Gabriel J. Chin
Gabriel Jack Chin is an author, legal scholar, and Professor at the University of California, Davis School of Law.
He teaches a variety of courses, including Criminal Law, Immigration, Criminal Appellate Advocacy, and Race and Law.In the news
Chin has been quoted in a number of newspapers, including the New York Times and The Huffington Post on the Trayvon Martin case,. He also wrote an op-ed about the topic for CNN.
In 2010, he commented for The New York Times, and The Washington Post on Arizona's SB1070 statute.
His 2008 legal analysis, which focused on a 1937 law and the language of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, concluded that U.S. Senator John McCain is not eligible to be elected President of the United States. Chin's 2011 legal analysis entitled "Who's really eligible to be president?" concluded, after reviewing the Fourteenth Amendment and the applicable common law as interpreted by the Supreme Court of the United States, that President Barack Obama is a natural born citizen given that Obama was a citizen "by birth" under the Fourteenth Amendment.Biography
In 1985 he received a BA from Wesleyan University. In 1988 he received a J.D. from University of Michigan Law School. In 1995 he received an LL.M. from Yale Law School, and was an Editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute. Before becoming a law professor, " clerked for U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch in Denver and practiced with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom and The Legal Aid Society of New York."
He was named in the , and in the , surveys by University of Chicago professor Brian Leiter. Professor Chin appeared on the October 16, 2006 episode of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart on a segment titled discussing the legality of the , a proposal to offer financial incentives for voting. He also criticized the proposal on Marketplace on November 2, 2006. In 2002, he appeared on NPR's Morning Edition discussing his efforts, in conjunction with law students, to repeal racist Jim Crow laws still on the books. He was named one of the by A Magazine for his work in this area.Books
Chin has edited and contributed to a number of books, including:
- United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Asian Pacific Americans
- United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Voting
- United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on the Police
- The United States Commission on Immigration Reform: The Interim and Final Reports and Commentary
- Immigration and the Constitution
- Affirmative Action and the Constitution
- New York City Policy Corruption Investigation Commissions, 1894-1994
Other works
Chin is the author or co-author of many legal papers, including:
- , 43 Michigan Journal of Law Reform
- , 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 25
- , 43 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 65
- , 2008 Illinois Law Review 1359.
- , 64 Md. L. Rev. 875
- Jim Crow's Long Goodbye, 21 Const. Comment. 107
- , 6 Iowa J. Gender, Race, & Just. 253, reprinted in Civil Penalties, Social Consequences 27
- Pledging Allegiance to the Constitution: The First Amendment and Loyalty Oaths for Faculty at Private Universities, 64 U. Pitt. L. Rev. 431
- , 87 Cornell L. Rev.
- , 41 B.C. L. Rev. 1
- , 75 North Carolina L. Rev. 273.
- , 82 Iowa L. Rev. 151, excerpted in F. Michael Higginbotham, Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions 327
- , Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 08-14.
