Law

Authors: Gabriel J. Chin, Cindy Chiang, and Shirley S. Park. This article proposes that in 1957, the Supreme Court came close to applying Brown v. Board of Education to immigration law.

Author: Kevin R. Johnson. Over the past few years, state legislatures have passed immigration enforcement laws at breakneck speed. As one commentator characterized it: Immigration law is undergoing an unprecedented upheaval.

Authors: Gregory S. Schneider, and Gabriel J. Chin. On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed S.B. 1070 into law, igniting a national controversy about the law and immigration generally.

Authors: Gabriel J. Chin, Carissa B. Hessick, Toni Massaro, et. al. The summer of 2010 may prove to be an especially historic one for immigration policy in the United States.

Author: Gabriel J. Chin. This article examines the position of noncitizens in the United States. For some noncitizens, particularly those without legal status, courts treat unlawful entry or removability as a quasi-crime, negatively affecting the case in ways similar to the effect of a prior criminal conviction.

Authors: Jeff Yates, Gabriel J. Chin, and Todd A. Collins. In this article they assess competing interpretations of the Immigration and Nationalization Act’s ‘aggravated felony’ provisions.

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.

Authors: Gabriel J. Chin, Douglas M. Spencer. This article introduces novel evidence to evaluate that claim: the roll call votes of the House and Senate on these laws.