Gabriel Jack Chin is an author, legal scholar, and Professor of Public Administration and Policy at the University of Arizona, USA. He is also the Professor of Public Administration and Policy, at the Eller College of Management.
Chin is the Chester H. Smith Professor of Law, as well as the co-director of the Program in Criminal Law and Policy.
He teaches a variety of courses, including Criminal Law, Criminal Appellate Advocacy, and Race and Law.
In the news
Chin has quoted been in a number of newspapers. His legal analysis showing that US Senator John McCain is not eligible to be elected President of the United States drew attention in 2008.[Liptak, Adam [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/politics/11mccain.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin "A Citizen, but 'Natural Born'?"] "New York Times" 2008-07-11 retrieved 2008-07-14] ] 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 a LL.M. from Yale Law School, and became the Editor of the Yale Law & Policy Review.
Books
Chin has edited and contributed to a number of books, including:
* United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Asian Pacific Americans (2005)
* United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Voting (2005)
* United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on the Police (2005)
* The United States Commission on Immigration Reform: The Interim and Final Reports and Commentary (2000)
* Immigration and the Constitution (2000)
* Affirmative Action and the Constitution (1998)
* New York City Policy Corruption Investigation Commissions, 1894-1994 (1997)
Other works
Chin is the author or co-author of many legal papers, including:
* Beyond the Super-Majority: Post-Adoption Ratification of the Equality Amendments, 50 Ariz. L. Rev. 25 (2008)
* The Tyranny of the Minority: Jim Crow and the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty, 43 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 65 (2008) (
* A War on Drugs or a War on Immigrants? Expanding the Definition of 'Drug Trafficking' in Determining Aggravated Felon Status for Non-Citizens, 64 Md. L. Rev. 875 (2005)
* Jim Crow's Long Goodbye, 21 Const. Comment. 107 (2004)
* Race, The War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction, 6 Iowa J. Gender, Race, & Just. 253 (2003), 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 (2003)
* Can a Reasonable Doubt have an Unreasonable Price? Limitations on Attorney's Fees in Criminal Cases, 41 B.C. L. Rev. 1 (1999) (
* The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases, 82 Iowa L. Rev. 151 (1996), excerpted in F. Michael Higginbotham, Race Law: Cases, Commentary, and Questions 327 (2001)
* 'Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship', Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 08-14 (2008).
References
External links
* [http://www.law.arizona.edu/Faculty/getprofile.cfm?facultyid=147 Official website]
