their LBTQ identity.

Our new study on the lived experiences and needs of LBTQ Latinas in LA County finds the majority face economic instability and food insecurity. Read the full report at tinyurl.com/LALBTQLatinas

Watch Archived Video of @law.ucla.edu Safeguarding Democracy Project Webinar: “Redistricting and Re-Redistricting Controversies and the 2026 Elections” www.youtube.com/watch?v=x063... @mcpli.bsky.social @profnickstephan.bsky.social Guy Charles and Moon Duchin

Nearly one in five (17%) same-sex couples in the U.S. are raising their own children, including 22% of married same-sex couples. Raising their own children is defined by the Census as a householder raising a biological or adopted child. Learn more at tinyurl.com/CensusSnap

Over half of LBTQ Latinas in LA County are living in low-income households, and many struggled with food insecurity in the past year.

It’s ‘work hard, hike hard’ here at the Yosemite Environmental Law Conference.

Global production of plastic has topped 1 trillion pounds per year, and 33 billion pounds of plastic enters the ocean annually. Some estimates find that only 5-6% of plastic is really recycled. Here are some reasons why.

We’re packing our bags for the annual Environmental Law Conference at Yosemite. Faculty and staff plus about FORTY @law.ucla.edu environmental law students. Who else is going?

Check out Hiroshi Motomura’s latest piece about immigration policy. Prof. Motomura is the Faculty Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy at the @law.ucla.edu . He is a nonresident scholar with Carnegie California at @carnegieendowment.org . 🔗 bit.ly/humanitarian...

Watch My @hammer.ucla.edu @law.ucla.edu Interview with Professor Leah Litman @harrylitman.bsky.social About Her New Supreme Court Book, “Lawless” channel.hammer.ucla.edu/video/1968/l...

UCLA Law welcomes Matthew Nickell as director of the new Housing Justice Clinic, launching spring 2026. The clinic will provide free legal representation to tenants and unhoused individuals in LA while training the next generation of housing advocates. law.ucla.edu/news/ucla-la...

On Indigenous Peoples' Day, we're reminded that there are 285,000 American Indian and Alaska Native LGBT adults in the U.S. More than 60% of them live in the South and West. bit.ly/AIANSES

Our new report finds that trans and nonbinary immigrants in LA who responded to our survey were twice as likely to be unemployed as non-immigrants.

Our new report finds that more than one in six LBTQ Latinas have been unhoused at some point in the last five years. That's more than double the rate for all adults in LA County and more than four times the rate for GBTQ white men.

Join us on 11/3 at 11:30 AM PT for our upcoming webinar, Realizing the Promise of State Reproductive Freedom Amendments, featuring lawyers on the frontlines of litigation and ballot campaigns with insights into these new constitutional guarantees. RSVP: bit.ly/CRHLPReproWe...

Which is better at delivering power: publicly owned LADWP or investor-owned Southern California Edison? They provide a unique opportunity to contrast the two models, says our @denisegrab.bsky.social Read the report: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul...

Prof. Stuart Banner, who runs @UCLA Law's Supreme Court Clinic, opened the latest U.S. Supreme Court term with oral argument in Villareal v. Texas, the latest case the clinic has taken to the high court. #SCOTUS 🔗: law.ucla.edu/news/ucla-la...

Very excited to be interviewing my friend and former colleague @leahlitman.bsky.social at the @hammer.ucla.edu on Tuesday, October 14 (cosponsored by @law.ucla.edu) about her new book, Lawless. Free admission and video of the event will post afterwards. Join us! hammer.ucla.edu/programs-eve...

Our research shows that over 700,000 LGBTQ adults in the U.S. have undergone conversion therapy, including half who received it as adolescents.

In the The Chronicle of Philanthropy's recent article on the legality of Donald Trump’s directive to target liberal groups and progressive nonprofits, Ellen Aprill offers insight into the limits of IRS authority and the potential misuse of nonprofit tax law. www.philanthropy.com/article/trum...

Three-quarters of surveyed trans and nonbinary immigrants in Los Angeles face poverty. Read the full report at tinyurl.com/TNBImmigrantsLA

My New One at MSNBC Opinion on How the Supreme Court Seems Poised to Kill Off What Remains of the Voting Rights Act While Few Pay Attention–With Implications for 2026 Redistricting www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb... @msnbc.com

What does 130 years of deportation data reveal about America? UCLA Law's Center for Immigration Law and Policy, in partnership with Million Dollar Hoods, created "Mapping Deportations," a database tracing every deportation order since 1895. @uclacilp.bsky.social law.ucla.edu/news/mapping...

🧵 (1/8) My new working paper with Maurice Obstfeld, “Tariffs as Fiscal Policy”, was just posted today @piie.com. Within, we evaluate the new role that tariffs are playing in the US economy. www.piie.com/publications...

🧵 (1/7) With @knittelmit.bsky.social and @cwolfram.bsky.social, happy to announce our new paper on “Who Bears the Burden of Climate Inaction?”, just posted for BPEA @brookings.edu. We find large climate cost impacts that vary by both geography and income. www.brookings.edu/articles/who...

Work with us next summer! Apply now to be a 2026 spring extern contributing to our legal and interdisciplinary work. This position is available to 2L, 3L, and LLM students at UCLA Law. Learn more: law.ucla.edu/sites/defaul.... App will be reviewed through 11/17/25.

“Conversion therapists do exactly the opposite of what mental health professionals recommend. If somebody is struggling with their sexuality or gender, you don’t tell them it’s right to feel shameful.” - Ilan Meyer, Distinguished Senior Scholar of Law and Policy in @theguardian.com

@talkingpointsmemo.com picked up my blog post about the Trump administration's "compact" with higher ed. This is a post I'm highly motivated to get out to more readers because everyone connected with any university—as an alum, faculty, student, staff, etc—can help persuade their school not to sign.

In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, keep in mind that nearly six in 10 Latinx LGBT adults live with low incomes, more than any other race/ethnicity. bit.ly/LGBTracediff

New semester, new worker advocates ✊ Students from @uclawsf.bsky.social, @law.ucla.edu, and partner orgs are joining our Workers’ Rights Clinics across CA. They’ll get practical experience defending workers while learning the importance of providing affordable, accessible legal assistance.