Gabriel Jack Chin
Professor
Co-Director, Law, Criminal Justice, and Security Program
- LL.M., Yale Law School, 1995
- J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 1988
- B.A. History, Wesleyan University, 1985
Teaching Interests
- Criminal law
- Criminal procedure
- Race and law
- Criminal justice administration
Areas of Expertise
- Criminal law
- Criminal procedure
- Race and law
- Criminal justice administration
Publications and Working Papers
Books
IMMIGRATION AND THE CONSTITUTION (2000) (co-editor, with Victor Romero & Michael Scaperlanda).
THE UNITED STATES COMMISSION ON IMMIGRATION REFORM: THE INTERIM AND FINAL REPORTS AND COMMENTARY (2000) (co-editor, with the Editors of the Immigration and Nationality Law Review).
AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND THE CONSTITUTION (1998) (editor & author of introductions).
NEW YORK CITY POLICE CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION COMMISSIONS, 1894-1994 (1997) (editor & author of introductions).
Articles
Gabriel J. Chin, Roger E. Hartley, Kevin Bates, Ron Nichols, Ira Shifflet, and Salmon Shomade. (2004) Still on the Books: Jim Crow and Segregation Law Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education. Forthcoming in Rutgers Race and Law Review, Summer 2004.
The "Voting Rights Act of 1867": The Constitutionality of Federal Regulation of Suffrage During Reconstruction, 82 N.C. L. Rev. 1581 (2004).
Reconstruction, Felon Disenfranchisement and the Right to Vote: Did the Fifteenth Amendment Repeal Section 2 of the Fourteenth, 92 Geo. L.J. 259 (2004).
Are Collateral Sanctions Premised on Conduct or Conviction? The Case of Abortion Doctors, 30 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1685 (2003).
Race, The War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction, 6 Iowa J. Gender, Race, & Just. 253 (2003).
Rehabilitating Unconstitutional Statutes: A Case Study of Cotton v. Fordice, 157 F.3d 388 (5th Cir. 1998), 71 U. Cin. L. Rev. 421 (2003).
Pledging Allegiance to the Constitution: The First Amendment and Loyalty Oaths for Faculty at Private Universities, 64 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 431 (2003) (with Saira Rao).
Twenty Years on Trial: Takuji Yamashita s Struggle for Citizenship, in RACE ON TRIAL: LAW AND JUSTICE IN AMERICAN HISTORY 103 (Annette Gordon-Reed ed., 2002).
Effective Assistance of Counsel and the Consequences of Guilty Pleas, 87 Cornell L. Rev. 697 (2002) (with Richard W. Holmes, Jr.).
Regulating Race: Asian Exclusion and the Administrative State, 37 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 1 (2002).
Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Laws to Asian Americans, 1910-1950, 9 ASIAN L.J. 1 (2002) (with Hrishi Karthikeyan).
Is There a Plenary Power Doctrine? A Tentative Apology and Prediction for Our Strange but Unexceptional Constitutional Immigration Law, 14 Geo. Immigr. L.J. 257 (1999)
Can a Reasonable Doubt have an Unreasonable Price? Limitations on Attorney s Fees in Criminal Cases, 41 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (1999) (with Scott Wells).
The Blue Wall of Silence as Evidence of Bias or Motive to Lie: A New Approach to Police Perjury, 59 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 233 (1998) (with Scott Wells).
Segregation s Last Stronghold: Race Discrimination and the Constitutional Law of Immigration, 46 UCLA L. Rev. 1 (1998).
Identifying the Enemy in the War on Drugs: A Critique of the Developing Rule Permitting Visual Identification of Indescript White Powders as Narcotics at Trial, 47 Am. U. L. Rev. 557 (1998) (with Michael Blanchard).
The Civil Rights Revolution Comes to Immigration Law: A New Look at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965, 75 N.C. L. Rev. 273 (1996).
Getting Out of Jail Free: Sentence Credit for Periods of Mistaken Liberty, 45 Cath. U. L. Rev. 403 (1996).
The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases, 82 Iowa L. Rev. 151 (1996).
Double Jeopardy Violations as Plain Error under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b), 21 Pepp. L. Rev. 1161 (1994).
Professional Associations
- Member, American Law Institute
- Member, Arizona Asian American Bar Association
- Admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, New York, Massachusetts (inactive)
- Chair, 2004-05 Association of American Law Schools, Minority Law Teachers Section
Awards
- Listed in the 50 Most Cited Faculty Who Entered Teaching Since 1992, in the NEW EDUCATIONAL QUALITY RANKINGS OF US LAW SCHOOLS
- Listed in The aList: The 25 Most Notable Asians in America, AMagazine: Inside Asian America, Dec. 2001/Jan. 2002, at 61.
- Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award, Association of American Law Schools, 1998
- Thurgood Marshall Memorial Paper Prize, Southwest-Southeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, 199
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