Law Faculty Participate in Campus Community Book Project
Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Law Kevin Johnson, Professors of Law Jennifer Chacón and Bill Ong Hing, and Lecturer and Director of Immigration Law Clinic Amagda Pérez will participate in a number of program events in Fall 2007 for the Campus Community Book Project (CCBP).
Now in its sixth year, CCBP was initiated after September 11th to promote dialogue and build community by encouraging diverse members of the campus community to read the same book and attend related events.
This year's book, The Devil's Highway, is described as follows: In this work of grave beauty and searing power, one of the most widely praised pieces of investigative reporting to appear in recent years, we follow 26 men who in May 2001 attempted to cross the Mexican border into the desert of southern Arizona, through the deadly region known as the Devil's Highway, a desert so harsh and desolate that even the Border Patrol is afraid to travel through it, a place that for hundreds of years has stolen mens' souls and swallowed their blood. Only 12 of the men made it out.
Program Events with School of Law Faculty
October 1: History of U.S. Immigration Policy
Bill Ong Hing, UC Davis School of Law
12:10-1:30 pm at MUII
Oct. 18: Book Discussion
Kevin Johnson, UC Davis School of Law
12:10-1:30 pm at UCD Bookstore
October 24: Why Do We Blame Immigrants. . . for Everything? Borders, Racism, Capitalism, and the War on Terror
Kevin Johnson, UC Davis School of Law, Moderator;
Kelly Lytle Hernandez, UCLA, Overview of U.S. History of Migration, Borders, Race and State Violence;
Danielle Mahones, Executive Director of the Center for Third World Organizing, Rhetorics Blaming Undocumented Immigrants;
Amagda Pérez, UC Davis School of Law, Immigration Law Clinic
5:30-7:00 pm at MUII
Nov. 8: Dying to Leave? People Smuggling in the U.S. and Beyond, film excerpts and panel discussion
Jennifer Chacón, UC Davis School of Law
David Kyle, Sociology
Benjamin Lawrance, History
4:10-6 pm at MUII
Nov. 14: Dying to Leave
Discussion with Jennifer Chacón, UC Davis School of Law
4:10-6:00 pm at 106 Wellman
Nov. 28: Panel on Immigration Policy and Enforcement with Luis Alberto Urrea
Miroslava Chavez-Garcia, Moderator
Philip Martin, Agricultural Economics
Julia Mendoza '08, UC Davis School of Law, Immigration Law Clinic
4:00-5:15 at Jackson Hall, Mondavi Center for the Arts