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[[Haris Silajdžić]], President of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], will{{when|date=November 2013}} work closely with the program.<ref>[http://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/article.asp?parentid=97853 UCLA Today Online, September 22, 2008]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2011}} The faculty director is [[Richard Harold Steinberg]] and the executive director is David Kaye. |
[[Haris Silajdžić]], President of [[Bosnia and Herzegovina]], will{{when|date=November 2013}} work closely with the program.<ref>[http://www.international.ucla.edu/euro/article.asp?parentid=97853 UCLA Today Online, September 22, 2008]</ref>{{Failed verification|date=April 2011}} The faculty director is [[Richard Harold Steinberg]] and the executive director is David Kaye. |
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===Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy=== |
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The Williams Institute was founded in 2001 through a grant by businessman, academic, and philanthropist Charles R. "Chuck" Williams.<ref>[http://www.law.ucla.edu/news-media/Pages/News.aspx?NewsID=85 UCLA Law]</ref> Williams's inaugural donation of $2.5 million to create the Williams Institute was the largest donation ever given to any academic institution in support of a gay and lesbian academic program in any discipline.<ref>[http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/mission/ UCLA Law]</ref> |
The Williams Institute was founded in 2001 through a grant by businessman, academic, and philanthropist Charles R. "Chuck" Williams.<ref>[http://www.law.ucla.edu/news-media/Pages/News.aspx?NewsID=85 UCLA Law]</ref> Williams's inaugural donation of $2.5 million to create the Williams Institute was the largest donation ever given to any academic institution in support of a gay and lesbian academic program in any discipline.<ref>[http://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/mission/ UCLA Law]</ref> |
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A national think tank at UCLA Law, The Williams Institute produces high-quality research with real-world relevance and disseminates it to judges, legislators, policymakers, media and the public. |
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Experts at the Institute have authored dozens of public policy studies and law review articles; filed amicus briefs in key court cases; provided expert testimony at legislative hearings; been widely cited in the national media; and trained thousands of lawyers, judges and members of the public.<ref>https://www.law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/williams-institute-on-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-law-and-public-policy/about/</ref> |
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Revision as of 05:55, 1 October 2014
UCLA School of Law | |
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Motto | Fiat lux (Latin) |
Parent school | University of California |
Established | 1949 |
School type | Public |
Parent endowment | $2,810,319,000 (June 30, 2013) [1] |
Dean | Rachel Moran |
Location | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Enrollment | 1,011[2] |
Faculty | 116–138[2] |
USNWR ranking | 16[3] |
Bar pass rate | 85%[2] |
Website | www |
ABA profile | [2] |
The UCLA School of Law is the law school of the University of California, Los Angeles. It has been approved by the American Bar Association (ABA) since 1950.[5] It joined the Association of American Law Schools (AALS) in 1952.[6]
History
Founded in 1949, UCLA School of Law is currently one of five law schools within the University of California system. The others are UC Berkeley School of Law, King Hall at UC Davis, UC Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, and UC Irvine School of Law.
UCLA Law's first dean was L. Dale Coffman, who recruited elderly Harvard dean Roscoe Pound as one of the school's first professors.[7] The school was forced to operate in a Quonset hut for its first two years until a proper building was constructed. In September 1949, Pound insisted on delivering the school's first ever keynote address in the Latin language, in the Quonset hut.[8]
The UCLA Law Review, the law school's flagship scholarly journal, was first published in 1953. From 1971 to 1983, UCLA School of Law published the Alaska Law Review, a publication dedicated to the legal issues that pertain to Alaskans.[9] Additionally, the first scholarly journal in the nation focused on issues affecting Latinos, the Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review, was first published in 1972 as the Chicano Law Review.[10]
Degrees and areas of specialization
The school offers the standard Juris Doctor degree as well as several programs of specialization within the degree (which are indicated by notations on a student's diploma). Students can specialize in Business Law and Policy, Entertainment Law, Public Interest Law, Critical Race Studies, and Law and Philosophy. The roughly 300 students who begin Law School at UCLA every year are divided into sections in order to encourage a sense of community. Students take all of their first year courses with their sections.[11]
The Socratic method is still in use by most professors, but some faculty allow for a slightly more relaxed classroom atmosphere than at other top-tier law schools.[12] The school also has traditionally offered a strong clinical program, which is housed in its own wing (built at a cost of $9 million).[13] Each year, the clinical program puts students through realistic simulations of trials, depositions, and client meetings; these are staffed with a pool of nearly 500 volunteers drawn from all over the Southland who play parties, witnesses, judges, and jurors.[14]
Several joint degree programs are available, requiring four years of study, and resulting in the simultaneous award of a Juris Doctor and a Master's Degree in one of the following areas: Afro-American Studies, American Indian Studies, Law and Management, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Welfare, or Urban Planning.[15]
The school also offers a Master of Laws (LL.M.) law program, which involves one year of post-law-graduate studies. This program is popular among foreign students, who then take the California bar exam.
Finally, it offers a Doctor of Juridical Science (S.J.D.) degree, designed for students who already have a J.D. and hope to become law professors.[16]
Faculty and students
UCLA School of Law has over 100 faculty members with expertise in all major disciplines of law; it "is one of the most diverse in the country."[12]
For the class entering in the fall of 2013, 1,567 out of 5,563 applicants were offered admission (28.2%), with 293 matriculating. The 25th and 75th LSAT percentiles for the 2013 entering class were 162 and 169, respectively, with a median of 167. The 25th and 75th undergraduate GPA percentiles were 3.51 and 3.88, respectively, with a median of 3.79.[17]
The school sponsors a chapter of the Order of the Coif, a national law school honorary society founded for the purposes of encouraging legal scholarship and advancing the ethical standards of the legal profession.[18]
Location
UCLA School of Law is located on the northeastern edge of the UCLA campus in the Westwood area of Los Angeles.[19] The school is approximately five miles from the Pacific Ocean.
The school proper is housed in a five-story brick building known simply as the Law Building. The oldest parts of the Law Building's interior are notorious for a "high school atmosphere" and "dark, drafty classrooms,"[20] but have been extensively improved by the addition of the clinical wing in 1990 and the new law library in 2001. A few offices, like the Office of Career Services, are housed in an adjacent building, Dodd Hall.
The campus sits on the sloping foothills of the Santa Monica Mountains, between the communities of Brentwood to the west and Holmby Hills to the east. The entrance to the Playboy Mansion is a short way up Sunset Boulevard, in Holmby Hills. Just beyond Holmby Hills is Beverly Hills.
Rankings
In 2012 US News & World Report ranked UCLA as 15th of U.S. law schools.[3] In 2010, it had the largest student body in the UC system after Hastings, and the smallest student/faculty ratio.[21] It was the second least expensive law school in the UC system, Hastings being the cheapest.[21]
According to Brian Leiter's Law School rankings, UCLA ranks 15th in the nation in terms of scholarly impact as measured by academic citations of tenure-stream faculty during the years 2005–2009.[22]
The Hollywood Reporter ranked UCLA the number one school for entertainment law in 2012 and 2014.[23][24]
Bar passage rates
Based on a 2001–2007 6 year average, 88% of UCLA Law graduates passed the California State Bar.[25]
Post-graduation employment
American Bar Association data shows that 240 of 333 (72.1%) of 2012 graduates had secured full-time, long-term, JD-required employment within nine months of graduation. A total of 114 graduates (34.2%) had found employment in firms of more than 100 lawyers, and 16 graduates (4.8%) had secured federal judicial clerkships.[26]
Specialized Centers and Institutes
Institute for Business Law and Policy
In 2011, the business law and policy program established the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy with a 10 million dollar gift from alumnus Lowell Milken.[27] The institute focuses on research in business law and policy in bankruptcy, corporate law, corporate governance, intellectual property, international business transactions, real estate, securities regulation and tax.[28]
Center on Climate Change and The Environment
Founded in 2008 with a gift from Dan A. Emmett and his family, the Center was the first law school center established to focus on climate change. The Emmett Center curriculum details law and policy solutions to the climate change crisis locally, state-wide, nationally and internationally.[29]
Critical Race Studies Program
The only program of its kind in the United States, UCLA Law’s Critical Race Studies (CRS) program is the premier institutional setting for the study of the intersection between race and the law. Anchored by renowned scholars whose research represents the cutting edge of critical race theory in legal scholarship and related disciplines, our CRS program has no parallel in American legal education. The cornerstone of the program is an academic course of study, the CRS specialization, which attracts the top students committed to racial justice scholarship and legal practice. Established in 2000, the specialization quickly emerged as a training ground for a new generation of practitioners, scholars and advocates.[30]
International Human Rights Law Program
The International Human Rights Law Program, founded in 2008, is an organization for human rights education, scholarship, advocacy, and policy-oriented research.[31] It includes the Sanela Diana Jenkins International Justice Clinic,[32] which assists in the apprehension and prosecution of alleged war criminals in Bosnia, initially focussing on the relations between Ratko Mladic, formerly head of the Bosnian Serb Army, and others accused of involvement in the Srebrenica massacre.[33]
Haris Silajdžić, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will[when?] work closely with the program.[34][failed verification] The faculty director is Richard Harold Steinberg and the executive director is David Kaye.
Williams Institute on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Law and Public Policy
The Williams Institute was founded in 2001 through a grant by businessman, academic, and philanthropist Charles R. "Chuck" Williams.[35] Williams's inaugural donation of $2.5 million to create the Williams Institute was the largest donation ever given to any academic institution in support of a gay and lesbian academic program in any discipline.[36] A national think tank at UCLA Law, The Williams Institute produces high-quality research with real-world relevance and disseminates it to judges, legislators, policymakers, media and the public. Experts at the Institute have authored dozens of public policy studies and law review articles; filed amicus briefs in key court cases; provided expert testimony at legislative hearings; been widely cited in the national media; and trained thousands of lawyers, judges and members of the public.[37]
Real estate law
In 2001, the UCLA Law School real estate program was named in honor of Richard Ziman, who established a permanent endowment. In 2005, the Ziman center was reconstituted as a campus-wide center of both UCLA Anderson School of Management and UCLA School of Law.[38]
Program in Public Interest Law and Policy
In Spring 1996, in response to these developments and the corresponding need for better trained public interest lawyers, the UCLA School of Law established the David J. Epstein[39] Program in Public Interest Law and Policy. In 2000, the Program graduated its inaugural class of students.
Journals and student organizations
Journals and law reviews
- UCLA Law Review
- UCLA Asian/Pacific American Law Journal
- UCLA Chicano/Latino Law Review
- UCLA Entertainment Law Review
- UCLA Journal of Environmental Law and Policy
- UCLA Journal of International Law & Foreign Affairs
- UCLA Journal of Islamic and Near Eastern Law
- UCLA Journal of Law & Technology
- UCLA Pacific Basin Law Journal
- UCLA Women’s Law Journal
- National Black Law Journal
Student organizations
Notable people
Alumni
- Val Ackerman – first female president of USA Basketball (2005–2008); President of the WNBA (1996–2005)
- Leslie Abramson – criminal defense attorney who defended Lyle and Erik Menendez and Phil Spector
- Stewart Baker – Assistant Secretary for Policy, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2005–2009)
- Ann Baskins – General Counsel, Hewlett-Packard (2000–2006)
- Howard Berman – United States Congressman from California
- Thomas Bliss – motion picture producer with credits on over 30 films, including The Hurricane and Air Force One
- Harland Braun – criminal defense attorney who defended John Landis and George Folsey, Jr. against manslaughter charges in the Twilight Zone: The Movie case
- Janice Rogers Brown – judge, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals (2005–); former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (1996–2005)
- Joe Brown – former judge of the Criminal Court of the Thirtieth Judicial District of Tennessee (Shelby County); star of court show Judge Joe Brown (1998–2013)
- Rinaldo Brutoco – entrepreneur; co-founder of early pay cable company Channel 100
- Vincent Bugliosi – Attorney and writer of non-fiction works as Helter Skelter and The Betrayal of America: How the Supreme Court Undermined the Constitution and Chose Our President.
- Peter Carlisle – Former Mayor of Honolulu (2010-2013) and Prosecuting Attorney of Honolulu (1996-2010)[40]
- Anna Caballero – Secretary of the California State and Consumer Services Agency (2011–), member of the California State Assembly (2006–2010)
- Gary Chartier - professor, La Sierra University, law and business ethics (2012-), associate professor (2005-2012)
- Jeff Cohen – entertainment lawyer best known for work as child actor in The Goonies (1985)
- Drucilla Cornell – professor, Rutgers University, in political science, comparative literature, and women's studies (2001–); former professor of law at Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law (1989–1994) and Rutgers School of Law–Newark (1994–2001)
- David Dawson – member from the 14th District, Iowa House of Representatives (2013–)
- Roger Dickinson - member of the California State Assembly (2010-)
- Joshua Dressler – professor, Moritz College of Law, Ohio State University (2001–); prominent author in criminal law and criminal procedure
- Dale A. Drozd - chief magistrate judge, U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (2011-), magistrate judge (1997-2010)
- Cara Dunne-Yates – blind Paralympic athlete
- Gary Allen Feess – United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1999–)
- Robert Fitzpatrick – entertainment attorney, film producer, and music executive; President of Allied Artists International
- Richard D. Freer – professor, Emory University School of Law (1983–); expert in civil procedure
- Dolly M. Gee – United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (2010-)
- Kirsten Gillibrand – United States Senator from New York (2009-)
- Rachel Goslins - executive director, President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities (2009-)
- Cynthia Gouw – television show host, news anchor, reporter, actress, and model
- Philip S. Gutierrez – United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (2007-)
- Richard L. Hasen – Chancellor's Professor, University of California, Irvine School of Law (2011–); expert in election law and campaign finance
- Julie Heldman – retired professional tennis player
- John Howard – director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (2002–2008, 2009–)
- Sandra Ikuta – judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2006–)
- Chip Johannessen – writer and producer for several popular television shows
- Robert Clive Jones – Chief Judge, U.S. District Court for the District of Nevada (2003–)
- William B. Keene - Former California Superior Court Judge and presiding judge on the court show Divorce Court.
- William Duffy Keller - United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California (1984–)
- John Kerr - Tony Award-winning actor best known for Tea and Sympathy
- Alex Kozinski – Chief Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1985–)
- Stewart Kwoh – founder and executive director of the Asian Pacific American Legal Center
- Laurie L. Levenson – professor, Loyola Law School; TV legal commentator, gained fame during Rodney King and O.J. Simpson trials
- Alicia Limtiaco – United States Attorney of Guam
- Kalyanee Mam – director and producer of the award-winning documentary A River Changes Course
- George Mastras – writer and producer of AMC's Breaking Bad
- Lowell Milken – co-founder and chairman of the Milken Family Foundation
- Jeffrey T. Miller – judge, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California (1997–2010), Senior Judge (2010–)
- Salvador Mendoza, Jr. - United States district judge on the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington (2014-)
- Dorothy Wright Nelson – Senior Judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1979–); former Dean of the University of Southern California School of Law (1969–1980)
- Jacqueline Nguyen – judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2012–), United States district judge on the United States District Court for the Central District of California (2009–2012)
- Stephan Pastis – creator of the comic strip Pearls Before Swine
- Jerry M. Patterson – member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California's 38th Congressional District (1975–1985)
- Kelly Perdew – winner of Season 2 of The Apprentice
- Susan Westerberg Prager – former Dean of the School of Law (1982–1998) – one of the first female law school deans; Professor at the UCLA School of Law (1972–1998, 2001–2006); Provost of Dartmouth College (1998–2001); President of Occidental College (2006–2007)
- Stewart Resnick – president and CEO of Roll Global
- James E. Rogan – California State Assemblyman, 43rd District (1994–1996); Congressman from California's 27th Congressional District (1997-2001); Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Director of the USPTO (2001–2004); Judge of the Los Angeles Superior Court (2006–).
- Martine Rothblatt - co-founder of PanAmSat and Sirius Satellite Radio
- Linda Sánchez – Congresswoman from California's 39th Congressional District (2002–)
- Thomas W. Sneddon, Jr. - district attorney of Santa Barbara County (1983-2010)
- Stacey Snider - principal partner, co-chairman, and CEO of DreamWorks
- David P. Steiner – CEO, Waste Management, Inc[41]
- James Tomkovicz – professor, University of Iowa College of Law (1982); expert in criminal procedure
- Karen I. Tse – human rights activist and social entrepreneur
- Eugene Volokh – UCLA Law professor and legal commentator
- Kim McLane Wardlaw – judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (1998–)
- Paul J. Watford – judge, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (2012–)
- Henry A. Waxman – Congressman from California's 30th Congressional District (1975–)
- Jack Weiss – member, Los Angeles City Council (2001–2009)
- Lauren Woodland – Emmy Award nominated actress
- Joshua Wright – commissioner, Federal Trade Commission (2013–)
Faculty
Current
- Richard L. Abel – member of the faculty since 1974; expert on sociology of law
- Khaled Abou El Fadl – Omar and Azmeralda Alfi Distinguished Professor of Law and expert in Islamic Jurisprudence; Chairman of Islamic Studies Department at UCLA[42]
- Norman Abrams – author of leading casebooks on federal criminal law, anti-terrorism law and evidence; member of the faculty since 1959; former UCLA Vice Chancellor of Academic Personnel; former acting Chancellor
- Stephen Bainbridge – expert on corporations and business law
- Ann E. Carlson - expert on U.S. environmental law and policy
- Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw – founding coordinator of the "Critical Race Theory Workshop" movement; Also teaches at Columbia Law School
- Jill R. Horwitz - expert on health law, economics, and policy as well as the law of nonprofit organization
- Gerald P. Lopez – author of works on rebellious lawyering, community lawyering, re-entry issues and Director of the Center for Community Problem Solving
- Lynn M. LoPucki – Security Pacific Bank Professor of Law. LoPucki's Bankruptcy Research Database provides data for empirical work bankruptcy
- Daniel H. Lowenstein – expert on election law
- Jennifer Mnookin - expert on evidence (law)
- Grant S. Nelson – noted authority on real estate law
- David Nimmer – expert on copyright law
- Frances Olsen – expert on feminist legal theory
- Seana Shiffrin – expert on philosophy of law
- Richard H. Steinberg – expert on international law
- Eugene Volokh – author of textbooks on First Amendment law and academic legal writing; author of over 45 law review articles; founder of The Volokh Conspiracy weblog
- Adam Winkler - Author of Gunfight: The Battle over the Right to Bear Arms in America
Former
- Brainerd Currie – professor (1949–1952); expert on the conflict of laws in the United States
- Jesse Dukeminier – professor (1963–2003); expert on property law, wills, trusts, and estates
- Bill Felstiner – assistant professor (1973–1976); expert on sociology of law
- Jody Freeman – professor (1995-2005); expert on administrative law and environmental law
- James L. Malone – associate dean (1961–1967); later became Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs (1981–1985)
- Mari Matsuda – first female Asian-American law professor to obtain tenure at any law school in the United States, while teaching at UCLA Law in 1998
- Richard C. Maxwell – Dean of the School of Law (1958–1969)
- Melville B. Nimmer – professor (1962–1985); expert on U.S. copyright law and father of David Nimmer
- Cruz Reynoso – professor (1991–2001), former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of California (1982-1987)
- Michael H. Schill – dean and professor (2004–2009), expert on property law and urban planning
- Lynn Stout – professor (2001–2012); expert on corporate law, securities, and derivatives
References
- ^ [1] Chief Investment Officer of The Regents Retrieved August 30, 2014 (As of June 30, 2013. Of this amount, $1,275,013,000 is designated to the UC Regents for the benefit of the campus and $1,535,306,000 is held by the campus Foundation.)
- ^ a b c ABA Law School Data
- ^ a b "Best Law Schools: University of California – Los Angeles". US News & World Report. Retrieved March 13, 2012.
- ^ UCLA Law Prospective Students
- ^ "ABA-Approved Law Schools by Year". ABA website. Retrieved April 20, 2011.
- ^ AALS Member Schools
- ^ Dan Gordon, "History of UCLA School of Law: A History of Innovation," UCLA Law Magazine, Spring 2004, 10.
- ^ William Warren, "50th Anniversary of UCLA School of Law," UCLA Law Magazine, Spring–Summer 2000, 55.
- ^ Asta Corley (March 26, 2001), "Law review is one more thing setting Alaska apart", Anchorage Daily News, p. B2, retrieved December 21, 2013
- ^ journals.law.ucla.edu
- ^ Cynthia L. Cooper, The Insider's Guide to the Top Fifteen Law Schools (New York: Doubleday, 1990), 343 & 345.
- ^ a b Cooper, 345.
- ^ Cooper, 352–353.
- ^ Carol Bidwell, "Trial By Hire: Volunteers Put L.A. Students On The Spot," Los Angeles Daily News, 6 December 1998, L8.
- ^ "Joint Degree Programs". UCLA Law School website. Retrieved March 6, 2011.
- ^ "Degree Programs". UCLA Law School Website. Retrieved August 31, 2010.
- ^ http://www.law.ucla.edu/prospective-students/admission-information/Pages/incoming-class-profile.aspx
- ^ Order of the Coif member schools
- ^ Cooper, 359.
- ^ Cooper, 358–359.
- ^ a b "Best Law Schools School Comparison". US News. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
- ^ "TOP 25 LAW FACULTIES IN SCHOLARLY IMPACT, 2005–2009". Brian Leiter's Law School Rankings. Retrieved July 5, 2010.
- ^ Belloni, Matthew (July 20, 2012). "America's Top Ten Entertainment Law Schools". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 3 February 2014.
- ^ Kirby, Brandon (April 30, 2014). "Power Lawyers 2014: The Top 12 Entertainment Law Schools for Hollywood". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 6 June 2014.
- ^ "Internet Legal Research Group: University of California, Los Angeles School of Law, 2009 profile". Retrieved April 13, 2011.
- ^ http://www.lstscorereports.com/?school=ucla&show=ABA
- ^ | Los Angeles Times | August 9th, 2011
- ^ UCLA Law
- ^ UCLA Law
- ^ https://www.law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/critical-race-studies/about/
- ^ International Human Rights Law Program | Centers & Programs | UCLA Law
- ^ "Bosnian's $4 million funds UCLA war crimes clinic," San Francisco Chronicle, September 18, 2008
- ^ "Law Clinic to Focus on Bosnia," California Lawyer Magazine
- ^ UCLA Today Online, September 22, 2008
- ^ UCLA Law
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- ^ https://www.law.ucla.edu/centers/social-policy/williams-institute-on-sexual-orientation-and-gender-identity-law-and-public-policy/about/
- ^ UCLA Law
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- ^ Peter B. Carlisle, National District Attorneys Association. Accessed December 3, 2007.
- ^ "#251 David P Steiner". Forbes. April 28, 2010.
- ^ UCLA International Institute
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