Professor Aldana Writes Policy Brief on Crisis in Ukraine

Professor Raquel Aldana wrote a policy brief titled “Lessons for Reform from the Ukrainian Crisis” for UC Davis’ Global Migration Center. In the brief, Aldana observes that "temporary protected status is a helpful mechanism to move quickly to offer protections to emergency refugee situations," but that "reforms should include potential paths to legalization, family unification, and access to certain social programs.” Read the brief.

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.

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