Professor Chin Interviewed by Diverse Magazine

Professor Gabriel "Jack" Chin was interviewed by Diverse magazine regarding the successful effort to grant posthumously a license to practice law to Hong Yen Chang, who was denied entry to the California Bar in 1890 on the basis of laws that discriminated against Chinese immigrants. Members of the UC Davis Asian Pacific American Law Students Association (APALSA), with Chin as their faculty advisor, recently succeeded in petitioning the Supreme Court of California on Chang's behalf.

"It's a symbolic result from the court, but a teachable moment for the community at large," Chin said. "Many people don't know this history."

The Diverse article summarizes the Chinese Exclusion Act and how it impacted Chang and others, as well as Professor Chin's efforts to address similar laws, such as his successful 2003 petition to the Ohio legislature to ratify the 14th Amendment as well as the repeal of laws that had forbidden land ownership by Asian non-citizens that were on the books in Kansas, New Mexico, and Wyoming.

Gabriel "Jack" Chin 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.