The Atlantic Cites Professor Chin's UC Davis Law Review Article

University of Virginia School of Law Professor Amanda Frost references a 2021 UC Davis Law Review article co-written by Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin in a Jan. 7 essay in The Atlantic headlined “The Coming Assault on Birthright Citizenship.”

President-elect Trump has vowed to end birthright citizenship immediately after taking office. This is a constitutionally unsound action without historical precedent even in more politically volatile and overtly racist times, Frost observes, referencing Chin’s article “Birthright Citizenship, Slave Trade Legislation, and the Origins of Federal Immigration Regulation,”  to support her argument. Chin wrote the article with Albany Law School Professor Paul Finkelman.

Gabriel “Jack” Chin is a Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law and holder of the Edward L. Barrett Jr. Endowed Chair at UC Davis School of Law. He is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.