Fellowships for those planning to work in ‘Latinx legal academia’
The UCLA School of Law was the recent recipient of a $1 million gift from alumnus Alicia Miñana de Lovelace to honor the founder of the school’s Critical Race Studies program.
The Laura E. Gómez Teaching Fellowship on Latinx People and the Law will fund fellowships for “four to five” students who plan to work in “Latinx legal academia,” the Daily Bruin reports.
The fellows “will be compensated for their research and teaching” — which includes a seminar on “how electoral, immigration and criminal law impact Latinx people” — and have a term of service of up to nine years.
Gómez, who’s set to retire, was the first director of the law school’s Critical Race Studies program, served as dean of the Division of Social Sciences, and as vice-dean of the School of Law according to her faculty page. She also was faculty advisor to the Latino student group La Raza, the Chicano-Latino Law Review, and the Womyn of Color Collective.
Miñana de Lovelace currently serves as a co-chair of the UCLA Second Century Council, which advises the chancellor on university philanthropy strategy.
