Jack Chin is Edward L. Barrett Jr. Chair and Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law at UC Davis School of Law. Regularly appearing on lists of the most cited legal scholars, he writes about immigration, Asian Pacific American legal history, race and law, and criminal issues. His legal work with students includes persuading the Ohio legislature to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment; Kansas, New Mexico, and Wyoming to repeal anti-Asian alien land laws, and the California Supreme Court to posthumously admit an attorney to the bar after he was excluded because of his race (In re Chang, 334 P.3d 288 (Cal. 2015)). His scholarship has been cited by many courts, including in five majority, concurring, and dissenting opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court. A graduate of Wesleyan University (History), he earned a J.D. from Michigan and an LL.M. from Yale. Before entering teaching in 1995, he clerked for U.S. District Judge Richard P. Matsch in Denver and practiced with the Legal Aid Society of New York and the law firm of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom. Before joining the UC Davis faculty in 2011, he taught at the Western New England, Cincinnati, Arizona, and NYU law schools.