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A hub of commerce and government, the city provides an ideal setting for the study of law. Students benefit from access to law firms, the courts, large corporations, government agencies and local non-profits. Especially since privatisation became popular and took management of services away from public law, private companies doing the jobs previously controlled by government have been bound by varying degrees of social responsibility. Energy, gas, telecomms and water are regulated industries in most OECD countries. As the European Court of Human Rights has stated, the law should be adequately accessible to everyone and people should be able to foresee how the law affects them. Home to cutting-edge scholars and a rich mix of courses, clinical opportunities and extracurricular engagements, UCLA Law allows students to dive deep on areas ranging from constitutional law to critical race studies, and from corporate law to public interest law …