56th Annual William H. Leary Lecture
DATE: Wednesday, March 30 2022
TIME: 5:30 pm - 7:30 pm MST
LOCATION: College of Law and Virtual Event
What Does the Asian Pacific American Legal Experience Reveal About Race in America Today?
5:30 pm, Reception, 6:00-7:30 pm, Lecture
TALK DESCRIPTION:
It is an uneasy moment for Asian Pacific Americans (APAs). Notable recent events include nationwide reports of anti-Asian violence related to the Covid-19 pandemic, and prosecutions, successful and otherwise, of allegedly disloyal Chinese American scientists pursuant to the government’s so-called “China Initiative.” Meanwhile, the Supreme Court will review whether APA applicants to Harvard and other elite schools were illegally rejected in favor of other, less worthy, applicants. In this lecture, Jack Chin will try to put this moment in historical perspective by talking about systematic racial discrimination against APAs, its connection to other people of color, and its present effects.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Jack Chin is Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. Regularly appearing on lists of the most cited legal scholars, he writes about criminal procedure, immigration, and APA legal history. His Cornell Law Review article Effective Assistance of Counsel and the Consequences of Guilty Pleas, co-authored with a student, was cited in Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010), and Chaidez v. United States, 133 S. Ct. 1103 (2013). Justice Sotomayor cited his University of Pennsylvania Law Review article The New Civil Death in her dissent in Utah v. Streiff, 136 S. Ct. 2056 (2016). His legal work with students includes persuading the Ohio legislature to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment; Kansas, New Mexico, and Wyoming to repeal anti-Asian alien land laws, and the California Supreme Court to posthumously admit an attorney to the bar after he was excluded because of his race (In re Hong Yen Chang, 334 P.3d 288 (Cal. 2015)). A graduate of Wesleyan and the Michigan and Yale law schools, before entering teaching he clerked for U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch in Denver and practiced with the Legal Aid Society of New York and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom.
His recent scholarship includes:
The War Against Chinese Restaurants, 67 Duke Law Journal 681 (2018) (with John Ormonde)
The War Against Asian Sailors and Fishers, 69 UCLA Law Review (forthcoming 2022) (with Sam Chew Chin)
A Nation of White Immigrants: State and Federal Racial Preferences for White Noncitizens, 100 Boston University Law Review 1271 (2020).
The Leary Lecture is named in honor of William H. Leary, Dean of the University of Utah College of Law from 1915 to 1950, who was renowned for his intellectual rigor and love of teaching. The Leary Lecture has been an annual event since 1965.
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