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December 9, 2015

Rebellious Lawyering to Celebrate the Work of Professor Hing

A two-day conference at UC Hastings will celebrate the work of Professor Emeritus Bill Ong Hing.

May 19 and 20 -- save the date!

Bill is an expert in immigration law and policy, Asian American legal history, civil rights, and much more. Throughout his career, he has pursued social justice by combining community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is founder and continues to serve on the board of directors of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. He also serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center and is an advisor to the Black Alliance for Justice Immigration and the Asian Law Caucus. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented books and articles on immigration policy and race relations. His books include Ethical Borders - NAFTA, Globalization and Mexican Migration (Temple Univ. Press 2010), Deporting Our Souls - Values, Morality and Immigration Policy (Cambridge University Press 2006), Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple Univ. Press 2004), Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy (Stanford Press 1993), Handling Immigration Cases (Aspen Publishers 1995), and Immigration and the Law - a Dictionary (ABC-CLIO 1999). His book To Be An American, Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (NYU Press 1997) received the award for Outstanding Academic Book in 1997 by the librarians' journal Choice.