Associate Vice Chancellor Aldana to chair an ABA council, serve on another ABA board

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law Raquel E. Aldana has been appointed chair of the American Bar Association’s Latin America and Caribbean Law Initiative Council. She also has been appointed to the ABA’s Rule of Law Initiative Board.

Aldana’s yearlong appointments will commence in early August.

Raquel E. Aldana joined UC Davis in 2017. She was a professor at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, before joining the McGeorge School of Law faculty in 2009. Her scholarship has focused on transitional justice, criminal justice reforms, and sustainable development in Latin America, as well as immigrant rights in the United States. She founded and directed the McGeorge School of Law’s Inter-American Program, which trained bilingual and bicultural lawyers for transnational careers or to work with the growing Latino population in the United States. She served as the school’s associate dean for faculty scholarship, 2013-17.