National law group honors UCLA law professor, Albuquerque native
Copyright © 2020 Albuquerque Journal Watching her father working at the University of New Mexico, where he was an administrator, got Laura E. Gómez thinking that an academic setting such as that was a perfect fit for her. Today, Gómez, a scholar in law and sociology, is a tenured professor of law at the University of California Los Angeles, and co-founder and director of UCLA’s Critical Race Studies Program. She also holds appointments in the Sociology Department, and in the Chicana/Chicano Studies and Central American Studies Department. On Feb. 16, Gómez will be formally honored with ...