Professor Aldana speaks at University of Windsor law school

Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity Raquel E. Aldana was a featured speaker Feb. 27 at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law.

Her appearance at the Windsor, Ontario, campus was part of the Transnational Law and Justice Network’s Borders, Boundaries and Intersections Speakers Series. Professor Aldana’s topic was “The California/UC Davis Project to Diversify Its Faculty: Values, Strategies and Lessons.”

Professor 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.