Professor Johnson to Deliver Keynote at Annual Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture

Professor Kevin R. Johnson is the keynote speaker at this year's Richard J. Childress Memorial Lecture, hosted by the Saint Louis University School of Law Journal. On Oct. 10, Johnson will deliver the lecture "The Supreme Court and Immigrants' Rights in a Second Trump Era."

Kevin R. Johnson is a distinguished professor of law, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law. Johnson is the director of the Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies and also has an appointment as professor of Chicana/o studies at UC Davis. He served as dean of UC Davis Law from 2008 to 2024. Johnson is an internationally recognized scholar in the fields of immigration law and policy, refugee law and civil rights.