Professor Chin advises on model law to keep charges without convictions off records

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin served as an advisor for a model law recommending automatic expungement of most arrests and charges that do not result in conviction. Chin is on the board of the Collateral Consequences Resource Center, which backed the model law’s creation.

Gabriel "Jack" Chin is 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.