Ming H. Chen

Professor and Harry & Lillian Hastings Research Chair, Director of the Center on Race, Immigration, Citizenship and Equality

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Ming Hsu Chen is a Professor of Law and Faculty-Director of the Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality Program. She teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Legislation and Administrative Regulation, Citizenship, and Immigration. Professor Chen brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of race, immigration, and the administrative state. Her scholarship is published in leading law reviews and social science journals. She is author of Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era (Stanford University Press 2020), on which she gave a TEDx Talk in 2020. She serves as Co-Editor for the Immigration Prof blog (@immprof) and the executive committee for the AALS Immigration Section and the Law and Society Association’s Citizenship and Migration Section.

Professor Chen was previously a professor of law, political science, and ethnic studies at the University of Colorado Boulder where she founded the Immigration and Citizenship Law Program. She has served on the Colorado state advisory council to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. Prior to joining the legal academy, Professor Chen clerked for the Honorable James R. Browning on the U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit in San Francisco and earned degrees from the University of California Berkeley (Ph.D 2011), New York University Law School (JD 2004), and Harvard College (AB 2000).

Education

  • University of California Berkeley
    Ph.D
    2011

  • New York University Law School
    J.D.
    2004

  • Harvard College
    AB
    2000

Publications

  • Ming H. Chen, Teaching Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Citizenship and Immigration, 67 St. Louis U.L. Journal 513 (2023), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, Colorblind Nationalism and the Limits of Citizenship, 44 CARDOZO LAW Review 945 (2023), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, The Political (Mis)Representation of Immigrants on the Census, 96 N.Y.U. L. Review 901 (2021), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, Making Litigating Citizenship More Fair, 73 Vand. L. Rev. En Banc 133 (2020), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, PURSUING CITIZENSHIP IN THE ENFORCEMENT ERA, Stanford University Press (2020), FULL TEXT
  • Ming H. Chen, Beyond Legality: Understanding the Legitimacy of Executive Action in Immigration Law, 99 Syracuse L. Rev. 87 (2016), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, Trust in Immigration Enforcement: State Noncooperation and Sanctuary Cities After Secure Communities, 91 Chi. Kent. L. Rev. 13 (2015), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, Immigration and Cooperative Federalism: Toward a Doctrinal Framework, 85 U. Colo. L. Rev. 1087 (2014), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, Language Rights as a Legacy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 67 SMU L. Rev. 247 (2014), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit: Immigrant Incorporation in Federal Workplace Agencies, 33 Berkeley J. Emp. & Lab. L. 227 (2012), FULL TEXT, SSRN
  • Ming H. Chen, Explaining Disparities in Asylum Claims, 12 Geo. Pub. Pol. Rev. 29 (2006), FULL TEXT