Southern District of Mississippi, Massachusetts High Courts Cite Professor Chin

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin’s scholarship was cited in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Mississippi case U.S. v. Bullock and the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case Commonwealth v. Dew.

The former cited Chin’s 2012 University of Pennsylvania Law Review article “The New Civil Death: Rethinking Punishment in the Era of Mass Conviction.”  The latter cited Chin’s 2013 Yale Law Journal article “Race and the Disappointing Right to Counsel.”

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.