G. Jack Chin

Publications

• Re-Rethinking Asian Exclusion and Color-Blind Immigration
  79 SMU L. REV. 35 (2026) · SMU Law Review · 2026
• The New CJA Form 24: Protecting Indigent Criminal Appellants’ Rights
  23 UC L.J. RACE & ECON. JUST. 59 (2026) · UC Law Journal of Race and Economic Justice · 2026
• Desegregating Criminal Codes, Root and Branch: The Duty Not to Enforce Unconstitutional Laws
  103 N. C. L. REV. 1461 (2025) · North Carolina Law Review · 2025
• Garrity Immunity and the U.S. Armed Forces
  49 BYU L. REV. 777 (2024) · BYU Law Review · 2024
• Black Equal Citizenship and Residential Segregation in the Supreme Court’s Race Jurisprudence
  75 UC L.J. 1581 (2024) · UC Law Journal · 2024
• Afterward: A Reply to Commentators
  65 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1197 (2024) · William & Mary Law Review · 2024
• The "Free White Person" Clause of the Naturalization Act of 1790 as Super-Statute
  65 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1047 (2024) · William & Mary Law Review · 2024
• Slave Law, Race Law
  94 U. COLO. L. REV. 551 (2023) · University of Colorado Law Review · 2023
• Robert Cover and Critical Race Theory
  37 TOURO L. REV. (2022) · Touro Law Review · 2022
• The End of California’s Anti-Asian Alien Land Law: A Case Study in Reparations and Transitional Justice
  29 ASIAN AM. L.J. 17 (2022) · Asian American Law Journal · 2022
• Toward National Criminal Bar Admission in U.S. District Courts
  89 FORDHAM L. REV. 1111 (2020) · Fordham Law Review · 2020

• The Gattaca Model: Should the Military Be Allowed to Select Its Elite Forces Based upon One's DNA
  13 LIBERTY U. L. REV. (2019) · Liberty University Law Review · 2019
• The War Against Chinese Restaurants
  67 DUKE L.J. 681 (2018) · Duke Law Journal · 2018
• Infamous Misdemeanors and the Grand Jury Clause
  102 MINN. L. REV. 1911 (2018) · Minnesota Law Review · 2018
• Controlling the Criminal Justice System: Colorado as a Case Study
  94 DENV. L. REV. 497 (2017) · Denver Law Review · 2017
• The Problematic Prosecution of an Asian American Police Officer: Notes From a Participant in People v. Peter Liang
  51 GA. L. REV. (2017) · Georgia Law Review · 2017
• Pleading Guilty Without Client Consent
  57 WM. & MARY L. REV. 1309 (2016) · William & Mary Law Review · 2016
• Comprehensive Immigration Reform in the Jim Crow Era: Chinese Exclusion and the McCreary Act of 1893
  23 ASIAN AM. L.J. 39 (2016) · Asian American Law Journal · 2016
• Panel Discussion: Preventing Discriminatory Use of Force
  Washington and Lee Journal of Civil Rights and Social Justice · 2016
• Justice and Law Journals
  20 MICH. J. RACE & L. 485 (2015) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2015
• The Mistake of Law Defense and an Unconstitutional Provision of the Model Penal Code
  93 N. C. L. REV. 139 (2014) · North Carolina Law Review · 2014
• The Lost Brown v. Board of Education of Immigration Law
  91 N. C. L. REV. 1657 (2013) · North Carolina Law Review · 2013
• Race and the Disappointing Right to Counsel
  122 YALE L.J. 2236 (2013) · Yale Law Journal · 2013
• The Unconstitutionality of State Regulation of Immigration Through Criminal Law
  61 DUKE L.J. 251 (2011) · Duke Law Journal · 2011
• Taking Plea Bargaining Seriously: Reforming Pre-Sentence Reports After Padilla v. Kentucky
  31 ST. LOUIS U. PUB. L. REV. (2011) · Saint Louis University Public Law Review · 2011

• Unjustified: The Practical Irrelevance of the Justification/Excuse Distinction
  43 U. MICH. J. L. REFORM 79 (2009) · University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform · 2009
• RATIFYING THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT IN OHIO
  28 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 179 (2009) · Western New England Law Review · 2009
• Why Senator John McCain Cannot be President: Eleven Months and a Hundred Yards Short of Citizenship
  107 MICH. L. REV. FIRST IMPRESSIONS 1 (2008) · Michigan Law Review First Impressions · 2008
• A War on Drugs or a War on Immigrants? Expanding the Definition of "Drug Trafficking" in Determining Aggravated Felon Status for Noncitizens
  64 MD. L. REV. 875 (2005) · Maryland Law Review · 2005
• The Voting Rights Act of 1867: The Constitutionality of Federal Regulation of Suffrage during Reconstruction
  82 N. C. L. REV. 1581 (2004) · North Carolina Law Review · 2004
• Jim Crow's Long Goodbye
  21 CONST. COMMENT. 107 (2004) · Constitutional Commentary · 2004
• Are Collateral Sanctions Premised on Conduct or Conviction?: The Case of Abortion Doctors
  30 FORDHAM URB. L.J. 1685 (2003) · Fordham Urban Law Journal · 2003
• Syllabus: Asian Pacific Americans and the Law
  10 ASIAN AM. L.J. 115 (2003) · Asian American Law Journal · 2003
• Effective Assistance of Counsel and the Consequences of Guilty Pleas
  87 CORNELL L. REV. 697 (2002) · Cornell Law Review · 2002
• Breaking Into The Academy: The 2002-2004 <em>Michigan Journal of Race & Law</em> Guide for Aspiring Law Professors
  7 MICH. J. RACE & L. 457 (2002) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2002
• Preserving Racial Identity: Population Patterns and the Application of Anti-Miscegenation Statutes to Asian Americans, 1910-1950
  9 ASIAN AM. L.J. 1 (2002) · Asian American Law Journal · 2002
• Citizenship and Exclusion: Wyoming's Anti-Japanese Alien Land Law in Context
  1 WYO. L. REV 497 (2001) · Wyoming Law Review · 2001
• Breaking Into The Academy: The 2000-2002 <em>Michigan Journal of Race & Law</em> Guide for Aspiring Law Professors
  5 MICH. J. RACE & L. 727 (2000) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 2000

• The First Justice Harlan by the Numbers: Just How Great was "The Great Dissenter?"
  32 AKRON L. REV. (1999) · Akron Law Review · 1999
• Identifying the Enemy in the War on Drugs: A Critique of the Developing Rule Permitting Visual Identification of Indescript White Powder in Narcotics Prosecutions
  47 AM. U. L. REV. (1998) · American University Law Review · 1998
• Breaking into the Academy: The 1998-2000 <em>Michigan Journal of Race & Law</em> Guide for Aspiring Law Professors
  3 MICH. J. RACE & L. 559 (1998) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 1998
• DO YOU REALLY WANT A LAWYER WHO DOESN'T WANT YOU?
  20 W. NEW ENG. L. REV. 9 (1998) · Western New England Law Review · 1998
• Getting out of Jail Free: Sentence Credit for Periods of Mistaken Liberty
  45 CATH. U. L. REV. 403 (1996) · Catholic University Law Review · 1996
• Breaking into the Acadamy: The 1996-97 <em>Michigan Journal of Race & Law</em> Guide for Aspiring Law Professors
  1 MICH. J. RACE & L. 551 (1996) · Michigan Journal of Race and Law · 1996
• The Civil Rights Revolution Comes to Immigration Law: A New Look at the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965
  75 N. C. L. REV. 273 (1996) · North Carolina Law Review · 1996
• Bakke to the Wall: The Crisis of Bakkean Diversity
  4 WM. & MARY BILL RTS. J. 881 (1996) · William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal · 1996
• Double Jeopardy Violations as "Plain Error" Under Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 52(b)
  21 PEPP. L. REV. (1994) · Pepperdine Law Review · 1994