Faculty Blog

A recent study found that, in the University of California and California State University systems, the enrollment of undocumented students has decreased significantly in the last few years as the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy has be

As expected, last night's debate between the two Vice Presidential candidates, touched on immigration. While the debate was relatively civil and policy-oriented, the discussion of immigration got a bit tense at times.

CBS News summarized the discussion on immigration as follows:

Each year, at the end of the Supreme Court Term in June, I summarize the Supreme Court's immigration decisions from the current Term.  See Immigration in the Supreme Court, 2022 Term.  This post summarizes the Court's immigration decisions from the 2023 Term.  The Court has four remaining cases, wit

The Chicago Café in Woodland is the oldest Chinese restaurant in California – and possibly the United States – an interdisciplinary UC Davis research project led by Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin has found.

2023 has been an exciting year in U.S. immigration law and enforcement.  Here is my ImmigrationProf Top 10 Immigration Stories of 2023.  By way of comparison, here are the Top 10 Immigration News Stories of 2022.

I am excited to announce that the University of California Press has a new Critical Race Theory book series. Here is the website.

Series Co-Editors:

Raquel Aldana & Kevin R. Johnson, Aoki Center for Race and Nation Studies, UC Davis School of Law

Series Advisory Board:

Living the good life has often meant finding ways to allow for growth and construction while ostensibly protecting the natural environment on which we depend. Want to build a housing development, but there’s a wetland in the way? Mitigate the harm by building a new one somewhere else. Want to dam a river, but there’s a salmon run in the way?

Table of Contents

"Citizenship Outside the Courts"

-Catherine Y. Kim, Brooklyn Law School

"Border Enforcement as State-Created Danger"

-Jenny-Brooke Condon, Seton Hall Law School
-Lori A. Nessel, Seton Hall Law School

"When Migrants Mobilize Against Labor Exploitation: Evidence from the Italian Farmlands"

-Gemma Dipoppa, Brown University, Political Science

"Europeans’ Attitudes Towards Displaced Populations: Evidence From a Conjoint Experiment on Support for Temporary Protection"

Presidential campaign 2024 will be heating up and immigration will no doubt be discussed  Former President Donald Trump is rattling the sabers of tough immigration policies.   Several debates of Republican candidates for President have been held.  The candidates predictably talked tough on border enforcement.

Law develops through collective effort. A single judge may write a judicial opinion, but only after an (often large) group of lawyers choose litigation strategies, craft arguments, and present their positions. Despite their important role in the legal process, these networks of lawyers are almost uniformly overlooked in legal scholarship—a black box in a discipline otherwise obsessed with institutional detail.