Professor Chin Submits Supreme Court Brief Regarding Birthright Citizenship

Professor Gabriel “Jack” Chin submitted an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court regarding Trump v. CASA, Trump v. Washington and Trump v. New Jersey, through which the Trump administration seeks to lift nationwide injunctions against his executive order ending birthright citizenship.

Harvard History Professor Erika Lee and Albany Law School Professor Emeritus Paul Finkelman joined Chin in the brief in support of the respondents in the case. The scholars argue, in part, that the 14th Amendment makes birthright citizenship a constitutional right.

Chin is a Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law and holder of the Edward L. Barrett Jr. Endowed Chair at UC Davis School of Law. He is a prolific and much-cited criminal and immigration law scholar whose work has addressed many of the most pressing social issues of our time.