Faculty

Professor Eric Fish spoke to the Marshall Project for a July 15 story about Juan Aguilar, an undocumented immigrant arrested, convicted and deported to Mexico under a Florida immigration law that police and prosecutors had been blocked by a federal judge from enforcing. Aguilar is among at least 27 people arrested despite the judge’s order.

Professor Elizabeth Joh weighed in for New York Times writer Vanessa Friedman’s Aug. 1 Critic’s Notebook piece on the evolving role of masks in our society.

Friedman used immigration enforcement officers’ recent controversial use of masks and other identity-obscuring items during raids as a jumping-off point for her essay exploring the history and nature of masks in the culture.

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Professor Elizabeth Joh and longtime podcasting partner Roman Mars are collaborating on the second season of Mars’ The 99% Invisible Breakdown podcast. Their monthly The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Constitution podcast examines all 7,591 words of the U.S. Constitution, book club-style, and features a notable guest.

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Donna Shestowsky has been elected to the American Law Institute. The nation’s premier nongovernmental law reform organization, the ALI consists of eminent judges, lawyers, and law professors who have been selected, as the organization states, “on the basis of professional achievement and demonstrated interest in improving the law.”

Professor Lisa Pruitt presented at the International Sociological Association Forum of Sociology on July 10 at Mohammed V University in Rabat, Morocco.

In a July 25 piece in the Conversation,  Professor Kevin R. Johnson writes that it is far from clear that President Donald Trump’s current deportation tactics will result in fewer undocumented immigrants in the United States.

Professor Nila Bala was quoted extensively in a June 13 Law360 article about jails and prisons phasing out physical mail for incarcerated people in favor of scanned and digitized letters available via tablets. In some instances, the devices also are used in lieu of visits from loved ones and other in-person activities.

Professors Gabriel “Jack” Chin, Raquel Aldana and Kevin R. Johnson spoke to media about the widely publicized July 17 arrests of 12 people by masked Border Patrol officers in a Sacramento Home Depot parking lot.

Professor Raquel Aldana wrote a July 18 piece for The Conversation about Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ plan, endorsed by President Donald Trump, to deputize the state’s National Guard Judge Advocate General’s Corps officers to become immigration judges.