Today, as the result of a lawsuit brought by the UCLA Faculty Association and the Council of University of California Faculty Associations under the California Public Records Act, the Supreme Court of California ordered the release of the Trump administration’s demand letter to UCLA. Here it is.
Noah Zatz on the Law School faculty prepared the document Falling Short of Sanctuary: Understanding the Limitations of UC Protections for Immigrant and International Community Members to explain how the UC has a very incomplete conception of sanctuary, which focuses on UCPD and leaves out the many other ways UC can cooperate with ICE and the Trump administration. The bare minimum would be for the UC to refuse voluntary complicity, but the University of California (UC) has not adopted this basic principle. An accompanying FAQ is also available.
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Last fall, the UCLA FA spearheaded a broader Council of UC Faculty Associations effort to submit an Unfair Labor Practice charge regarding the UC’s handling of protest and strike activity on campus last spring. Now, the Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) has issued a complaint against the UC, finding merit in our charges that UC violated our labor rights and taking them to the next step in the legal process! This is a significant win in the fight for faculty rights on UC campuses. Stay tuned for more updates on how we will use this victory to protect our rights…
Statement of the UCLA Faculty Association on the Anniversary of the Violent Dissolution of the Palestine Solidarity Encampment Just over one year ago, a group of student anti-war activists erected a Palestine Solidarity Encampment (PSE) on Royce Quad, with the goal of bringing attention to the role of UCLA in the ongoing genocide in Gaza. In the style of previous, storied protests, students demanded divestment of UC funds from the war and war profiteers. A few days later on April 30, 2024, UCLA posted signs declaring the PSE unlawful; a few hours later, outside agitators began an attack on the…
Twenty-four professors of constitutional law released the memo “DEI Programs Are Lawful Under Federal Civil Rights Laws and Supreme Court Precedent.” The authors of the memo include four of our colleagues at the UCLA School of Law. Listen to our colleague Ariela Gross interviewed on KPBS.
