Kevin Johnson (lawyer)
American law professor
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Kevin R. Johnson is a professor and former Dean at the UC Davis School of Law (King Hall). Before becoming a professor, he was a student at Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, served as a clerk to Judge Stephen Reinhardt of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, and worked for law firm Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Johnson joined the faculty at the UC Davis School of Law (King Hall) in 1989, was named Associate Dean in 1998, and the Dean from 2008 to 2024.[1] Of Mexican American ancestry, he is the first Latino to head a law school in the UC system.[2][3]
Harvard University (JD)
Kevin R. Johnson | |
|---|---|
| Born | United States |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley (BA) Harvard University (JD) |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Immigration law, Criminal procedure, Critical race theory, Refugee law |
| Institutions | University of California, Davis School of Law |
Dean Johnson is a scholar in civil rights, chicano/a studies, and immigration law. He serves on the board of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund,[4] and as the president of the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern California.[5] Johnson was a senior immigration advisor to President Barack Obama during his presidential candidacy,[6] and contributes to the influence immigration law blog, ImmigrationProf[7]
He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of California, Berkeley and a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School.[1]
Selected publications
- Johnson, Kevin R. (2002). "The End of "Civil Rights" as We Know It?: Immigration and Civil Rights in the New Millennium". UCLA L. Rev. 49 (5): 1481–1511.
- Johnson, Kevin R. (2017). "Immigration and civil rights in the Trump administration: Law and policy making by executive order". Santa Clara Law Review. 57 (3): 611–665.
- Johnson, Kevin R.; Cuison-Villazor, Rose (May 2, 2019). "The Trump Administration and the War on Immigration Diversity". Wake Forest Law Review. 54 (2): 575–616.