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Research shows that the number of married same sex-couples nearly tripled since 2013 and a greater likelihood those couples will be raising adopted or foster children compared to different-sex couples.

More than 800 people gathered in Royce Hall to applaud the courage of 16 civil rights activists — all UCLA alumni — who challenged segregation in the South in 1961 as Freedom Riders.

UCLA will honor alumni who joined a mass protest in 1961 and became Freedom Riders to protest segregation encountered by African Americans when they traveled between states on buses, trains and used public facilities.

On Sunday at the Chancellor's Residence, New York Senator and UCLA Law alumna Kirsten Gillibrand shared her personal journey in public service with UCLA Law alumnae at an event marking the official launch of a law school initiative aimed at empowering and supporting the school's women graduates.

Eugene Volokh says that two relevant legal precedents undermine Sony’s demand that media cease distributing leaked information.

A UCLA environmental law clinic coaches students to become legal advisers and official delegates to the annual United Nations climate conference

Study by UCLA and Rand Corporation found that three states that enacted malpractice reform saw no change in doctors’ use of expensive imaging tests and rates of hospitalization following emergency visits.

Report by the Climate Change and Business Research Initiative at the UCLA and UC Berkeley law schools suggests that used electric vehicle batteries may be a promising solution to California's search for cheap energy storage.

The history of predictions that copying would kill the fashion industry ignore the fact that trends in how we dress wouldn't exist without imitation.

Law professor Jill Horwitz co-authors an op-ed criticizing the D.C. circuit court for acting a tool in the relentless search for legal flaws to tear down the landmark health care law.

Law students shoulder a heavy responsibility as they work for months to prepare a man from Africa for his one chance at being granted asylum.

Law professor Jennifer Mnookin writes that because of camera angles, close-ups and other filming techniques, videotaped confessions can be misleading.

UCLA School of Law professor Adam Winkler says Justice Breyer’s opinion in the recess appointments case deals a blow to constitutional originalism.

Law professor Adam Winkler says that minority groups could be at risk of losing legal protections after the Supreme Court's decision in the Hobby Lobby case.

Adam Winkler says Justice Kennedy's swing vote status on gun control may be why the Court was reluctant to hear Second Amendment cases.

A small group of law students from UCLA has helped community advocates add their voice to the debate over who should oversee the investigation of inmate abuse and monitor what's going on in L.A. county jails.

Opinion: How a terrible Supreme Court decision about player pianos created the cover song and laid a foundation for creativity.

Using objective visual characteristics could help increase the accuracy of fingerprint identification and help labs assess which print comparisons might require special care.

Arienna Grody will become a public defender in Alabama after winning the first UCLA Gideon’s Promise Fellowship.

The gift will support research and policy fellows; fund student scholarships and a public service fellowship; support outreach, events and speaker series; and provide resources to attract faculty.

UCLA law professor Katherine Stone studies the erosion of the middle class and the changing nature of employment.

Increasingly, legislative and judicial actions sacrifice individual rights at the altar of anti-discrimination law, the authors argue.

UCLA's Eugene Volokh, the Gary T. Schwartz Professor of Law, says that the Colorado law is ill-defined and wide open to arbitrary enforcement.

UCLA law professor Adam Winkler argues that Hobby Lobby should lose its challenge to Obamacare at the Supreme Court, because corporations have some personal rights.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor talks to law students and faculty during a daylong visit to UCLA School of Law Tuesday. Her schedule included a Q&A session, a student reception, lunch with the law faculty and a visit to a class...