UCLA School of Law

Lael Brainard was born in 1962, in Hamburg Germany to parents Al and Joanne Brainard. Al Brainard was a U.S. foreign-service officer who was stationed in Cold War Germany and Poland. Dr. Al Brainard received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Connecticut and his doctorate in Political Science from the University of Washington. He was one of the first US officials to develop relationships with Polish dissident movements that were instrumental in Poland’s transition to democracy. Ms.…

In Chicago he was a community organizer before he received his law. He worked as a civil right attorney and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. During 1997 to 2004 he represents the 13th districts in the Illinois senate. Since January 20, 2009, Barack Obama has been the 44th United State President. In 2012, president Obama ran for the United…

In democracy, public opinion is very important for politicians because citizens are the ones who elect their office representatives, at the same time citizens have to act together to solve collective action problems. Polls express citizens’ public opinion that government pays attention and mobilize their campaigns around these opinions. However, a person has a combination of different beliefs, feelings and behavior about politics based on information and knowledge that has been acquired…

score would go down or the score you are trying to fix would go down or stay the same. Donald John Trump was born on June 14,1946 in Queens, New York City, New York. Hes currently 70 years old. He attended Kew-Forest School and graduated from The New York Military School. Trump first got married to Ivana in 1977 and lasted till 1992. Trump and Ivana had 3 kids together; Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Trump Jr. The second time he got married was to Marla. They got married in 1993 and lasted…

major at a University in LA, who got dumped by the love of her life Warner, because he wanted to “get serious” and basically said that she wasn’t smart enough for him as in “too blonde”. To prove him wrong, Elle applied to Harvard to pursue a career in law, got accepted, and showed him that there lies a formidable brain beneath the blonde hair. Not only is this movie very groundbreaking in terms of its representation of woman but it also shows how looks can be deceiving at times. The movie…

Kagan. She was the second of three children in a middle class Jewish family living on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Kagan’s mother Gloria worked as a teacher at Hunter College Elementary School, while her father was a partner at the Manhattan Law firm Kagan &Lubic. As a student Elena attended Hunter College High School which she graduated from in 1977. Upon graduating Kagan went to Princeton where…

American president to be elected. In 2012, President Obama beat his Republican opponent, Mitt Romney and won re-election. While he lived with his grandparents, Barack Obama went to school at Punahou Academy and played basketball. In 1979, Obama graduated from Punahou University with honors. Not long after high school, Barack…

not come easy though, she overcame multiple obstacles and stuff time to get where she is now. Ginsburg was born into a low class family in Brooklyn, in a working class neighborhood. The first of her struggles came when a few days before her high school graduation her mother died to cancer which she had been fighting throughout…

extremely motivational commencement speech to the graduating class. Obama’s speech was incredibly powerful and heartfelt. She talked about the possible struggles and tough times that individuals went through to become educated, the history of the school, history of how African-Americans couldn’t become educated and several other topics. However, topic in particular stood out, and it was that countless young adults just don’t care about getting an education. Mrs. Obama says “When it comes to…

Chua and her parenting way In her article “Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior,” which was published in the Wall Street Journal on January 8th, 2011, Amy Chua, a professor at Yale Law School, claims that children who are raised by Chinese mothers grows up to be more successful in their life and have a better future than those who are raised by Western mothers. Amy Chua states that Chinese parents spend most of their time on their kids’ academic activities, while Western parent spend most of their…