UCLA vice-chancellor of faculty relations and professor of law. Deputy general counsel for the McCone Commission, which investigated the causes of the 1965 Watts riot in Los Angeles, and founding member of the Western Center on Law and Poverty.
Human rights activist and member of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) National Advisory Council. Organizer of the Daniel Ellsberg Pentagon Papers defense team and president of the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners.