Professor Chin's book cited in key Washington state Supreme Court decision

Race, The War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction, by Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin, is cited several times in a recent decision by Washington state’s Supreme Court. The court struck down as unconstitutional Washington’s “strict-liability” drug possession law adopted in the 1950s. Read the decision.

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.