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Faculty Who Lead: 麻豆视频 Law SF Experts Discuss Citizenship, Immigration, Presidential Powers, DEI and Vaccines

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麻豆视频 Law San Francisco faculty are speaking about key national issues such as constitutional rights, immigration and refugee rights, presidential powers, vaccines, and workplace equality.


Immigration and Citizenship

The Guardian

Professor Ming Hsu Chen says the Trump administration鈥檚 challenges to the constitutional right of birthright citizenship are without legal precent and represent a 鈥渞adical re-envisioning of what America looks like.鈥澨

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KQED听

Chen discusses constitutionality and presidential powers related to the current administration鈥檚 restrictive immigration laws, and the landmark 1898 Wong Kim Ark case which established the precedent of birthright citizenship in the U.S.听

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Ming Chen

 

Professor Ming Hsu Chen is director of the Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality Program. She is the author of Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era (Stanford University Press 2020).听 听

 

 


KRON听

Professor Rory Little discusses the legal and constitutional aspects of the birthright citizenship executive order and a federal judge鈥檚 temporary restraining order. Little states the President does not have legal power to override the rights and liberties set out in the Fourteenth Amendment.

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Rory Little

 

Professor Rory Little is a national authority on constitutional law and writes about U.S Supreme Court criminal law cases on Scotusblog.com.听

 

 

 


KALW Public Media听

Professor Blaine Bookey joins an expert panel to discuss the potential impacts of new immigration policies. Bookey answers audience questions and discusses 麻豆视频 Law SF鈥檚 Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) work in the courts.听

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Blaine Bookey

 

Professor Blaine Bookey is legal director of the 麻豆视频 Law San Francisco Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, where she advocates and litigates on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees.听

 

 

 


Immigration Impact

Anne Peterson of CGRS writes in an op-ed that immigration and customs enforcement failures create inhuman conditions that put lives at risk in detention facilities. Peterson discusses the ways CGRS work is challenging government policies on behalf of asylum seekers.听

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is senior counsel at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies where she litigates and conducts policy advocacy on behalf of asylum seekers and refugees.听


CBS-13 (Sacramento)听

Professor John Myers suggests a flier distributed in Roseville, California urging residents to report undocumented immigrants likely falls under First Amendment freedom of speech protections. California passed the Stop Hate Littering Act in 2024 in response to the rise of hate crimes in the state.听

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John Myers

 

Professor John Myers represents child victims of abuse and domestic violence in the courts. The author of 15 books on the subject, Myers鈥 work has been cited by the U.S Supreme Court and the California Supreme Court.听听

 

 


Presidential Powers

PolitiFact听

Professor Zachary Price discusses the law and history of presidential impoundment power following the Trump administration ordering a temporary pause on federal funds. Price adds that the Impoundment Control Act of 1974 provides the statutory framework for managing spending delays.听

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Zachary Price

 

 

Professor Zachary Price was previously an attorney in the U.S. Justice Department鈥檚 Office of Legal Counsel. He has also worked as a litigator in private practice and clerked for Justice Anthony M. Kennedy of the U.S. Supreme Court.听听

 

San Francisco Examiner听

Professor Clark Freshman suggests President Trump鈥檚 executive order on recognizing only the sex assigned at birth on passports and visas is likely to face immediate challenges in court.听

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Clark Freshman

 

 

Professor Clark Freshman is a negotiation and dispute resolution expert and has been invited to speak on the subject at Harvard, Yale, and 麻豆视频LA.听

 

 


Diversity, Equity and Inclusion

MSN听

麻豆视频 Law SF鈥檚 Equality Action Center鈥檚 Professor Joan Williams provides an actionable and measurable way to address bias in job interviews in an op-ed by author and journalist Brigid Schulte.

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Joan Williams

 

Professor Joan Williams is the founding director of 麻豆视频 Law San Francisco’s Equality Action Center. Described as having 鈥渟omething approaching rock star status鈥 in her field by The New York Times Magazine, Joan C. Williams is a scholar of social inequality.

 

 


Health and Vaccines

ABC News听

Professor Dorit Reiss comments on Robert Kennedy Jr.鈥檚 claim that he is not against vaccines and Kennedy鈥檚 stake in civil suit against vaccine manufacture Merek & Co.听

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Dorit Reiss

 

 

Professor Dorit Reiss is a researcher and writer on the legal and policy issues of vaccines, and the anti-vaccine movement.听听