Members of UChicago's Class of 2021 tell their stories, including the toll that COVID-19 has taken on their family, and the lessons they've learned from their transformative College education.
By Becky Beaupre Gillespie, Director of Content
May 26, 2021
Ana Luquerna
Ana Luquerna, ’21, a JD candidate whose interest in international law began at age nine when her family was granted asylum by the United States
, will be a 2021-2022 judicial fellow at the International Court of Justice in the Hague, a highly competitive program designed to expose participants to international law and the work of the Court.
During law school, Luquerna worked for two years on the Law School’s Global Human Rights Clinic and one year on the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, and served as articles editor on the
Chicago Journal of International Law, president of the Human Rights Law Society, vice president of the Immigration Law Society, and vice president of the Latinx Law Students Association. She also worked as a research assistant to Tom Ginsburg, the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law; engaged in pro bono projects focused on refugee and immigrant justice; and interned for the Am
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
Washington Free Beacon
Yale Law Journal Editor Apologizes For ‘Unwelcoming Culture’
The prestigious Journal admitted 60 percent of black applicants in 2020, far higher than any other demographic group Yale University / Getty Images
The former editor in chief of the
Yale Law Journal apologized on Wednesday for his board’s role in what he describes as the
Journal’s troubling history of marginalization.
The apology from Alexander Nabavi-Noori came after a bevy of law school affinity groups charged that the prestigious law journal’s admissions practices are racist and demanded the
Journal release its admissions data, which showed that blacks in 2020 were admitted at a higher rate than any other demographic group.
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