Legal Studies
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A Dream Realized: Silver Slug Award empowers first-gen student
UCSC student Stephanie Mayo-Burgos (Porter ’25, environmental studies and legal studies) pursues her dreams with the help of the Silver Slug Award.
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Advancing advocacy: Scholarship supports student’s goals in law and justice
Emmanuel Ogundipe (Stevenson ’25, legal studies) plans to pursue law school upon graduation. The Gabriel Zimmerman scholarship award is helping him towards his dream.
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UC Santa Cruz recognized as a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting
The University of California, Santa Cruz has been named a 2024 ALL IN Most Engaged Campus for College Student Voting, an honor awarded to 471 colleges and universities across the country for their efforts to increase nonpartisan democratic engagement.
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Creating community and change: Sharhonda Bossier’s path from UCSC to education leadership
Sharhonda Bossier, a UCSC undergraduate and graduate alumna and current CEO of Education Leaders of Color (EdLoC), credits the support and community she found at UCSC for shaping her career in education leadership.
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Humanizing every client
One year after graduation, Guneet Hora (College Nine ’23, intensive psychology, legal studies) works as a paralegal at the Office of the Federal Public Defender in the Western District of Virginia.
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Lessons from COVID reveal how monopoly power in the biopharmaceutical industry is evolving
In his latest paper, Politics Professor Matt Sparke and his coauthor use the case of COVID to demonstrate both the enduring problem of bio-pharmaceutical monopolies and the ways they have been extended and entrenched through complex market-state interconnections.
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Recognizing outstanding faculty and staff in the Division of Social Sciences
The Social Sciences Division’s annual fall breakfast gathered faculty and staff to celebrate the winners of four major divisional awards.
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Mark Fathi Massoud awarded Berlin Prize
Massoud’s Berlin Prize fellowship will allow him to focus on research about perceptions and experiences of shari‘a in the United States.
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Representing her community
A daughter of a Vietnamese refugee and a Mexican immigrant, Kim Bernice Nguyen advocates for her community as the youngest person to hold a seat on the Garden Grove City Council. In Jan. 2023, Nguyen announced her run for Congress.
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Challenging the costs
While at UCSC, Marisol Ornelas (Stevenson ‘24, politics and legal studies) is working to remedy the many obstacles on the road to higher education.
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Advocating for human rights
Nicole Britton was awarded the Weiss Family Scholarship in 2022. Learn more about how scholarships support students at UC Santa Cruz.
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Legal Studies Program, Santa Cruz County Public Defender’s Office partner for National Public Defense Summit
Interested in learning about the importance of public defense and criminal law? The UC Santa Cruz Legal Studies Program, in partnership with the Santa Cruz County Office of the Public Defender, the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), and the National Association for Public Defense, will host its first-ever National Public Defense Summit on…