Leticia Saucedo

Saucedo

Professor

  • School of Law
2123 King Hall

Leticia Saucedo is an expert in employment, labor, and immigration law. She taught Torts and Immigration Law and co-directed the Immigration Law Clinic at the Wm. S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) until 2010. She has developed courses in international and domestic service learning that explore the immigration consequences of crime and domestic violence in a post-conflict society.

Saucedo earned her AB, cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1984 and her JD, cum laude, in 1996 from Harvard Law School, where she was managing editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. After law school, she served as briefing attorney to Chief Justice Thomas Phillips of the Texas Supreme Court. She then became an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson in New York City, where she was the recipient of the Fried Frank MALDEF Fellowship. From 1999 to 2003, she worked as a staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas, where she litigated employment and education cases.

Saucedo's research interests lie at the intersections of employment, labor, and immigration law. Her law review articles have appeared in Notre Dame Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Buffalo Law Review, the Richmond Law Review, the Harvard Journal of Law and Gender, the Harvard Latino Law Review, the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. She is a member of the American Law Institute.

Leticia Saucedo's content

Dean Johnson, Professors Aldana, Saucedo Write for New Edition of Immigration Law Guide
The Carolina Academic Press has published the third edition of Understanding Immigration Law, which features contributions from Dean Kevin R. Johnson, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity and Professor of Law Raquel E. Aldana, and Professor Leticia Saucedo. 
Kevin R. Johnson and Leticia M. Saucedo's Co-edited "From the Bookshelves: Understanding Immigration Law Third Edition" Recently Published
The third edition of Understanding Immigration Law by Kevin R. Johnson, Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Leticia M. Saucedo, Enid Trucios-Haynes lays out the basics of U.S. immigration law in an accessible way to newcomers to the field. It offers background about the intellectual, historical, and constitutional foundations of U.S. immigration law.
Employment Authorization, Alienage Discrimination and Executive Authority
Authors: Leticia M. Saucedo. In this article, Saucedo argues that employment-authorized undocumented workers are protected from workplace discrimination even though they do not have legal status in the eyes of immigration law.
UC Davis Law Review Symposium
This Symposium examines the different forms of resistance employed by various groups, the legal challenges they faced, and the lessons they learned.
Everybody in the Tent: Lessons from the Grassroots About Labor Organizing, Immigrants, and Temporary Worker Policies
Author: Leticia M. Saucedo. In this article, Saucedo share perspectives of local residential construction workers and labor leaders collected from a series of interviews in Las Vegas, Nevada about obstacles to organizing immigrants.
Crisis Migration: an International Perspective
Researchers from UC Davis and the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy in Munich come together to present results of their studies on the social protection of “crisis migrants” including unaccompanied minors, climate change migrants, and those fleeing structural poverty.
Kevin R. Johnson discusses the Immigration Act of 1965 and the US/Mexico border enforcement in forthcoming book
In a forthcoming book entitled, "The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America," Dean Kevin R. Johnson discusses the true effects of the Immigration Act of 1965, 50 years after it had been passed by Congress.
Gabriel “Jack” Chin and Leticia Saucedo Comment on Immigration Plan for KCRA-3
Gabriel “Jack” Chin and Leticia Saucedo commented for a news report on KCRA-3 regarding President Obama’s announcement of a “deferred action” program that would allow some undocumented immigrants to stay and work in the United States legally.