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Jennifer Chacón
Faculty
Professor Chacón does research in the field of immigration law. As a teacher of both criminal procedure and immigration law and policy, she is particularly interested in questions arising at the intersection of these two fields.
Expertise: Immigration law, criminal procedure and criminal law
Current Courses: Constitutional Analysis, Criminal Procedure
Prior Courses Taught: Statutory Analysis, Immigration Law and Policy, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, Practicum, Criminal Procedure, Critical Identity Theory, Constitutional Analysis I, Constitutional Analysis II, Immigration Colloquium
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> Recent & Upcoming Events
- April 12, 2013: Panelist, “The Context and Significance of Padilla v. Kentucky,” Padilla v. Kentucky Symposium, University of Tennessee School of Law
- March 28, 2013: Speaker, “Border Militarization and Feminist Legal Theory,” Cesar Chavez Week Lunch Speaker Series, University of California, Davis, School of Law
- March 1, 2013: Panelist, “Overcriminalization and Anti-trafficking Policy,” Race, Domestic & Sexual Violence: From Prison Nation to Community Resistance symposium, University of California, Berkeley, School of Law
- Jan. 25, 2013: Panelist, “Earning Citizenship,” Mid-Atlantic People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, University of Pennsylvania School of Law
- Jan. 24, 2013: Panelist, “Overcriminalizing Immigration,” BYU Law Review Symposium: "Discretion & Deference: Immigrants, Citizens, and the Law"
- July 17, 2012: Panelist, Second Annual Supreme Court Term in Review Program, UCI Law
> In the News
- Los Angeles Daily News: Prof. Chacon on taking DNA from immigrants in reform
- Brian Leiter's Law School Reports: "The 'Regional' Law Schools With an Unusually Good Eye for Faculty Talent"
> Recent Publications