This post was updated Nov. 7 at 10:48 a.m. UCLA will no longer hold the sixth Democratic presidential primary debate. The Democratic National Committee asked its media partners to move the debate, planned for Dec. Read more...
Photo: UCLA will no longer host the sixth Democratic presidential primary debate following concerns raised by employee union American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees Local 3299. (Tanmay Shankar/Assistant Photo editor)
The doors of UCLA’s tribal legal clinic, which allows law students to work directly with tribes to develop legal institutions, will soon be open year-round after receiving a $1.3 million grant. Read more...
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This post was updated Nov.1 at 6:26 p.m. The sixth presidential debate will be at UCLA’s Royce Hall on Dec. 19, during winter break. The Democratic National Committee announced the debate Friday. Read more...
Photo: The sixth presidential debate will be held in Royce Hall by the UCLA School of Public Affairs on Dec. 19. Ticketing will be handled by the DNC but a limited number of tickets will be reserved for students and alumni. (Daily Bruin file photo)
This post was updated Oct. 24 at 9:48 p.m. At a Hammer Museum event Tuesday, political and legal experts said they believe the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump could influence the results of future elections. Read more...
Photo: Michael Genovese (left), a political science professor at Loyola Marymount University, and Jessica Levinson (right), a law professor at Loyola Law School, discussed the potential outcomes of the impeachment inquiry investigating President Donald Trump. Shaniqua McClendon (middle), political director of Crooked Media, moderated the event at the Hammer Museum on Tuesday. (Kanishka Mehra/Assistant Photo editor)
This post was updated Oct. 24 at 10:11 p.m. Jorge Salcedo was indicted on additional charges Oct. 22 in relation to the college admissions scandal. The former UCLA men’s soccer coach was previously charged for racketeering in May after allegedly accepting bribes in exchange for several students’ admissions into the university. Read more...
Photo: Jorge Salcedo, the former coach of UCLA men’s soccer team, was charged Oct. 22 with four additional charges regarding the college admissions scandal. (Daily Bruin file photo)
The analytical reasoning portion of the Law School Admission Test will be redesigned following a recent settlement with a legally blind test taker. Angelo Binno, who is legally blind, filed a lawsuit against the Law School Admission Council in May 2017 after the organization denied his request to skip the Analytical Reasoning section of the LSAT, according to a press release from Nyman Turkish PC, the law firm representing Binno. Read more...
Photo: A legally blind student filed a lawsuit against the organization that runs the LSAT, the Law School Admissions Council, in May 2017 after the organization denied his request to skip the Analytical Reasoning section of the LSAT. LSAC is now researching different ways to test analytical reasoning. (Sim Beauchamp/Daily Bruin)
A UCLA-led group of researchers received a $1 million grant to run and expand a survey studying racial and ethnic trends in politics that will follow the 2020 election. Read more...
Photo: Lorrie Frasure-Yokley (left), a professor of political science and African American studies at UCLA, and Matt Barreto (right), a professor of political science and Chicana/o studies at UCLA, are leading a nationwide postelection survey of both voters and nonvoters called the Collaborative Multiracial Post-Election Survey. (Courtesy of UCLA Newsroom)
