GABRIEL "JACK" CHIN
Professor of Law
University of California, Davis, School of Law

Publications

Immigration Law

Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship,
107 Michigan Law Review FirstImpressions 1 (Sept. 2008) (available online at http://www.michiganlawreview.org/firstimpressions/vol107/mccain.htm). Cited in Hollander v. McCain, 566 F. Supp.2d 63 (D.N.H. 2008). Featured in Adam Liptak, A Hint of New Life to McCain Birth Issue, N.Y. Times, July 11, 2008, at A11 (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/politics/11mccain.html).

With responses/commentary from: Lawrence Solum, Daniel Tokaji, Peter Spiro, Stephen Sachs

Conference Paper, Virtual Immigrants: The Evolution of the H-1B Program, in
Cross-Border Human Resources, Labor and Employment Issues 137 (Andrew Moriss & Samuel Estreicher eds. 2005).

A War on Drugs or a War on Immigrants? Expanding the Definition of ‘Drug Trafficking’ in Determining Aggravated Felon Status for Non-Citizens, 64 Maryland Law Review 875 (2005) (with Jeff Yates and Todd Collins).

Effective Assistance of Counsel and the Consequences of Guilty Pleas,
87 Cornell Law Review 697 (2002) (with Richard W. Holmes, Jr.).

Cited in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. ___ (2010) (Opinion of the Court by Stevens, J.); id. (Alito J., concurring);
Santos-Sanchez v. United States, 548 F.3d 327, 334 n.4 (5^th Cir. 2008); Yong Wong Park v. United States, 2005 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 19284, at 3 (S.D.N.Y. Aug. 9 2005); People v. Moore, 86 P.3d 635, 638 n.2 (N.M. App. 2004); People v. McDonald, 745 N.Y.S.2d 276, 281 n.4 (App. Div. 2002), aff’d, 802 N.E.2d 131 (N.Y. 2003); People v. Becker, 9 Misc.3d 720, 800 N.Y.S.2d 499, 502 (New York City Crim. Ct. 2005); People v. Yanez, 782 N.E.2d 146, 149 (Ohio App. 2002); State v. Creamer, 2007 WL 2812312, 2007-Ohio-5125, ¶ 8, n.7 (Ohio App. 2007); Gonzalez v. State, 134 P.3d 955, 958 (Or. 2006), rev’g 83 P.3d 921, 923 (Or. App. 2004); Jackson v. State, 139 S.W.3d 7, 15-16 (Tex. App. 2004); United States v. Ramos, 2004 WL 26772 (U.S.A.F. Ct. Crim. App. Dec. 10, 2003).

Is There a Plenary Power Doctrine? A Tentative Apology and Prediction for Our Strange but Unexceptional Constitutional Immigration Law, 14 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 257 (2000) (symposium contribution).

With responses:

Kevin R. Johnson, Race and Immigration Law and Enforcement: A Response To Is There A Plenary Power Doctrine?,
14 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 289 (2000);

Stephen H. Legomsky, Immigration Exceptionalism: Commentary On Is There A Plenary Power Doctrine?,
14 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 307 (2000).

Segregation’s Last Stronghold: Race Discrimination and the Constitutional Law
of Immigration, 46 UCLA Law Review 1 (1998), reprinted in 19 Immigration & Nationality Law Review 3 (1998).

AALS Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award, 1998.

The Civil Rights Revolution Comes to Immigration Law: A New Look at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965,
75 North Carolina Law Review 273 (1996), reprinted in 17 Immigration & Nationality Law Review 87 (1995-96).

Excerpted in Timothy Davis, Kevin R. Johnson & George A. Martinez, A Reader on Race, Civil Rights and American Law: A Multi-Racial Approach 578 (2001); cited in United States v. Mojica, 970 F. Supp. 130, 143 (E.D.N.Y. 1997) (Jack B. Weinstein, J.).

Immigration and the Constitution (Garland Publishing 2000) (anthology)
(co-editor with Victor Romero (Penn. State) and Michael Scaperlanda (Oklahoma)).

The United States Commission on Immigration Reform: The Interim and Final Reports and Commentary
(William S. Hein & Co. 2000) (editor, with the Editors of the Immigration and Nationality Law Review).

Affirmative Action and the Constitution (Garland Publishing 1998) (three-volume anthology)
(editor and author of introductions).

Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction

A War on Drugs or a War on Immigrants? Expanding the Definition of ‘Drug Trafficking’ in Determining Aggravated Felon Status for Non-Citizens, 64 Maryland Law Review 875 (2005) (with Jeff Yates and Todd Collins).

Reconstruction, Felon Disenfranchisement and the Right to Vote: Did the Fifteenth Amendment Repeal Section 2 of the Fourteenth?,
92 Georgetown Law Journal 259 (2004), reprinted in 21 Civil Rights Litigation and Attorney Fees Annual Handbook Ch. 11 (Steven Saltzman, ed., 2005); cited in Hayden v. Pataki, 449 F.3d 305, 351 n.3 (2d Cir. 2006) (Parker, J., dissenting).

Are Collateral Sanctions Premised on Conduct or Conviction? The Case of Abortion Doctors,
30 Fordham Urban Law Journal 1685 (2003) (symposium contribution).

Cited in Simmons v. Galvin, 575 F.3d 24, 58 n.38 (1^st Cir. 2009) (Toruella J., dissenting).

Race, The War on Drugs, and the Collateral Consequences of Criminal Conviction,
6 Iowa Journal of Gender, Race & Justice 253 (2003) (symposium contribution), reprinted in Christopher Mele & Teresa Miller, Civil Penalties, Social Consequences 27 (Routledge 2005).

Effective Assistance of Counsel and the Consequences of Guilty Pleas,
87 Cornell Law Review 697 (2002) (with Richard W. Holmes, Jr.).

Rehabilitating Unconstitutional Statutes: A Case Study of Cotton v. Fordice,
71University of Cincinnati Law Review 421 (2003) (faculty symposium).

Race and Law

The Jena Six and the History of Racially Compromised Justice in Louisiana,
44 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 361 (2009) (symposium contribution).

Beyond the Super-Majority: Post-Adoption Ratification of the Equality Amendments,
50 Arizona Law Review 25 (2009) (with Anjali Abraham) (faculty symposium).

Why Senator John McCain Cannot Be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship,
107 Michigan Law Review FirstImpressions 1 (Sept. 2008) (available online at http://www.michiganlawreview.org/firstimpressions/vol107/mccain.htm). Cited in Hollander v. McCain, 566 F. Supp.2d 63 (D.N.H. 2008). Featured in Adam Liptak, A Hint of New Life to McCain Birth Issue, N.Y. Times, July 11, 2008, at A11 (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/us/politics/11mccain.html).

With responses/commentary from: Lawrence Solum, Daniel Tokaji, Peter Spiro, Stephen Sachs

Unexplainable on Grounds of Race: Doubts About Yick Wo,
2008 University of Illinois Law Review 1359.

With comments: David Bernstein (2008 Illinois Law Review 1393), Darryl Brown (2008 Illinois Law Review 1405), Lenese Herbert (2008 Illinois Law Review 1415) and Tom Joo (2008 Illinois Law Review 1427), and my Reply 2008 Illinois Law Review 1441.

The Tyranny of the Minority: Jim Crow and the Counter-Majoritarian Difficulty,
43 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 65 (2008) (with Randy Wagner).

With response: Taunya Lovell Banks, Trampling Whose Rights? Democratic Majority Rule and Racial Minorities: A Response to Chin and Wagner, 43 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 127 (2008).

Felon Disenfranchisement and Democracy in the Late Jim Crow Era (reviewing Jeff Manza & Christopher Uggen, Locked Out: Felon Disenfranchisement and American Democracy (2006)), 5 Ohio State Journal of Criminal Law 329 (2007).

Book Chapter, Chae Chan Ping and Fong Yue Ting: The Origins of Plenary Power, in
Immigration Law Stories 7 (Foundation 2005).

Jim Crow’s Long Goodbye, 21 Constitutional Commentary 107 (2004).

The “Voting Rights Act of 1867:” The Constitutionality of Federal Regulation of Suffrage During Reconstruction,
82 North Carolina Law Review 1581 (2004).

Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Laws to Asian Americans, 1910-1950,
9 Asian Law Journal 1 (2002) (with Hrishi Karthikeyan).

Regulating Race: Asian Exclusion and the Administrative State,
37 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 1 (2002).

Book Chapter, Twenty Years on Trial: Takuji Yamashita’s Struggle for Citizenship 103, in
Race on Trial: Law and Justice in American History (Annette Gordon-Reed ed., Oxford University Press 2002).

Emerging from the Margins of Historical Consciousness: Chinese Immigrants and the History of American Law,
17 Law & History Review 325 (1999) (peer-reviewed journal) (with Richard P. Cole).

Segregation’s Last Stronghold: Race Discrimination and the Constitutional Law
of Immigration, 46 UCLA Law Review 1 (1998), reprinted in 19 Immigration & Nationality Law Review 3 (1998).

AALS Outstanding Scholarly Paper Award, 1998.

Bakke to the Wall: The Crisis of Bakkean Diversity, 4 William & Mary Bill Of Rights Journal 881 (1996).

Beyond Self-Interest: Asian Pacific Americans Toward A Community of Justice, A Policy Analysis of Affirmative Action (1996), reprinted in 4 UCLA Asian-Pacific American Law Journal 129 (1996), and Asian Week, Oct. 25-31, 1996, at 7 (with Sumi Cho (DePaul), Jerry Kang (UCLA) and Frank Wu (Hastings)).

The Plessy Myth: Justice Harlan and the Chinese Cases, 82 Iowa Law Review 151 (1996).

First Prize, Thurgood Marshall Memorial Paper Award, S.W.-S.E. People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, 1996.

United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Asian Pacific Americans
(William S. Hein & Co. 2005) (editor and author of introduction).

United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on Voting
(William S. Hein & Co. 2005) (co-editor with Lori Wagner).

Criminal Law and Procedure

Reaching out to do Justice: The Rise and Fall of the Supreme Court’s Special Docket,
48 Houston Law Review ___ (forthcoming 2011) (with Sara Lindenbaum).

Book Chapter, The Story of Jacobson v. United States: Catching Criminals or Creating Crime,
Criminal Law Stories (Robert Weisberg & Donna Coker eds., Foundation Press Forthcoming).

Unjustified: The Practical Irrelevance of the Justification/Excuse Distinction,
43 University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform 79 (2009) (symposium contribution).

The Jena Six and the History of Racially Compromised Justice in Louisiana,
44 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review 361 (2009) (symposium contribution).

Unexplainable on Grounds of Race: Doubts About Yick Wo,
2008 University of Illinois Law Review 1359.

A War on Drugs or a War on Immigrants? Expanding the Definition of ‘Drug Trafficking’ in Determining Aggravated\
Felon Status for Non-Citizens, 64 Maryland Law Review 875 (2005) (with Jeff Yates and Todd Collins).

Can a Reasonable Doubt have an Unreasonable Price? Limitations on Attorney’s Fees in Criminal Cases,
41 Boston College Law Review 1 (1999) (with Scott Wells).

Cited in State ex rel. Oklahoma Bar Ass’n v. Flaniken, 83 P.3d 825, 828 n.4 (Okla. 2004).

The “Blue Wall of Silence” as Evidence of Bias or Motive to Lie: A New Approach to Police Perjury,
59 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 233 (1998) (with Scott Wells).

Reviewed in Timothy P. O’Neill, Tearing Down the Blue Wall of Silence, Chicago Daily Law Bulletin, Jan. 22, 1999, at 5 (“Chin and Wells article should be required reading for everyone interested in justice in America.”); cited in United States v. Doe, 434 F.Supp.2d 377, 380 (E.D. Va. 2006); People v. Ash, 805 N.E.2d 649, 655 (Ill. App. 2004).

Identifying the Enemy in the War on Drugs: A Critique of the Developing Rule Permitting Visual Identification of Indescript White Powders as Narcotics at Trial, 47 American University Law Review 557 (1998) (with Michael Blanchard).

            Cited in Desai v. Mukasey, 520 F.3d 762, 766 n.3 (7^th Cir. 2008); State v. Ward, 681
            S.E.2d 354, 370 (N.C. App. 2009); State v. Llamas-Hernandez, 659 S.E.2d 79, 83, 86
            (N.C. App. 2008) (dissenting opinion), rev’d per curiam on dissenting opinion below,
            673 S.E.2d 658 (N.C. 2009); State v. Colquitt, 137 P.3d 892, 897-98 (Wash. App. 2006);
            Brooks v. State, 762 So.2d 869, 894 (Fla. 2000); Sinclair v. State, 995 So.2d 552, 557
            (Fla. App. 2008); State v. McKee, 744 N.E.2d 737, 740-41 (Oh. 2001); State v. Nichols,
            541 S.E.2d 310, 317, 318 (W. Va. 1999).

Getting Out of Jail Free: Sentence Credit for Periods of Mistaken Liberty,
45 Catholic University Law Review 403 (1996).

Cited in Espinoza v. Sabol, 558 F.3d 83, 88 (1st Cir. 2009); Hawkins v. Freeman, 195 F.3d 732, 742-43 & nn. 2-3, 758 n.7 (4th Cir. 1999) (majority and dissent), rev’g en banc 166 F.3d 267, 283 (4th Cir. 1999); Sanchez v. Warden, New Hampshire State Prison, 329 F.Supp.2d 200, 203 (D.N.H. 2004); People v. Levandoski, 603 N.W.2d 831, 836 n.5 (Mich. App. 1999); Anderson v. Houston, 744 N.W.2d 410, 418 n.14 (Neb. 2008); Commonwealth v. West, 868 A.2d 1267, 1273 n.5 (Pa. Super. 2005), rev’d, 938 A.2d 1034 (Pa. 2007); Commonwealth v. Blair, 699 A.2d 738, 741 n.5 (Pa. Super. 1997); Grajczyk v. State, 666 N.W.2d 472, 2003 SD 74 (S.D. 2003); In re Roach, 74 P.3d 134, 136 (Wash. 2003). Provided the basis for release of Margaret Ansley, as described in No More Prison For Her, Battle Creek (Mi) Enquirer, Feb. 28, 1997, at A1.

Double Jeopardy Violations as “Plain Error” under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b),
21 Pepperdine Law Review 1161 (1994).

Cited in United States v. Gore, 154 F.3d 34, 42 n.3 (2d Cir. 1998);
State v. Allah, 787 A.2d 887, 900-01 (N.J. 2002).

United States Commission on Civil Rights: Reports on the Police
(William S. Hein & Co. 2005) (editor and author of introduction).

New York City Police Corruption Investigation Commissions, 1894-1994
(William S. Hein & Co. 1997) (editor and author of introductions).

Cited in United States v. Doe, 434 F. Supp.2d 377, 380 (E.D. Va. 2006).

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