Innovative Solutions and the Leaders Who Can Implement Them

Business law and policy decisions play a key role in determining whether and where jobs will be created and new businesses started – in sum, whether our economy will prosper in a global environment. By setting new standards in business law education, the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy prepares students for outstanding careers and leadership in business law as well as in business, the non-profit sector and philanthropy. The Institute simultaneously serves as a dynamic hub of research and strategy for practitioners, scholars and experts across a variety of disciplines.

A keen emphasis on innovative research at the intersection of law and business is supported by a widely recognized business law faculty, a unique blend of policy and practice courses designed to prepare students for diverse opportunities in the new economy, and a relevant slate of conferences and scholarly events that further solutions to some of the nation’s most pressing challenges. We invite you to learn more about the Institute’s transformative work and welcome you to join us in shaping the future of business law and policy.

Who We Are - A pace-setting management team led by Executive Director Andrew M. Kaufman; a distinguished advisory board; and affiliated faculty experts in bankruptcy, corporate law, corporate governance, intellectual property, international business transactions, real estate, securities regulation and tax.

What We Do - Cutting-edge, innovative curriculum based on a unique blend of policy and practice-oriented courses, while driving the agenda for research and policy reform with conferences, publications and the insights of thought leaders across a broad panoply of disciplines.

How We Support Students – Opportunities to collaborate and compete with real world experiences and diverse extracurricular activities, nurturing the next generation of business leaders and scholars through scholarships and prizes, fellowships, student organizations, and competitions, all adding depth to a state-of-the-art curriculum.

How We Make a Difference – Building a legacy of excellence through legal training, innovative research, and high-caliber symposia and conferences that facilitate sustained dialogue with policymakers and practitioners to advance solutions to critical law and policy issues. See the latest about our faculty in the news, and read the Institute’s e-newsletter.
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UCLA School of Law Receives Transformative $10 Million Gift From Alumnus Lowell Milken

UCLA School of Law has received a transformative $10 million gift — the largest single gift in the school's history. The gift from 2009 Public Service Alumnus of the Year Lowell Milken '73, a leading philanthropist and pioneer in education reform, establishes the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy. The institute's creation is the culmination of a three-year process of exploration initiated by UCLA Law leadership with Milken to develop initiatives in business and law that serve students, faculty and the greater community through innovative research, hands-on skills training and real-world problem-solving. 

To read more about the gift and the institute, please click here.


 Lowell Milken ’73 and Dean Rachel F. Moran at 
 UCLA School of Law
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Andrew M. Kaufman Named Head of UCLA's Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy

In April 2012, Andrew M. Kaufman, a professor at Vanderbilt University Law School and formerly a senior transactional partner and now "of counsel" in the Chicago office of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, was appointed executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy at UCLA School of Law.

"We are delighted to welcome Andy Kaufman to UCLA School of Law," said UCLA Law Dean Rachel F. Moran. "His real-world experience in practice and his teaching experience in transactional law make him an ideal choice to serve as founding executive director of the Lowell Milken Institute for Business Law and Policy."

Professor Eric M. Zolt, faculty director of the Lowell Milken Institute, added, "We are excited about the opportunity to work with Andy to make an already excellent business law and policy program even better."

Kaufman received his bachelor's degree (cum laude) from Yale University in 1971 and his law degree from Vanderbilt University Law School in 1974, where he was editor-in-chief of the Vanderbilt Law Review and was elected to Order of the Coif.

He is presently a member of the TriBar Opinion Committee, one of the preeminent bodies addressing legal opinions in transactional practice, and serves as program chair for the national Working Group on Legal Opinions.

He is also a member of the Uniform Commercial Code Committee, the Commercial Financial Services Committee, the Legal Opinions Committee and the Audit Responses Committee for the American Bar Association Section of Business Law.

Kaufman lectures and writes frequently on financing, commercial law and legal-opinion issues at national professional seminars and programs and in related publications. Since 2009, he has been a professor in the law and business program at Vanderbilt University Law School, teaching courses on secured transactions, transactional practice, leveraged buyouts and syndicated loan transactions in commercial lending. At Vanderbilt, he also served on the dean's board of advisors.
 
Professor Kaufman can be reached at andrew.kaufman@law.ucla.edu.