2015-2016 News

Professor Rose Cuison Villazor presented a talk entitled, "Immigration Law and the Regulation of the Family, Race and Gender," at the Rutgers School of Law.

Professors Gabriel "Jack" Chin and Rose Cuison Villazor were invited to speak at the 2016 Bay Area Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) Conference on February 20. They presented their book, The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965: Legislating a New America, at a panel that was attended by current students and alumni.

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Dean Kevin R. Johnson gave a talk entitled, "Integrating Immigrants into the Community: The UC Undocumented Legal Services Center," at the State Capitol, as part of the UC Davis Capitol Speakers Series.

Professors Gabriel "Jack" Chin and Rose Cuison Villazor were invited to speak at the 2016 Bay Area Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA) Conference on February 20.

Recent media coverage of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia's absence from the Court featured comments from Dean Kevin R. Johnson. Dean Johnson was interviewed by Fox40 news and also published by the Sacramento Bee for an op-ed piece regarding the consequences of not having a nine-person Supreme Court.

The issue raised by this case was whether a Secretary of State's enforcement of a constitutional statute expose him to personal liability when the law is held to be unconstitutional.

Professor Emeritus Philip Martin was recently interviewed by Dan Charles for Capital Public Radio, for a podcast regarding the "guest" workers in Florida farms.

In a Washington Post article by Max Ehrenfreund, Professor Giovanni Peri and his research is quoted to address how immigration affects employment and employee wages in the United States.

In a recent commentary published on The Wall Street Journal, Professor Giovanni Peri and Vasil Yasenov (Ph.D. Candidate in Economics, UC Davis) explored Americans' opposition to the admittance of any refugees from Syria.

One of the main goals of the project is to examine variations in how Latinos see, perceive, report, and respond to discrimination and stereotype threat.