Annual Asian American Law Professors Conference at UC Davis

March 29, 2009

This weekend, the 15th annual Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty was held at the University of California, Davis School of Law. Organized on the UC Davis end by Professor Anupam Chander, the conference brought Asian American and other professors from across the United States to the Central Valley of California.

The theme for this year’s conference was “Asian-Americans: Linking Asia to America.” Plenary sessions considered the relationships between Asia and the West, sometimes through a comparative law approach, at other times through a transnational law approach, or through understandings of diasporic identities or the law of immigration. Here are my welcoming remarks. Download CAPALF welcome

ImmigrationProf Blogger Bill Hing gave an extraordinary keynote on Friday evening on “The Human Face of Immigration Policy” and Madhavi Sunder offered another powerful talk on Saturday night Other panelists and keynotes included Steven Bender (Oregon), Francisca Montoya (Cesar Chavez Foundation), John Tehranian (Chapman), Rose Villazor (SMU), Wendy Duong (Denver), Anna Han (Santa Clara), Anil Kalhan (Drexel), Holning Lau (Hofstra), Rick Su (Buffalo), Peter Yu (Drake), Jonathan Kang (Washington), Srividhya Ragavan (Oklahoma), Raha Jorjani (UC Davis) Jeff Redding (St. Louis), Jarrod Wong (McGeorge), Mary Wong (Franklin Pierce), Tom Joo (UC Davis), Anupam Chander (UC Davis), Afra Afsharipour (UC Davis), Madhavi Sunder (UC Davis), Angela Chan (Asian Law Caucus), Raja Raghunath (Denver), Lisa Ikemoto (UC Davis), Bob Chang (Seattle), and Neil Gotanda (Western State).