Please participate in a discussion and open forum about recent events in Charlottesville, Virginia. This town hall meeting aims to help our community cope with these recent events. This event is sponsored by UC Davis Law School, the Aoki Center for Critical Studies of Race and Nation, the King Hall Law Students` Association, and the American Constitution Society of King Hall. UCD LawSoc organizes weekly debates on a variety of topics and participates in international debate competitions with great success. The society regularly welcomes renowned national and international guests to address its members. LawSoc organizes a series of moot court competitions where students can develop their advocacy skills. We have a very active social calendar with events like the annual Law Ball and the Law Gala Dinner. Although Sikhs have been present in the United States since the turn of the century, the recent tragic shooting of a Sikh gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin, has put them in the national spotlight. The conference and discussion will examine these events in light of Sikh history in the United States and South Asia. The role of monuments in the Confederacy and the recent movement to remove them will be the central theme of two UC Davis events in January. “Memorials and Monuments: Lessons from Charlottesville, New Orleans and Port Chicago,” featuring several UC Davis faculty members, will take place Jan. 18 at 6:30 p.m.

at the 24th Street Theater at Sierra 2 Center, 2791 24th St., Sacramento. As part of a new series from the UC Davis Humanities Institute, the event will look at recent incidents in Charlottesville and New Orleans, among others, and how nations remember the past. Visit the event website for more information. Chen Li is a Fellow of the Lee Foundation at Washington University in St. Louis and a Global Associate at the National University of Singapore. His current research interests focus on Chinese legal history with a focus on the legal education of early Chinese students in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Belgium and Switzerland. He is currently working on a project to trace the history of the academic experiences and achievements of these early law students in various law faculties and programs, and their subsequent impact on the transformation of China`s diplomatic service and the creation of modern legal education in China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In this lecture, Chen Li will discuss the different experiences of early Chinese students in U.S. law schools and the detrimental effect of the Chinese Exclusion Act on denying admission to the U.S. bar from the Chinese Exclusion Act. Professor Chin will speak about critical perspectives in criminal law. He will discuss some of the ways in which the contemporary criminal justice system fosters or tolerates racism.

These include the acceptance of police discrimination by the criminal justice system, prosecutions and convictions, racism in material criminalization, and the effects of cognitive biases. Lunch will be served. Visit us for a presentation by Keith Miyake. Keith is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Chancellor of the Department of American Studies at UC Davis. Keith received a B.A. in 2004. in Engineering from Harvey Mudd College and his Ph.D. in Earth and Environmental Sciences from the City University of New York`s Graduate Center in 2016.

After his fellowship, Keith will move to Southern California in the fall of 2018 to work as an assistant professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside. Deferred action for child arrivals, or DACA policy, is one of the most important immigration policies in recent history, with more than 800,000 undocumented immigrants enjoying deportation protection and work permits. The years leading up to DACA were marked by record arrests and deportations, and its announcement followed Congress` failure to pass the federal DREAM Act, which would have approved a pathway to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children. Significantly, the policy was the result of years of advocacy and movement building, led by immigrants directly affected by the deportation system. Co-sponsored by: Asian American Studies, History, Jewish Studies, UC Davis Humanities and UC Davis School of Law. For more information, please contact Gurjit Mann at the ME/SA office in mesastaff@ucdavis.edu or call (530) 754-4926. UC Davis Law School is internationally recognized for its extensive expertise in immigration law. Today`s headlines, congressional confrontations, and fierce public debates all revolve around immigration policy in relation to undocumented immigrants, open or closed borders, migrant labor, etc. Our lecture series offers well-founded discussions rather than rhetoric.

The U.S. is at a critical juncture in immigration reform – experts from King Hall will provide insight into how policies affect human rights, labor, DREAMers and refugees. All students are invited to join King Hall`s faculty and branches for the official fall launch and celebration of the Aoki Center. The Aoki Center sponsors programs at King Hall and throughout the UC Davis campus that highlight critical scholarships and connect faculty conducting critical scholarships on issues such as race, immigration, and/or nation with each other and with interested students. Food and drinks are provided!. Please join Center Director Mary Louise Frampton, Aoki Center New Fellow Ken Wang `18, and the senior faculty of the Aoki Center`s Fall 2018 Launch Mixer. All students are invited to join us and discuss the center`s mission, upcoming 1L programs and seminar series, and learn more about the Aoki Student Collective. Please join the Aoki Centre in congratulating the Penitentiary Law Clinic as the recipient of this award. Aidin served as director of the immigrant rights practice at Centro Legal de la Raza, one of the largest deportation protection programs in California. She has overseen representation of thousands of immigrants pursuing a wide range of immigration measures, including complex deportation defences, immigrants in detention, and has been appointed as an advocate for immigrants with severe intellectual disabilities.

Under Aidin`s leadership, Centro Legal sued the Trump administration to prevent its blatant attempts to undermine the protection of migrants fleeing violence and persecution. In response to border tensions and conflicts, protest cultures have spawned new cross-border communities and ideas that have reformulated transnational solidarity. Migrant, anti-war, feminist, queer and indigenous rights movements have used cross-border networks as well as cultural production and digital technologies to mobilize across borders, but have also faced repression, criminalization and nativist backlash.