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.
