UCLA-RAND Center for Law and Public Policy

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UCLA School of Law and the nonprofit RAND Corporation have entered into a unique partnership, The UCLA-RAND Center for Law and Public Policy. The center is the first formal alliance between a law school and a major policy think tank in the nation.  Its mission is to produce innovative legal scholarship that is grounded in multidisciplinary empirical analysis, which will guide legal and public policymakers in the 21st Century.  Unlike many research centers at major universities the center is not subject specific. It was created to support collaborative research in many different fields and to evolve with the doctrinal, institutional and professional changes in the law.  The main activities of the center will include ongoing stand-alone research projects on multiple topics, a speaker series and mini-conferences.  Every two years the center will identify and analyze a single critical theme in civil justice, host a conference to engage policymakers and advocates on the topic, and publish a book to disseminate findings and recommendations.  The first conference, on transparency in the civil justice system, took place in November 2007.