Congrats Leticia Saucedo!

Congratulations to ImmigrationProf blogger and law professor Leticia Saucedo!  Yesterday, the tenured faculty of the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, UNLV voted unanimously to recommend her tenure and promotion. 

Professor Saucedo earned her J. D. in 1996 from Harvard Law School, where she was managing editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. Following graduation, she first served as briefing attorney to Chief Justice Thomas Phillips of the Texas Supreme Court, then was an associate of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobsen in New York City, where she was the recipient of the Fried Frank MALDEF Fellowship. From 1999 to 2003, she was a staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio,Texas, where she litigated employment and education cases. Professor Saucedo has taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 2003. She teaches Torts, Immigration Law, and co-directs the Immigration Law Clinic. She has co-developed and taught international and domestic service learning legal courses covering the immigration consequences of crime, and domestic violence in a post-conflict society. Her research interests lie in the intersection between employment and labor law and immigration law. She is co- editing a casebook on Latinos and the law, entitled, The Legal Construction of a Latino Identity. Her articles have appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, the Buffalo Law Review, the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, the Richmond Law Review, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. Professor Saucedo currently holds a position as a research scholar with the Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity at the University of California, Berkeley Law School.

KJ