Cruz Reynoso is the inaugural holder of the law school's Boochever and Bird Chair for the Study and Teaching of Freedom and Equality. The chair recognizes outstanding scholarship and teaching, along with a commitment to preserving and expanding the understanding of "the virtues necessary of a great republic."

"I'm very excited to be joining the UC Davis law school faculty and the King Hall family," Reynoso says. "I'm honored to be filling a new chair that deals with the most basic of our constitutional freedoms."

He is recognized for his leadership in civil rights, immigration and refugee policy, government reform, the administration of justice, legal services for the indigent and education. Director, California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, 1969-72;

Professor of Law, University of New Mexico, 1972-76;

State Bar of California, Loren Miller Award, 1978;

Associate Justice, Third District Court of Appeal, 1976-82;

Associate Justice, California Supreme Court, 1982-87;

Special Counsel, Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays & Handler, 1988-present;

Professor, UCLA School of Law, 1991-2001;

Vice Chair, U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1994-2004;

Hispanic Heritage Foundation Award in Education, 2000;

Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2000. A.B., Pomona College, Claremont, 1953
L.L.B., UC Berkeley, 1958

Special Interests: Professional responsibility, remedies, civil rights, appellate advocacy, constitutional law "Hispanics and the Criminal Justice System," in An Agenda for the Twenty-First Century: Hispanics in the United States pp. 277-315 (edited by Pastora San Juan Cafferty and David W. Engstrom, New Brunswick: Transaction Publishers, 2000).

Comments on Simpson-Mazzoli, in America's New Immigration Law: Origins, Rationales, and Potential Consequences 162-6 (edited by Wayne A. Cornelius and Ricardo Anzaldua Montoya, San Diego: Univ. of California Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, 1983). Diversity in Legal Education: A Broader View, A Deeper Commitment, 52 J. OF LEGAL EDUC. 491 (2002).

Brief Remembrances: My Appointment and Service on the California Court of Appeal and Supreme Court, 1976-1987, 13 BERKELEY LA RAZA L.J. 15 (2002).

"The Role of Assets in Assuring Equity: Altheimer Symposium on Racial Equality in the 21st Century" (Keynote Speaker), 21 University of Arkansas, Little Rock Law Review 743-57 (1999).

"Introduction," 17 Chicano-Latino L. Rev. IX (1995).

"Introduction," 14 Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 1 (1994).

"Unleashing the Health Care Border Guards," 4(5) Journal of American Health Care 22-6 (1994).

"Cultural Diversity: Reality and the Ideal," 6 La Raza L. J. 209-20 (1993).

"Remembering Cesar Chavez," from the Grassroots Up, 50 National Lawyers Guild Practitioner 97-99 (1993).

"Ethnic Diversity: Its Historical and Constitutional Roots" (Gianella Lecture), 37 Villanova L. Rev. 821-37 (1992).

"Twenty-Five Years of the Civil Rights Act: History and Promise," 25 Wake Forest L. Rev. 159-95 (1990).

"Educational Equity," 36 UCLA L. Rev. 107-17 (1988).

"Introduction," 26 Wayne L. Rev. 1201-4 (1980). Symposium: Affirmative Action.

"Opening Address," 22 Howard L. J. 455-62 (1979). CLEO Symposium.

"The Legal Education of Chicano Students: A Study in Mutual Accommodation and Cultural Conflict" (with Leo M. Romero and Richard Delgado), 5 New Mexico L. Rev. 177-231 (1975).

"Special Report of the Proceedings of the American Association of Law Schools Section on Minority Groups: Panel Discussion #1 - Beyond Defunis: Testing the Nation's Will," (with Derrick A. Bell and Peter J. Liacouris), 4 Black L. J. 457-63 (1974).

"California Rural Legal Assistance (CRLA): Survival of a Poverty Law Practice," (with Michael Bennett), Chicano L. Rev. 1-79 (1972).

"Introduction: La Raza, the Law, and the Law Schools," 2 Univ. of Toledo L. Rev. 809-18 (1970).

"Change through the Law: CRLA," 5 Brief/Case 2 (1969).

"The Government's Role in Ending Discrimination: Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964," in Equal Employment Opportunity, 30-40 (edited by Richard R. MacNaab, Washington, D.C.: Machinery and Allied Products Institute and Council for Technological Advancement, 1969). Editorial, "Few Protest Abuse, But Good Policing is a Right of All: Community After Community Tells US that the Police Culture that Accepts Malfeasance Must Change," Los Angeles Times, Metro; Part B; Page 11, October 7, 1999

Book Review, The Law and Your Legal Rights: A Bilingual Guide to Everyday Legal Issues, by Jess J. Araujok (1998).

"Keep Politics Off the Bench: County-Wide Judicial Elections Preserve Independence," (with J. Clark Kelso), Los Angeles Daily J. at 6, col. 3 (April 13, 1994).

City of Pasadena independent Financial and Legal Audit (with Carolyn H. Carlburg). Pasadena: City of Pasadena (1993). Executive Summary of the Report on the Contractual and Financial Relationships between the City of Pasadena and the Tournament of Roses Association, August 16, 1993.

Book Review, 10(1) California Lawyer 58-9 (1990). Reviewing The Tempting of America: The Political Seduction of the Law, by Robert H. Bork.

Democracy and Diversity. Stanford: Stanford Center for Chicano Research (1988). Ernesto Galarza Commemorative Lecture.

Commission Report. The Role of the California Postsecondary Education Commission Achieving Educational Equity in California (Cruz Reynoso, Chair). Sacramento: The Commission (1988).