The Aoki Center primarily serves to connect faculty who conduct critical scholarship on issues involving race, immigration and nation with one another and with interested students. In order to do so, the Aoki Center sponsors programs at King Hall and throughout the UC Davis campus. The titles below offer a sampling of the faculty research that highlights the work that King Hall professors are doing in race, immigration and nation studies.
Kevin R. Johnson
Kevin R. Johnson, Immigration Law and Social Justice, 3d ed. (with Bill Ong Hing and Jennifer M. Chacón), Aspen Casebook Series Wolters Kluwer (forthcoming 2026)
Kevin R. Johnson, Understanding Immigration Law (Carolina Academic Press 2026) (4th Ed.) (with Raquel Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, Enid Trucios-Haynes and Leticia Saucedo)
Kevin R. Johnson, Immigration Law and Democracy: Lessons from History and the Future (with Gabriel J. Chin), University of Pennsylvania Law Review (2026)
Kevin R. Johnson, The Trump Administration’s Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement, SMU Law Review (2026) (symposium)
Kevin R. Johnson, The Impact of the End of Chevron for Immigration Adjudications, Georgetown Immigration Law Journal (2025)
Kevin R. Johnson, The Meaning and Significance of Critical Immigration Legal Theory?, 104 Boston University Law Review 1573 (2024)
Kevin R. Johnson, The KKK, Immigration Law and Policy, and Donald Trump, 75 UC Law Journal 1645 (2024)
Kevin R. Johnson, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion as an Institutional Imperative, 55 University of Toledo Law Review 207 (2024)
Kevin R. Johnson, Immigration Law and Social Justice, 2d ed. (with Bill Ong Hing and Jennifer M. Chacón), Aspen Casebook Series Wolters Kluwer (2022)
Kevin R. Johnson, Systemic Racism in the U.S. Immigration Laws, 97 Indiana Law Journal 1455 (2022)
Kevin R. Johnson, How Racial Profiling in America Became the Law of the Land: United States v. Brignoni-Ponce and Whren v. United States and the Need for Truly Rebellious Lawyering, 98 Georgetown Law Journal, 1005 (2010)
Raquel E. Aldana
Raquel E. Aldana, Understanding Immigration Law (Carolina Academic Press 2026) (4th Ed.) (with Kevin Johnson, Bill Ong Hing, Enid Trucios-Haynes and Leticia Saucedo)
Raquel E. Aldana, Immigrants and the Battle for our Nation in the Courts, U. Pacific L. Rev. (2026)
Raquel E. Aldana, Advancing Hispanic-Serving Excellence: Honoring a Dean's Legacy, 59 UC Davis L. Rev. 3031 (2026)
Raquel E. Aldana, Lessons from Colombia’s Response to Venezuelan Forced Displacement (with Efrain Cruz, Sandra Morello Peña, and Kari Peterson), 87 Albany Law Review 1 (2024)
Raquel E. Aldana, Latinas in the Legal Academy: Progress and Promise (with Emile Loza de Siles, Solangel Maldonado, and Rachel F. Moran), 26 Harvard Latin American Law Review 301 (2023)
Raquel E. Aldana, Taming Immigration Trauma, 44 Cardozo Law Review 387 (2023)
Raquel E. Aldana and Koga, Patrick Marius and O’Donnell, Thomas and Skwara, Alea and Perris, Caroline, Trauma as Inclusion (April 5, 2022). Summer 2022 (89:4) Tennessee Law Review. Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4087777 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4087777
Nila Bala
Nila Bala, Developmental Evidence Rules, forthcoming California Law Review (2027)
Nila Bala, Guilt by Parenthood, Yale Law Journal (2026)
Nila Bala, Children and the Cars that Watch Them, 10/14/2025 U. Chi. L. Rev. Online 1 (2025)
Nila Bala, Policing Children’s Data, 103 Wash. U.L. Rev. – (2025)
Nila Bala, Parent-Child Privilege as Resistance, 68 B.C. L. Rev. 2629 (2024)
Andrea Cann Chandrasehker
Andrea Cann Chandrasehker, Dual Process Theory of Racial Isolation, Legal Cynicism, and Reported Crime (with John Hagan, Bill McCarthy, and Daniel Herda), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115 (28) 7190-7199 (2018).
Andrea Cann Chandrasehker, The Effect of Police Slowdowns on Crime, 18 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 385 (2016).
Gabriel J. Chin
Gabriel J. Chin, The “Free White Persons” Clause of the Naturalization Act of 1790 as Super-Statute (with Paul Finkelman), 65 William & Mary Law Review 1047 (2024)
Gabriel J. Chin, How We Know the U.S. Constitution was Proslavery (with Paul Finkelman), 9 Constitutional Studies 1 (2024)
Gabriel J. Chin, The War Against Asian Sailors and Fishers (with Sam Chew Chin), 69 UCLA Law Review 572 (2022)
Gabriel J. Chin, Dred Scott and Asian Americans, 25 University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 633 (2022).
Gabriel J. Chin, The War Against Chinese Restaurants, 67 Duke Law Journal 681 (2018) (co-author with John Ormonde), excerpted in 40 Regulation: The Cato Review of Business and Government No. 2, 32 (Summer 2017), featured in Joanna Grisinger, Restaurants and Regulation, JOTWELL (Nov. 7, 2018) https://legalhist.jotwell.com/restaurants-and-regulation/ and Cary C. Franklin, Acts of Exclusion, JOTWELL (Nov. 21, 2018) https://conlaw.jotwell.com/acts-of-exclusion/
Mary Louise Frampton
Mary Louise Frampton, “The Law’s Failures: Common Threads of Racial Injustice from Tulsa to Greensboro to the Present, 57 Tulsa Law Review 141 (2021)
Mary Louise Frampton, “Finding Common Ground in Restorative Justice: Transforming Our Juvenile Justice System, 22 UC Davis Journal of Juvenile Law and Policy 102 (2018)
Angela P. Harris
Angela P. Harris, "Barlow v. Collins," in Critical Race Judgments: Rewritten U.S. Court Opinions on Race and Law (co-edited with Devon Carbado, Robin Lenhardt, and Angela Onwuachi-Willig) (Cambridge University Press, 2022)
Angela P. Harris, "The Civil Rights of Health: A New Approach to Challenging Structural Inequality" (with Aysha Pamukcu), 67 UCLA L. Rev. 758 (2020)
Lisa Ikemoto
Lisa Ikemoto, Selling Racial Purity in Direct‐to‐Consumer Genetic Testing and Fertility Markets, in DNA, Race, and Reproduction, Emily Klancher Merchant and Meaghan O’Keefe, eds., University of California Press (2025)
Lisa Ikemoto, Eggs, Nests, and Stem Cells in Baby Markets: Money and the New Politics of Creating Families (Michelle Bratcher Goodwin ed., 2010).
Irene Oritseweyinmi Joe
Irene Oritsweyinmi Joe, Administering Effective Assistance of Counsel, 104 Boston University Law Review 1 (2025)
Irene Oritsweyinmi Joe, Regulating the Public Defender Identity, 92 Fordham Law Review 1335 (2024)
Irene Oritsweyinmi Joe, Regulating Mass Prosecution, 53 UC Davis L. Rev. 1175 (2020) ((selected for 11th Annual Fred C. Zacharias Memorial Prize for Scholarship in Professional Responsibility (Honorable Mention))
Irene Oritsweyinmi Joe, Structuring the Public Defender, 106 Iowa L. Rev. 113 (2020) (selected for Michigan Young Scholars Conference)
Thomas W. Joo
Thomas W. Joo, A Long Story: Queues, Dreadlocks, and Cycles in Civil Rights History, 34 Asian Am. L. J. --- (forthcoming 2027)
Thomas W. Joo, Can Entity Law Cure Corporate Social Irresponsibility? (invited symposium contribution), 54 Southwestern U. L. Rev. 90 (2025)
Thomas W. Joo, Natural Is Not in It: Disaster, Race, and Built Environment, 56 Clev. St. L. Rev. 403 (2008).
Courtney G. Joslin
Courtney G. Joslin, How Parenthood Functions, 123 Columbia Law Review 319 (2023) (with Douglas NeJaime)
Courtney G. Joslin, (Not) Just Surrogacy, 109 California Law Review 401 (2021)
Lisa R. Pruitt
Lisa R. Pruitt, “Access to Higher Education in New Mexico: Ethnoracial, Geographical and Class Disparities,” in Seeing Race in Rural Space: Racialized Structures and Frames in the United States (Kenneth Robinson, Angie Carter, Keiko Tanaka and Mark Harvey, eds.) (forthcoming 2027 University of North Carolina Press) (co‐authored with Diana E. Flores)
Lisa R. Pruitt, Fostering First‐Generation Student Success in Law School (with Nirav Bhardwaj), 75 Alabama Law Review 745 (2024)
Lisa R. Pruitt, Welfare Queens and White Trash, 25 Southern Cal. Interdisc. L. J. 289 (2016)
Leticia Saucedo
Leticia Saucedo, Understanding Immigration Law (Carolina Academic Press 2026) (4th Ed.) (with Kevin Johnson, Raquel E. Aldana, Bill Ong Hing, and Enid Trucios-Haynes)
Leticia Saucedo, Children, Labor, and Child Labor (with Andrea Senteno), 57 UC Davis Law Review 2967 (2024)
Leticia Saucedo, Race, Gender and Contemporary International Labor Migration Regimes: 21st Century Coolies? (with Robyn Rodriguez), Elgar Press (2022)
Leticia Saucedo, Enforcement Versus Employment Enforcement: The Case for Integrated Protections in the Immigrant Workplace, 38 Fordham Urb. L. J. 101 (2011)
Brian Soucek
Brian Soucek, The Opinionated University: Academic Freedom, Diversity, and the Myth of Neutrality in American Higher Education (University of Chicago Press 2026).
Brian Soucek, Diversity Statements, 55 UC Davis Law Review 1989 (2022).
Brian Soucek, Can A Gay Judge Judge A Gay Rights Case? Thoughts on Judicial Neutrality, in A Guide to Civil Procedure: Integrating Critical Legal Perspectives (Brooke Coleman, Suzette Malveaux, Portia Pedro & Elizabeth Porter, eds., 2022).
Brian Soucek, Categorical Confusion in Asylum Law, 73 FLORIDA LAW REVIEW 473 (2021).