Professor Chin Honored with Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento Community Service Award

The Asian/Pacific Bar Association of Sacramento will honor Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin with the 2015 Community Service Award at its Annual Dinner Gala on September 9.  The honor recognizes Professor Chin's leadership in the successful effort to petition the California Supreme Court on behalf of Hong Yen Chang, who was denied a license to practice law in California more than a century ago as a result of laws that discriminated against Chinese immigrants. The Court posthumously granted a law license to Chang in March 2015.

Gabriel "Jack" Chin, who joined the King Hall faculty in 2011, 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.