Professor Johnson Moderates Book Talk About Repatriation

Professor Kevin R. Johnson served as the moderator of a Dec. 10 event featuring University of Wisconsin-Madison Professor Marla A. Ramírez, the author of the new book Banished Citizens: A History of the Mexican American Women Who Endured Repatriation. The book talk was part of the "Making Connections: New Works in Legal History" series by the American Society for Legal History.

Kevin R. Johnson is a distinguished professor of law, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Johnson is the director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies and also has an appointment as professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He served as dean of UC Davis Law from 2008 to 2024. Johnson is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law and civil rights.