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Now enrolling · Cohort 3
Next cohort begins Mar. 29, 2027.
Early registration closes Feb. 1, 2027.
Our programs
Start where your work actually needs you to.
The flagship program
Pathways to HR Executive
Accelerating the next generation of HR leaders.
A four-month program for HR professionals moving toward executive roles. Four live employment law courses taught by UCLA Law faculty, an optional negotiation workshop on campus, and a cohort of peers doing the same work you are.
Program Type: Online courses and an optional weekend on campus
What is inside
- Courses
- Four, plus an optional fifth on campus
- Format
- Live online, Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6–8pm PT
- Runs
- 29 March to 1 July 2027
- You finish with
- A UCLA Law certificate of completion
Also available
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Negotiation Theory & Strategy
Two days on campus with Vice Dean Russell Korobkin. Taken on its own, or as the optional add-on inside Pathways. Approved for 14 hours of MCLE credit.
Program Type: Two days on campus
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Professional Courses
Each of the four Pathways courses can be taken on its own, if one subject is what you actually need rather than the whole program.
Program Type: Live online
- Fundamentals of Employment Law Solid Foundations for Practitioners · Mar 2027
- Introduction to Employment Discrimination Law Apr 2027
- Wage and Hour Law Essential Compliance for Employers · May 2027
- Advanced Topics in HR Leadership Jun 2027
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Customized Programs for Organizations
Development programs designed around one organization, pairing academic depth with the problems your people are actually handling.
Program Type: Built with your team
Coming Soon
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Strategic AI for Legal Professionals
Seven modules on the legal, ethical and operational questions AI puts in front of a legal team.
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UCLA Law Summer Institute: The 1L Experience
A first-year law student's education, built for people who are not going to law school.
More programs are coming through 2027. Tell us what you are interested in and we will let you know when registration opens.
Free to attend
Bruin Bites
Free live sessions with faculty and practitioners, under an hour, on one practical question each. MCLE available. Every session is recorded, so the replay is there if you cannot make it live.
45
Minutes, start to finish
$0
Attend as many as you like
100%
Recorded for replay
Who teaches here
The same faculty who teach the degree programs.
Full-time UCLA Law faculty and leading experts in the legal industry, teaching live rather than on a recording made years ago. These are the contributors to the current Pathways cohort.
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Andrew J. Hoag, J.D., M.P.A.
Employment Law
Lecturer in Law; Partner, Fisher & Phillips LLP
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Joseph Fishkin, D.Phil., J.D.
Employment Discrimination
Professor of Law; Employment, Election and Constitutional Law
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Ireneo A. Reus III, J.D.
Wage and Hour Law
Lecturer in Law; Managing Attorney, Reus Law Firm
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Russell Korobkin, J.D.
Negotiation
Vice Dean and Richard C. Maxwell Distinguished Professor of Law
Advisory board
Shaped by the people who do this job.
Guided by an advisory board of CHROs and senior HR executives across entertainment, healthcare, nonprofit, government, transportation and beyond, Pathways to HR Executive brings industry insight to HR leadership development. Their diverse perspectives help shape a program grounded in the challenges leaders face today.
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Sonia Coleman
Senior Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, The Walt Disney Company
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Mamoon Syed
Senior Vice President and Chief People Officer, Children's Hospital Los Angeles
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Malaika Billups
General Manager, City of Los Angeles Department of Personnel
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Shawn Kang
Chief Human Resources Officer, UCLA Health
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Ellen Exum
Executive Vice President of Total Rewards, Warner Bros. Discovery
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Louis Gutierrez
Chief Human Resources Consultant
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Amy Steadman
Chief People Officer, MidPen Housing Corporation
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Nancy Antoniou
Chief Human Resources Officer, Los Angeles Times Media Group
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Natasha Milatovich
Chief Human Resources Officer, AltaMed Health Services
What participants say
“I entered the program as an HR manager with limited confidence about taking the next step in my career. Since then, I have been promoted. I credit much of my growth and confidence to the knowledge, encouragement, and support I gained through this program.”
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“Completing the program was a pivotal step in my professional journey. It deepened my legal knowledge, sharpened my strategic thinking, and positioned me for the next level of leadership in HR.”
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Kristine Marie Fisher
Academic & Faculty Affairs Manager, UCLA Medical School -
“The program offered practical tools in negotiation and compliance that are directly applicable to managing teams and leading with confidence.”
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Mel Bonilla
Program Manager, UCLA Health -
“For Human Resources professionals, this program is a wonderful career development resource to leverage your expertise and your ability to advance your career.”
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Florence Gilliam
Director of Human Resources, McKay Productions -
“The program exceeded my expectations! I gained both foundational knowledge and practical perspectives.”
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Norikazu (Kazu) Yamaguchi
HR Consultant
Participants come from organizations like these.
- Healthcare UCLA Health
- Higher education UCLA Medical School
- Government Housing Authority of the County of Santa Barbara
- Public utility West Kern Water District
- Media and entertainment McKay Productions
- Hospitality La Jolla Country Club
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You earn a certificate, not a degree.
These are professional programs. They give you the knowledge and the credential without the years, the cost or the bar exam a J.D. asks for.
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Registration is open to everyone.
There is no admissions process. If a program is open, you can register for it. People assume a law school screens applicants, and here it does not.
Who we are
A law school education is not only for people who want to practise law.
Founded in 1949, UCLA School of Law is the youngest of the top-ranked law schools in the U.S., with 21,000-plus alumni leading in government, industry, social justice and the legal profession. Executive Education is how that faculty reaches people who are not enrolled in a degree.
Most of the people who come here are not lawyers. They are professionals whose work runs into the law every week, and who need a more sophisticated understanding of it than their job has ever formally taught them.