Professor Aldana Presents at Society of Comparative Law Annual Meeting

Professor Raquel Aldana presented at the American Society of Comparative Law’s annual meeting, held Oct. 17-19 at Texas A&M University School of Law.

Aldana gave a talk titled “Climate Displacement in the LAC (Latin American and Caribbean) Region: Progress and Promise for a Just Transition.”

Raquel E. Aldana joined UC Davis in 2017 to serve as the inaugural associate vice chancellor for academic diversity with a law faculty appointment. She returned to full-time law teaching in 2020. Aldana’s research has focused on transitional justice, criminal justice reforms and sustainable development in Latin America, as well as immigrant rights. Before UC Davis, Aldana was a professor of law at McGeorge School of Law, and the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She served as associate dean for faculty scholarship at McGeorge from 2013-17. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and Harvard Law School.