Gabriel J. Chin

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Gabriel Jack Chin is an author, legal scholar, and

In 2010, he commented for The New York Times,[5] and The Washington Post on Arizona's SB 1070 statute.^[6]

His 2008 legal analysis, which focused on a 1937 law and the language of the

In 2011, Chin supervised members of UC Davis's Asian Pacific American Law Students Association who sought posthumous admission to the State Bar of California for Hong Yen Chang, who was denied admission in 1890. In 2015, the Supreme Court of California would grant the students' petition.^[9]

Biography

In 1985 he received a

He was named in the "Most Cited Law Professors By Specialty, 2000-2007", and in the "50 Most Cited Law Professors Who Entered Teaching Since 1992", surveys by

Books

Chin has edited and contributed to a number of books, including:

• United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Asian Pacific Americans (2005)
  ISBN 978-0-8377-3105-6
• United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Voting (2005) (co-editor)
  ISBN 978-0-8377-3103-2
• United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on the Police (2005)
  ISBN 978-0-8377-3104-9
• The United States Commission on Immigration Reform: The Interim and Final Reports and Commentary (2000)
  ISBN 978-1-57588-566-7
• Immigration and the Constitution (2000) (co-editor)
  ISBN 978-0-8153-3346-3
• Affirmative Action and the Constitution (1998)
  ISBN 978-0-8153-2742-4
• New York City Policy Corruption Investigation Commissions, 1894-1994 (1997)
  ISBN 978-1-57588-211-6

• "Unjustified: The Practical Irrelevance of the Justification/Excuse Distinction", 43 Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2009)
• "Beyond the Super-Majority: Post-Adoption Ratification of the Equality Amendments", 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 25 (2008)(co-author)
• "The Tyranny of the Minority: Jim Crow and the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty", 43 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 65 (2008) (co-author)
• "Unexplainable on Grounds of Race: Doubts about Yick Wo", 2008 Illinois Law Review 1359.
• "A War on Drugs or a War on Immigrants? Expanding the Definition of 'Drug Trafficking' in Determining Aggravated Felon Status for Non-Citizens", 64 Md. L. Rev. 875 (2005) (co-author)
• Jim Crow's Long Goodbye, 21 Const. Comment. 107 (2004)
• "Race, The War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction", 6 Iowa J. Gender, Race, & Just. 253 (2003), reprinted in Civil Penalties, Social Consequences 27
• Pledging Allegiance to the Constitution: The First Amendment and Loyalty Oaths for Faculty at Private Universities, 64 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 431 (2003)
• "Effective Assistance of Counsel and the consequences of guilty Pleas", 87 Cornell L. Rev. (2002) (co-author)
• Can a Reasonable Doubt have an Unreasonable Price? Limitations on Attorney's Fees in Criminal Cases, 41 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (1999) (co-author)
• "The Civil Rights Revolution Comes to Immigration Law: A New Look at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965", 75 North Carolina L. Rev. 273 (1996).
• "The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases", 82 Iowa L. Rev. 151 (1996), excerpted in F. Michael Higginbotham, Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions 327 (2001)
• "Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship", Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 08-14 (2008).

References

External links

• Official website