The loss of former California Supreme Court justice and UCLA School of Law Professor Cruz Reynoso, who died on May 7 at age 90, has left the UCLA Law community saddened.
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China and the United States share a set of similar goals when it comes to climate change, which could help advance collaboration and inspire others around the world to work together toward curbing greenhouse gas emissions, according to a recent report and climate experts. Climate is important in itself, and it s also important because it s going to show us how to develop habits and how to work those habits of cooperation, of dialogues, of working together for the total humanity, said former California Governor Jerry Brown during a webinar in April hosted by the California-China Climate Institute at the UC Berkeley School of Law.
Professor of Law, Civil Rights Advocate, State’s 1st Latino Supreme Court Justice
by Carla Meyer and Karen Nikos-Rose
May 09, 2021
Cruz Reynoso, the trailblazing lawyer, jurist, law professor and the first Latino California Supreme Court justice, has died at age 90. He died Friday (May 7) at an elder care facility in Oroville, according to his family. Cause of death had not been determined.
SCHOLARSHIP FUND
In lieu of flowers, the Reynoso family asks for contributions to the Cruz and Jeannene Reynoso Scholarship for Legal Access at the UC Davis School of Law.
Memorial arrangements are pending.
A University of California, Davis, School of Law professor from 2001 to 2006, he remained devoted to the law school, and the University of California, as an emeritus professor teaching students, speaking at events and leading special projects until recently. To the School of Law community, he was the civil rights icon who always had a moment to talk in the halls, about the law, publ
In the wake of former Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin being found guilty of the murder of George Floyd, four campus professors discussed the verdict’s impact and how policing should change to better support communities of color during a virtual Berkeley Conversations event Tuesday.
Titled “Thinking About Race, Racism, and Policing After the Chauvin Verdict,” the event was introduced by Raka Ray, UC Berkeley’s dean of the Division of Social Sciences, and moderated by Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the UC Berkeley School of Law. Mike Williams, a campus administrator and alumnus, spoke on the verdict’s impact as well as his racist encounters with UCPD as a Black man.
CA DFPI Announces Members of New Debt Collection Advisory Committee Published on: 30 April 2021 at 08:00 a.m. ET April 30, 2021, 8 a.m. May 3, 2021, 9:40 a.m. insideARM.com The iA Institute
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. The California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation (DFPI) today announced the formal creation of its inaugural debt collection advisory committee, a seven-member board that will provide critical feedback to the Department as it stands up its debt collection licensing program. The diverse group includes a consumer advocate and representatives from the debt collection, debt-buying, third-party collection, and collection law industries.
The committee members represent a cross-section of interested candidates; five are industry representatives, one is a consumer advocate, and one is a law and economics professor who studies the industry.