Tuesday, 6 November, 4:00-5:30PM North Reading Room, Wilbur Cross Building
Immigration in a Time of Trump
Kevin R Johnson, Dean, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law, and Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis School of Law.
Kevin Johnson has taught a wide array of classes, including immigration law, civil procedure, complex litigation, Latinos and Latinas and the law, and Critical Race Theory.
Johnson has published extensively on immigration law and civil rights. His book How Did You Get to Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. Johnson’s latest book, Immigration Law and the US-Mexico Border (2011), received the Latino Literacy Now’s International Latino Book Awards – Best Reference Book.
A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Dean Johnson earned an A.B. in economics from UC Berkeley, graduating Phi Beta Kappa. After law school, he clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as an attorney at the international law firm of Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe.
Dean Johnson has served on the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern California since 1996 and currently is President of the board.
Please spread the word about Dean Johnson’s talk among your students and colleagues.
We hope to see you there,
El Instituto
