Dean Kevin R. Johnson cordially invites you the 34th Annual Distinguished Teaching Award and Scholarship Recognition Celebration for Scholarship Donors and Recipients and the William and Sally Rutter Distinguished Teaching Award honoring Professor Leticia Saucedo.
Leticia Saucedo traces her passion for law back to her childhood in a Texas border town, an experience that sparked an interest in immigration, employment law, and social justice, and which inspires her scholarship and teaching today.
Professor Saucedo earned her A.B., cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1984, and following a stint in Nicaragua with the group Witness for Peace, and several years as a community organizer in inner-city Philadelphia and Boston, she enrolled in Harvard Law School, where she was managing editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. She earned her J.D., cum laude, in 1996. She served as briefing attorney to Chief Justice Thomas Phillips of the Texas Supreme Court, and worked as an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobson in New York, where she was the recipient of the Fried Frank MALDEF Fellowship. From 1999-2003, she worked as a staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas, where she litigated employment and education cases.
In 2003, she joined the faculty at the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV), where she co-directed the Immigration Law Clinic and conducted research on the intersections of employment, labor, and immigration law, publishing articles in leading academic journals. In 2010, she accepted an offer to come to UC Davis School of Law, where she is Director of Clinical Education and teaches Immigration Law and Employment Law.
Professor Saucedo is a passionate believer in the importance of clinical education. "I have come to believe that experiential teaching is the most effective way to get students to apply the theoretical aspects of the law in real-world situations that prompt them to think deeply about not only what they'll be doing in the real world when they practice but also broader issues of social justice."
March 14, 2013
UC Davis Conference Center Ballroom
Reception at 6:00 p.m.; dinner and program following at 7:00 p.m.
Tables can be purchased for $500. Each table seats 8 people. This option is available on the RSVP form.
Kindly RSVP by Tuesday, March 5, 2013 using the following links:
General Public
Students
Scholarship Recipients
Faculty
Staff
Past recipients of the Distinguished Teaching Award include:
1980 James E. Hogan
1981 Daniel J. Dykstra
1982 Daniel W. Fessler
1983 Richard C. Wydick
1984 Jean C. Love
1985 Friedrich K. Juenger
1986 Floyd F. Feeney
1987 Bruce A. Wolk
1988 Robert W. Hillman
1989 Edward J. Imwinkelried
1990 Edward H. Rabin
1991 Margaret Z. Johns
1992 Rex R. Perschbacher
1993 Kevin R. Johnson
1994 Joel C. Dobris
1995 Alan E. Brownstein
1996 Harrison C. Dunning
1997 Martha S. West
1998 Florian Bartosic
1999 John D. Ayer
2000 Diane Marie Amann
2001 James F. Smith
2002 Debra Lyn Bassett
2003 James E. Hogan
2004 John W. Poulos
2005 Millard A. Murphy
2006 Edward J. Imwinkelried
2007 Donna Shestowsky
2008 Floyd F. Feeney
2009 Jennifer M. Chacon
2010 Amagda Pérez
2011 Clayton Tanaka
2012 Evelyn Lewis
