Associate Vice Chancellor Aldana teaches course in Colombia

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and Professor of Law Raquel E. Aldana traveled to Bogotá in June to teach a class as part of the Summer Academy 2019 at the Universidad de La Salle.

Her course used the Colombia-Venezuela and the United States-Mexico-Central America case studies to provide a comparative legal and political framework to understand the asylum crisis in the Americas.

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.