Research with Students

Drawing on the graduate school model of student-faculty professional collaboration, Professor Chin has co-authored a number of scholarly works with students.  These articles have been cited in appellate courts, including the United States Supreme Court.

Scholarship Co-Authored with Students or Former Students

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, Arizona student).

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

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, Arizona student).

            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).

Pledging Allegiance to the Constitution: The First Amendment and Loyalty Oaths for Faculty at Private Universities,
64 University of Pittsburgh Law Review 431 (2003) (with Saira Rao, NYU student).

Effective Assistance of Counsel and the Consequences of Guilty Pleas,

87 Cornell Law Review 697 (2002) (with Richard W. Holmes, Jr., Cincinnati student).

            Cited in Padilla v. Kentucky, 559 U.S. ___ (2010); 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. 2d 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).

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, NYU student).

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, Western New England student)). 

            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, Western New England student).

           
             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, Western New England student).

                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).

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