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March 3, 2014

A Roundtable on the 1965 Immigration Act

Last Friday, Professors Jack Chin and Rose Villazor organized a day-long roundtable discussion at UC Davis School of Law of chapters of their forthcoming book, "Legislating a New America," on the 50th Anniversary of the Immigration Act of 1965. The book is under contract with Cambridge University Press and scheduled for release in 2015. 

 

The Immigration Act, which came on the heels of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, represented a monumental change to U.S. immigration law and, among other reforms, eliminated a discriminatory quotas system. 

Presenters and commentators included:

Atticus Lee, UC Davis Law

Bill Ong Hong, UC Davis Law

Brian Soucek, UC Davis Law

Gabriel “Jack” Chin, UC Davis Law

Giovanni Peri, UC Davis Economics

Jeanette Money and Kristina Victor, UC Davis Political Science

Kevin Johnson, UC Davis Law

Leticia Saucedo, UC Davis Law

Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Santa Clara School of Law

Raquel Aldana, McGeorge School of Law

Robyn Rodriguez and Valerie Francisco, UC Davis Asian American Studies

Rose Cuison-Villazor, UC Davis Law

Sarah Song, UC Berkeley School of Law

I must say that I was energized by the provocative and innovative quality of all the papers.  The book project will be extremely interesting reading.