Raquel Aldana
Professor of Law
B.A., Arizona State University
J.D., Harvard Law School
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Tel: 916.733.2802
Professor Aldana is a prolific legal scholar who joined the Pacific McGeorge faculty in 2009 after previously serving as a tenured professor at UNLV’s William S. Boyd School of Law in Las Vegas, Nevada. She is the founder and director of the Pacific McGeorge Inter-American Program, an innovative project committed to educating bilingual and bicultural lawyers who wish to pursue a transnational career with a focus on U.S-Latin America relations. Professor Aldana has written extensively on immigration issues and been actively involved in immigrant rights’ organizations. She began her legal career as an associate at a large law firm in Washington, D.C., later working at the Center for Justice and International Law in the nation’s capital where she litigated cases before the Inter-American Commission and the Inter-American Court on Human Rights. In 2006-07, Professor Aldana was a Fulbright Scholar at the Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala City, Guatemala, where she taught several courses in the school’s human rights L.L.M. program and conducted research on femicide.
Courses: Criminal Law, Criminal Procedure, Comparative Latin American Law, Immigration Law
Recent Publications:
Understanding Immigration Law (LexisNexis 2009) (with K. Johnson, et al)
Silent Victims No More?: Moral Indignation and the Potential for Latino Political
Mobilization in Defense of Immigrants, 45 HOUS. L. R EV. 73 (2008)
Of Katz and “Aliens”: Privacy Expectations and the Immigration Raids, 41 U.C. DAVIS L.R EV. 1081 (2008)
The Illusion of Transformative Conflict Resolution: Mediation of Domestic Violence Cases in Nicaragua, 55 BUFF. L. R EV. 1261 (2008) (with L. Saucedo)
The Subordination and Anti-Subordination Story of the U.S. Immigrant Experience in the 21 st Century, 7 NEV. L.J. 713 (2007) (LAT CRIT SYMPOSIUM CLUSTER INTRODUCTION) On Rights, Federal Citizenship, and the “Alien, ” 46 WASHBURN L. R EV. 101 (2007)