Immigration and Nationality Law Review Symposium

King Hall, Room 1001

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** MCLE credits available and lunch provided.

Please join the UC Davis Immigration and Nationality Law Review for our 2024 Symposium Perpetually Punished: Removing Criminality from Immigration Law, featuring a keynote address from César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández on his new book Welcome the Wretched: In Defense of the "Criminal Alien." García Hernández reimagines immigration law untainted by the criminal legal system, arguing that, "[To insist] that life in the United States is rightly available only to people who steer clear of criminality [is to] ignore the basic reality that crime is a feature of life in the United States." 

The keynote address will be followed by presentations by a panel of scholars and practitioners on the ways in which the criminal and immigration systems intersect to produce a harmful, second round of punishment.

Agenda:

10:30 a.m. – Check In

Sign-In and Refreshments

11 a.m.

Welcome & Opening comments from Dean Johnson

11:20 a.m.

Introduction of keynote speaker 

11:30 a.m.

Keynote Presentation from César Cuauhtémoc García Hernández 

12:30 p.m. – Lunch

1:30 p.m. – Panelist Presentations

  • Gabriel “Jack” Chin, Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair of Law, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, and Director of Clinical Legal Education 
  • Holly Cooper, Lecturer, Co-Director of UC Davis Immigration Law Clinic, nationally-recognized crim-imm expert
  • Raquel E. Aldana, Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law, Co-Director of Aoki Center on Race and Nation Studies 
  • Eric Fish, Acting Professor of Law, former federal public defender, expert on federal immigration crimes 

2:30 p.m. – Break

2:35 p.m. – Panel Discussion & Audience Q&A

3 p.m. – Concluding Remarks

3:05 - 4 p.m. – Reception

Please contact Chloe Fearey or Emmanuel Estrada with any questions.