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"No, I Can't Leave Political Conversations at the Door": From a Mixed-Status Household to Undocumented College Student Advocacy

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

"No, I Can't Leave Political Conversations at the Door": From a Mixed-Status Household to Undocumented College Student Advocacy

"El Oro No Se Toma, El Agua, Si:" Environmental Defense and the Task of Transnational Solidarity Among the Salvadoran Diaspora

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

"El Oro No Se Toma, El Agua, Si:" Environmental Defense and the Task of Transnational Solidarity Among the Salvadoran Diaspora

The Latino Electorate: Shaping Texas Politics

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

The Latino Electorate: Shaping Texas Politics

It's Not Us, It's Them: Advancing Your Career Despite Decision-Makers' Struggle to Recognize Latina Potential

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

It's Not Us, It's Them: Advancing Your Career Despite Decision-Makers' Struggle to Recognize Latina Potential

Latinx Heritage Preservation: Challenges, Successes, and Solutions

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Texas’ Mexican heritage is an integral yet often overlooked part of its history. Despite the state’s origins as part of México, the preservation of Latinx historical sites remains inadequate, as many sites are neglected, destroyed, or forgotten. This Comment explores the challenges and opportunities in preserving Latinx heritage in Texas, focusing on the legal and policy frameworks at both federal and state levels. Through a comparative case study of two segregated “Mexican Schools”—the Roosevelt School in Mission, Texas, which was demolished, and the Blackwell School in Marfa, Texas, now a national historic site—this Comment highlights the disparities in preservation efforts and the factors that contribute to its success or failure.

This Comment begins by examining federal Latinx heritage initiatives, such as early National Park Service designations misconstruing Spanish heritage sites as Latinx sites and imposing...

Volume 41.1 Front Matter

Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000

Volume 41.1 Front Matter

Ghost Warrants and Mistaken Arrests: How They Haunt the Marginalized

Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

Shortly before America’s police brutality protests of 2020, a new term emerged for an old phenomenon in the criminal legal system: ghost warrants. These warrants are the result of outdated and sometimes inaccurate or incomplete information. Yet they continue to repeatedly land innocent people in jail, sometimes for months at a time. In essence, they haunt those they affect. During their detention, victims are susceptible to losing jobs, housing, and even family. Mistaken arrests disproportionately impact marginalized communities, specifically Black, Latine, poor, mentally ill, and immigrant populations. Hurdles compound when someone belongs to more than one of these communities or when they are the unfortunate victim of mistaken AI facial recognition.

Currently, there are few paths to clearing up such warrants, nor is there a widespread awareness among those with the power to create such pathways. A major underpinning of the challenge both victims and criminal defense...

How Our Stories Shape Our Work: Fighting for the Heart of Texas

Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

My work has always been and will continue to be guided by my brother Robby’s life and influence on my understanding that the fight for civil rights and liberties is, at its core, a fight for human dignity. It is about each of us deserving the right to be recognized as an individual, and the vehicle for that recognition is through the law. After all, the law is only a tool—it can build, or it can destroy—and I want to use it to build a state and country that is big enough for all of us.

Still Too Few and Far Between: The Status of Latina Lawyers in the U.S.

Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This Report addresses a significant paradox within the U.S. legal profession: While Latinas represent 9.4 percent of the nation’s population, they only account for approximately 3 percent of attorneys, with even fewer in leadership roles across the legal profession. Following the 2009 research findings of the Hispanic National Bar Association’s Latina Commission, this Report provides a comprehensive examination of Latina attorneys’ and law students’ statistical representation and growth over the past fifteen years. The positive trend of more Latinas entering law school provides a beacon of hope for increased representation of Latina attorneys in the future. Despite this progress, disparities persist. Latinas encounter lower acceptance rates into top-ranked law schools, wage gaps, and remain significantly underrepresented in top legal roles in law firms, corporate law offices, the judiciary, and legal academia. These findings highlight the need for heightened commitment and systemic...

Fireside Chat: The Life and Legacy of Ambassador Vilma Martínez

Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This transcript captures an interview with one of law’s greatest Latina leaders: Ambassador Vilma Socorro Martínez. The interview occurred at the inaugural Latina Futures: Transforming the Nation Through Law & Policy Symposium on January 21, 2024, at UCLA’s Luskin Center. The Chicanx-Latinx Law Review’s Editor-in-Chief, Evelyn Sanchez Gonzalez, and Chief Articles Editor, Luz Murillo, had the honor and privilege of interviewing the Ambassador, specifically on two topics: her impressive civil rights career at the NAACP and MALDEF, and her thoughts on future leadership towards re-building democracy. This transcript only captures a small portion of her massive contributions to law and the reader is encouraged to continue learning about her legacy. It has been lightly edited for readability. An audio recording is also available with UCLA’s Latino Policy & Politics Institute.

Persistent Inequities and Underrepresentation as the Genesis of the 2024 Latina Futures Symposium

Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

The true impact of the Symposium will be defined in three key ways: 1) the direction and magnitude of Latinas teaching at U.S. law schools, 2) the fluency of people in positions of power to integrate a Latina lens to decision-making across issues, and 3) the frequency and breadth of Latina-led interventions to build infrastructure that substantively responds to the needs of Latinas and similarly situated populations. Until then, today’s dereliction of law and policy to integrate Latina leaders into positions of power and influence requires a new narrative, one that articulates a basis for institutional, structural, and systemic remediation of white-led, white-serving institutions, should society attempt to meaningfully salvage the nation’s frail democratic institutions. Ultimately, the persistence of a status quo that renders Latinas and other similarly situated cohorts invisible, unimportant, or worse, erased, is not only perilous, but unsustainable. Present and future existential...

Front Matter

Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

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Education Inequity for Mixtec Students in California Public Schools: A Human Rights Approach to Educating Indigenous Students Not Recognized By the U.S. Government

Tue, 4 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000

This Comment examines the educational experiences of Indigenous Latine communities within the California public education system, utilizing existing state and federal law in conjunction with human rights framework outlined in the United Nations Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (U.N. Declaration). While the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) provides certain protections and programs for Native American students, the narrow statutory definition of “American Indian” excludes Indigenous Mexican students, hindering their access to critical educational benefits. Through a comprehensive analysis spanning historical, political, and legal contexts, this Article elucidates the systemic disparities faced by Indigenous Latine students, particularly focusing on the case study of Mixtec-speaking Indigenous Mexican students in a California school district.

Part I of this Comment outlines the human rights framework established by the U.N. Declaration, juxtaposing the educational...

From a Public Defender: to Career Prosecutor: How Cruz Reynoso Changed the Trajectory of My Life

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Justice Cruz Reynoso, my law school Professor and mentor, had a profound impact on my life.

Three Lessons I Learned from Cruz Reynoso

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The passing of civil rights attorney, judge, and law professor Cruz Reynoso in 2021 brought to mind my own experiences learning from this remarkable man. As a law clerk, attorney, and legal academic I had the opportunity to see Justice Reynoso in adversity, triumph, and scholarship. His resilience, humility, and creativity made him a model of what a committed and conscientious legal professional should be.

Cruz Reynoso: A Beacon of Hope for Justice

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Justice Reynoso cared about people. He didn’t need the accolades, wealth, nor titles: he needed to be close to his community. He showed up for people when they needed him the most. He was a community organizer, litigator, expert witness, and mentor to countless students as a means of building for the future. He sowed the seeds for a more just and inclusive society and we owe him to continue his legacy.

Front Matter

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Cruz Reynoso's Fight for Justice

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This Article considers Cruz Reynoso’s pioneering legal career marked by an unswerving devotion to the struggle for justice for all. Part I highlights his foundational work as executive director of California Rural Legal Assistance, a revolutionary legal services organization that continues to thrive in its mission of ensuring justice for the poor in California’s rural heartland. Part II offers highlights of Justice Reynoso’s time on the California Court of Appeal, before his appointment as the first Latino. Part III reviews his scholarly and teaching accomplishments as a law professor and social justice activist.

Justice Reynoso's Legacy in Context

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This speech was delivered as welcoming remarks at the 2022 CLLR Symposiummarking Justice Cruz Reynoso’s career.

Cruz Reynoso: A Son's Perspective

Thu, 12 Oct 2023 00:00:00 +0000

I am Len ReidReynoso—the eldest son of Cruz Reynoso. Dad passed away on May 7, 2021. Following the 2022 Symposium honoring the life and legacy of my Dad, the Chicanx-Latinx-Law Review approached me to write about Dad. I wondered how I could best honor him. Dad had expressed disappointment that much information written about him didn’t sufficiently focus on his family. In this piece, I share my personal perspective as Cruz Reynoso’s son. In doing so, I hope to add another layer of understanding Cruz Reynoso.

The COVID Ceiling

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Throughout the pandemic, Mother-Scholars, one of many types of “super-moms,” have persisted despite the burdens of gender inequity in academia and the challenges of bearing the bulk of the domestic duties at home. The deep networks of help and social capital, referred to as familismo in Latina/x/o parenting discourse, that have historically helped super-moms be productive, coupled with strong self-care habits that have helped super-moms survive in academia, were slowly unraveling as a result of distancing and isolation measures that were aimed at curbing the spread of COVID-19. Mother-Scholars, now a village of one or two, with less scholarship, devalued productivity, and increased psychological distress, are less likely than ever to achieve tenure, receive grant awards, and assume leadership roles, particularly in legal education. Challenges exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, and lack of adequate responses to those challenges, are subjecting Mother-Scholars to a new kind...

Geographic and Linguistic Belonging: A Prerequisite for Full Constitutional Rights

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Despite widespread pressure, the Supreme Court has not overruled the Insular Cases, a set of cases the Court decided between 1901-1922 which are infamous for their racist rhetoric and their determination that the Constitution should not apply in full to all Americans. Serving as part and parcel of the Anglo-Saxon colonialist project, these cases helped generate a conception of American “belonging” that excludes non-white or non-English-speaking individuals. Today, this legacy manifests through discriminatory border protection policies and perpetuations of an English linguistic supremacy, both which serve to denigrate Latine individuals and which leave them with more tenuous access to justice. While overruling the Insular Cases is long overdue, the ethno-racialized system of exclusion that they perpetuated is so deeply entrenched into our society that departing from the cases’ deplorable legal precedents today would not suffice to prove that the country has abandoned their...

Latinx: Reserving the Right to the Power of Naming

Wed, 27 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The label Latinx was originally conceived of by activists and academics to be inclusive of non-binary and LGBTQIA people, but when it came into wider use in the mid-2010s, it generated pushback from both conservatives and moderates. Recently there have been attempts to ban the term by a governor and a state legislature, with even Democratic Arizona Representative Rubén Gallego expressing his disgust for the term. This article examines the political debate, the history of the use of the term, and the underlying arguments that have arisen during this era of racial reckoning.

Front Matter

Fri, 1 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

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Luminarias: An Empirical Portrait of the First Generation of Latina Lawyers 1880-1980

Fri, 1 Sep 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Luminarias are the country’s first Latina solo practitioners, law firm associates and partners, corporate counsel, prosecutors and public defenders, legal aid and civil rights attorneys, law professors, federal, state, and local judges, and the first Presidential Appointments requiring U.S. Senate confirmation (PAS) who are Article III judges, U.S. Ambassadors, U.S. Attorneys, and high-level appointees to U.S. Agencies, commissions, and boards. These are “las primeras–the firsts” in their respective fields across all segments of the legal profession. Few Luminarias, such as our first Latina Associate Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, federal judges, state Supreme Court Justices, U.S. Ambassadors, and U.S. Attorneys are well known within the legal profession and beyond. Most, however, are not nationally renowned. Many Luminarias have passed without their contributions being documented or recognized beyond their families and local communities, to the extent they were known....

Tue, 4 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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How States Can Play a Role in Abolishing Immigration Prisons

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

On October 11, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed the strictest ban on private prisons in the country. California Assembly Bill (AB) 32 would phase out all privately-run prisons, including immigration prisons, by 2028. As the first prison abolition legislation of its kind in the United States, AB 32 brought to light the mounting concern regarding the cruel nature of immigrant detention as well as increasing outrage over serious abuses at for-profit prisons.

This article is the first to explore this landmark legislation and analyze its legal and policy implications in the movement for immigrant prison abolition. After setting forth a brief history on the growth of private detention, this article discusses AB 32’s pathway through the courts. The article concludes by arguing that AB 32 can serve as an important illustration for other states where federal action has fallen short. While in 2021 President Biden signed an executive order to end Department of Justice...

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Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Tired and (Inherently) Prejudiced: Disposing of the Prejudice Requirement for Lack of Counsel in Removal Proceedings

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Every year, hundreds of thousands of immigrants appear before the immigration courts in removal proceedings. Removal proceedings have long raised issues regarding due process and an immigrant’s rights. The statutory right to counsel is one such right that inspires such questions of due process. Although noncitizens have a statutory right to counsel in immigration courts, the government has no obligation to provide an attorney to those who cannot afford one.

The problem is that immigration judges are denying the statutory right to counsel in removal proceedings; therefore, noncitizens are appearing before immigration judges without a crucial procedural safeguard. Noncitizens with counsel are more likely to seek relief from removal and actually win their case. There is a circuit split as to whether federal circuit courts should require a noncitizen to show that they were prejudiced by lack of counsel in removal proceedings.

This Comment argues that the federal circuit...

A Rebuttal to "Arréglate Ese Pajón": Reflections on Natural Hair Movements, the Crown Act, and #betraylatinidad

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

The CROWN Act is a huge achievement for multiple jurisdictions in the United States. However, legal shifts alone cannot do the work of dismantling a systemic culture of anti-Blackness in public and private space. This Article argues that profound cultural shifts must accompany political and legal shifts around an anti-Black history of hair policing. One example of a cultural shift advanced by Black activists, creators, and artists is the creation of natural hair salons, a social space that performsthe work of celebrating Black hair amid a harmful culture of respectability politics and Eurocentrism.

To advance this argument, this Article focuses on the happenstance of the passage of the CROWN Act at the same time as another significant development in the United States: the opening of Miss Rizos Salon in New York City. Miss Rizos Salon made its own name as one of the first natural hair salons in the Dominican Republic, an achievement borne of Black-centered organizing...

Capítulo 3. de Cómo una Frágil Afirmación de la Blancura Modeló las Relaciones de los Mexicano-Estadounidenses con los Indios y los Afroamericanos

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Este capítulo explora estas dinámicas enfocándose en las élites mexicanas, que proactivamente navegaron la transición desde el orden racial hispano-mexicano hacia el orden racial anglo-estadounidense. En su estudio sobre Hawái, la antropóloga Sally Merry ha identificado “la ambigua y contradictoria posición de las élites colonizadas” que respondían a la colonización estadounidense allí “con varios grados de complicidad, resistencia y acomodamiento.”5 La posición de las élites mexicanas bajo la colonización estadounidense fue igualmente fracturada y compleja. La doble colonización de Nuevo México, como una región colonizada primero por los españoles y luego por los estadounidenses, hizo que la posición de las élites nativas fuera especialmente delicada. En el momento de la invasión estadounidense, las élites mexicanas incluyeron al pequeño grupo de verdaderos colonos españoles, pero también a una gran proporción de mestizos que habían escalado más alto en la escalera del estatus...

"Sunset Park is Not for Sale": Gentrification, Rezoning, and Displacement in Brooklyn's Sunset Park

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

Legal scholars and sociologists have explored the dynamics of gentrification in New York City. Yet, comparatively fewer scholars, among them Professor Tarry Hum, Chair of the Queens College Department of Urban Studies, have written about the matrix of class, immigration, and displacement in Sunset Park. No legal scholarship currently looks into the fight for Industry City. This Article seeks to document the processes of gentrification and rezoning as they have manifested in Sunset Park, vis-à-vis the fight to rezone Industry City. Parts I and II provide a primer on gentrification and rezoning before narrowing in on Industry City and arguments against rezoning that are particular to this area. Though I focus on the uniqueness of Sunset Park, I argue that the fight over Industry City is not a one-off example of corporate entrepreneurship lured by the promise of a working waterfront. Rather, this rezoning proposal is the natural progeny to decades of government failures and corporate...

Thu, 18 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0000

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Fri, 8 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Capítulo 2: Donde Los Mexicanos Encajan En El Nuevo Orden Racial

Fri, 8 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Capítulo 2: Donde Los Mexicanos Encajan En El Nuevo Orden Racial

Imagining Alternatives? Latin American Scholarship on International Economic Law and the Global Economic Order

Fri, 8 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

This Article analyzes the role of Latin American international economic law scholarship within the global economic order. Many of the problems that Latin Americans face today relate to the global economy, such as labor conditions, access to medicine, and the use of natural resources, among others. The discussion of these problems, however, seldom recognizes the role of international economic law scholarship. Although the knowledge created by this scholarship may not completely explain why States actively behave in a certain way, it can serve to explain why they may refrain from certain actions. This Article argues that scholarship on international economic law plays a crucial role in the creation and reproduction of the current global economic order. If this claim is correct, regional scholarship can do more for Latin America than serving the advisory and litigation needs of States. By recognizing its role in constituting the global economic order, international economic...

Riding the Plessy Train: Tracking in the Lower Courts

Fri, 8 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Riding the Plessy Train: Tracking in the Lower Courts

O’odham Niok? In Indigenous Languages, U.S. “Jurisprudence” Means Nothing

Fri, 8 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

O’odham Niok? In Indigenous Languages, U.S. “Jurisprudence” Means Nothing

The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act as Antecedent to Contemporary Latina/o/x Migration

Fri, 8 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

The 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act as Antecedent to Contemporary Latina/o/x Migration

Front Matter

Fri, 8 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

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Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Senate Bill 4: Police Officers' Opinions on Texas' Ban of Sanctuary Cities

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Senate Bill 4: Police Officers' Opinions on Texas' Ban of Sanctuary Cities

Undocumented Migration From the Other Perspective: Coloniality, Subaltern Subject, and Migrant Mapping

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Undocumented Migration From the Other Perspective: Coloniality, Subaltern Subject, and Migrant Mapping

Foreword

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Foreword

La Colonización Estadounidense del Norte de México y la Creación de los Mexicano-Estadounidenses

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

La Colonización Estadounidense del Norte de México y la Creación de los Mexicano-Estadounidenses

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

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Access to Higher Education for Social and Economically Disadvantaged Groups: Law Schools of Puerto Rico

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Access to Higher Education for Social and Economically Disadvantaged Groups: Law Schools of Puerto Rico

Riding the Plessy Train: Reviving Brown for a New Civil Rights Era for Micro-Desegregation

Thu, 21 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Riding the Plessy Train: Reviving Brown for a New Civil Rights Era for Micro-Desegregation

Foreword

Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Foreword from the Editors

Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

Contents

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Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

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(Un)Sustainable Community Projects: An Urban Ethnography in a Barrio in Las Vegas

Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

This essay and the accompanying study are part of a broader project, Southern Nevada Strong (SNS), which seeks to improve housing, safety, transportation, and employment opportunities in areas of high need in the Las Vegas, Nevada metropolitan area. The study examined the living conditions for Chicanx/Latinx residents in Barrio 28th Street, employing urban ethnographic methods as part of the community-input phase of SNS.

Although barrios are cultural and historical places of solidarity for Chicanx/Latinx urbanism and spaces of resistance from white Euro-centric influence, they are also spaces of segregation and repression characterized by poor urbanism and inadequate urban policies. Barrio 28th Street is impoverished, with areas of high need. Resident concerns revolve around safety issues, drug problems, and poor housing conditions. Barrio 28th Street is deficient in all the areas SNS seeks to improve yet, despite the deteriorated condition of housing and profound resident...

Combatting California's Notario Fraud

Thu, 2 Nov 2017 00:00:00 +0000

The state of California is home to the largest undocumented immigrant population in the United States (U.S.), housing one-fourth of our nation’s undocumented immigrants. Because of its unsurpassed undocumented immigrant population, California is a breeding ground for notario fraud, which is essentially the unauthorized practice of immigration law.

The long-awaited opportunity to effectively address notario fraud has arrived, as Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis co-authored a motion to create a licensing program for immigration consultants, which includes payment rates for service and penalties for violations. The motion was passed on September 13, 2016. Once in place, the licensing program and other regulations in this motion provide an opportunity for Los Angeles County—home to more undocumented individuals than any other area in California—to set an example for the rest of California, other states, and eventually the federal government as to what type of laws...

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Mon, 31 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Misery Acquaints a Man with Strange Bedfellows: A Plan to Pass Immigration Reform

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Hardship Reconstructed: Developing Comprehensive Legal Interpretation and Policy Congruence in INA § 240A(b)’s Exceptional and Extremely Unusual Hardship Standard

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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When Desegregation Limits Opportunities to Latino Youth: The Strange Case of the Tucson Unified School District

Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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Thu, 27 Oct 2016 00:00:00 +0000

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CREATING WISE CLASSROOMS TO EMPOWER DIVERSE LAW STUDENTS: Lessons in Pedagogy from Transformative Law Professors

Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Many of today’s law students experience a triple-threat. They suffer from the solo status that accompanies being a member of an underrepresented group, the stereotype threat that accompanies being a member of a stereotyped group, and the challenges that attend lacking a background in the law before beginning law school. But today’s law schools often fail to create safe1 environments, teach foundational content and skills, or take basic steps toward providing instruction that ensures students from all backgrounds are empowered to thrive. While much has been written about improving legal education and about the failure of current pedagogies to provide a sound education to students experiencing this triple-threat, little has been written about approaches that ensure that these students succeed. This article is an attempt to identify an initial pathway forward. It builds off of research regarding legal pedagogy, inclusive pedagogy, and the results of eleven in-depth-interviews...

Foreword

Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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“COMO UNA JAULA DE ORO” (IT’S LIKE A GOLDEN CAGE): The Impact of DACA and the California DREAM Act on Undocumented Chicanas/Latinas

Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

This study utilizes a Latina/o Critical Theory (LatCrit) framework to examine how undocumented and formerly undocumented Chicana/Latina college graduates are impacted by the California DREAM Act (Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors Act, S 1291) and DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), recent state and federal policies meant to increase educational and economic opportunities for undocumented youth who meet certain requirements regarding age, education, criminal record and time in the U.S. Findings indicate that the historical contradictions of access and restriction of legal protections and opportunities for the undocumented continue with these policies and become lived in the daily experiences of the study participants. Longitudinal data includes a series of two interviews conducted in 2008 with 10 undocumented Chicana/Latina undergraduates, and a series of two additional follow-up interviews conducted in 2013-2014 with 9 of the original 10 participants,...

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Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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“WE DON’T THINK OF IT AS SEXUAL HARASSMENT”: The Intersection of Gender & Ethnicity on Latinas’ Workplace Sexual Harassment Claims

Fri, 29 May 2015 00:00:00 +0000

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Tue, 27 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

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BREATHING DIFFERENCE, SHARING EMPOWERMENT

Mon, 26 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

We celebrate Margaret E. Montoya’s Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas as a canonical article in critical race theory because its deft interweaving and unbraiding of stories helps us consider the marginalizing assumptions of the legal world, the way normativity translates into authority, and the means by which the mainstream is disguised as unbiased. She does these things effectively through an exercise of courageous candor that lays bare the kind of feelings and thoughts that we usually keep to ourselves or only share with intimates.

MÁSCARAS Y TRENZAS: REFLEXIONES UN PROYECTO DE IDENTIDAD Y ANÁLISIS A TRAVÉS DE VEINTE AÑOS

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

From their inception, names—including first names, surnames, names of groups, and even story, book, and academic article titles—are embedded with meaning and coded with identity, and over time, they become layered with nuance and memory. In 1992, when I wrote my original article, I named it “Máscaras, Trenzas, y Greñas,” using Spanish to embed a rhetorical signal to the reader that s/he was being invited into the lived experiences (and legal reasoning) of a Latina. The first of several narratives begins with me as a seven-year-old child in Las Vegas, New Mexico. Thus, the article begins in “Brown space”—that is, the location, the perspective, the idioms, and the cultural references are intentionally racially and ethnically “Brown,” with skin color and phenotype serving as a synecdoche for the Latina/o racial category.

FOREWORD: A TRIBUTE TO MARGARET MONTOYA

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Dean Moran provides opening remarks to the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review symposium, "Un/Masking Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Marginal Identities in Legal Academia."

FOREWORD

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Foreword and Editor's Note for Volume 32, Issue 2 of the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review.

NAME NARRATIVES: A TOOL FOR EXAMINING AND CULTIVATING IDENTITY

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

From their inception, names are embedded with meaning and coded with identity, and over time, they become layered with nuance and memory. This was the first and last sentence in the reflection I wrote in 2013 to mark the twenty years that had passed since I wrote the article, Máscaras, Trenzas y Greñas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse, which was the focus of the symposium volume in which this essay now appears.

We, the collaborators in the ongoing Name Narrative projects that are described in this short article, are three Latinas and one Native woman: Irene found Name Narratives to be a salient pedagogical tool in her Introduction to Chicana/o Studies course in Fall 2013. Diana and her colleague, Jeannette Stahn, have used the Name Narrative tool with administrators, teachers and students. Diana and I are a mother-daughter pair who have worked side-by-side in different settings, more recently creating opportunities for...

SURVIVING, RESISTING, AND THRIVING [?] IN THE IVY LEAGUE

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

Remarks shared at the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review symposium, “Un/Masking Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Marginal Identities in Legal Academia."

REVELATIONS: COMMEMORATING THE THEORETICAL, METHODOLOGICAL, AND POLITICAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF PROFESSOR MONTOYA’S MÁSCARAS

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

What a pleasure and honor to be celebrating the historic work of my sister-colleague, the sublime Margaret Montoya. It is doubly meaningful that this symposium is so thoughtfully coordinated with the one tomorrow, honoring the amazing Mari Matsuda. Events like these truly induce writer’s block, as the momentous import of the occasion seems to overwhelm our mere mortal ability to articulate an appropriate level of insight and wisdom that might even approach the original brilliance of a piece like Máscaras. Forgive me in advance, as I am certain I will fall short in such a tall task.

LIFE AND LEGAL FICTIONS: REFLECTIONS ON MARGARET MONTOYA’S MÁSCARAS, TRENZAS, Y GREÑAS

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

This essay is based on a presentation made as part of “Un/Masking Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Marginal Identities in Legal Academia,” a symposium sponsored by the UCLA Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review, April 5, 2013.

EXPOSING THE INSTITUTIONS THAT MASK US

Sat, 24 May 2014 00:00:00 +0000

I am going to stand in tribute to Professor Montoya and her family and to the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review, which brings us to this point where we are considering and celebrating Professor Montoya’s Máscaras, Trenzas, Y Greñas: Un/Masking the Self While Un/Braiding Latina Stories and Legal Discourse, twenty years after its initial publication. Professor Montoya’s article is timeless.

INTRODUCTION

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Remarks shared at the Chicana/o-Latina/o Law Review symposium, “Un/Masking Power: The Past, Present, and Future of Marginal Identities in Legal Academia."

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Foreword

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Our first open access publication of the Chicana/o Latina/o Law Review discusses the intersection of healthcare and immmigrants.

The Health of Undocumented Mexicans in New York City

Thu, 16 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000

In partnership with the Center for Urban Epidemiologic Studies, andin collaboration with diverse institutions and individuals, the Centerfor Community Problem Solving completed a study of the health of 431 undocumented Mexicans in New York City. Informed by a robustly democratic rebellious vision of problem solving and by adecidedly unorthodox rival theory of undocumented Mexican migra- tion, the study reveals patterns that, if fortified by further investigation, might well change how we think about the health of undocumented Mexicans, how we allocate resources, and how we target interventions. In this Article, Professor Gerald P. López analyzes how this study – more accurately, the effort of which the study is a part – aims at once to close two gaps: the gap between what we now know and what we might learn about the health of undocumented Mexicans in New York City, and the gap between what we typically do now through our practices and what we might do through a...

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