Our Impact
- Since the launch of our Center in 2022, some 15 law schools have offered a seminar on Asian American legal history using our syllabus as a basis
- Our students have published six law review articles
- Our casebook on Asian Americans and the Law will be available starting in 2026
- We have given numerous presentations on Asian American legal history at law schools, colleges and high schools, law firms, bar organizations, and government and other entities
- Together with the AAPI Crime Victims and Education Fund and NAPABA, we sponsored and ran a video contest on Asian American legal history for middle and high school students
Scholarship
The Center will function as a hub and platform for interdisciplinary scholarship on issues of interest not just to the AAPI community but to all Americans and, indeed, the world.
Recent scholarship generated by the Center includes:
- Hon. Denny Chin & Kathy Hirata Chin, "Kung Flu": A History of Hostility and Violence Against Asian Americans, 90 Fordham L. Rev. 1889 (2022).
- Nicholas Loh '22, Diasporic Dreams: Law, Whiteness, and the Asian American Identity, 48 Fordham Urban L.J. 1331 (2021).
- Caitlin Ramiro '22, After Atlanta: Revisiting the Legal System’s Deadly Stereotypes of Asian Women, 29 Asian American L.J. 90 (2022).
- Mina Juhn ‘22, “Concededly Loyal”: Mitsuye Endo and the Continuing Significance of Ex Parte Endo (accepted for publication by the UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal and winner of the 2022 Matsui Writing Competition).
- Benjamin Lew, A Less than Perfect Union: Race, Gender, and the Lack of ‘Perfect Plaintiffs’ in Naim v. Naim (accepted for publication by the UCLA Asian Pacific American Law Journal and winner of the 2023 Matsui Writing Competition).
- Stephanie Diu ‘23, Accessibility or Exploitation?: A Multiperspective Examination of ADA Title III Serial Litigation in New York City’s Chinatown, 91 Fordham L. Rev. Online 109 (2023).
- Patrick Hornbeck ‘22, Implicit Bias against Asian Americans: A Blind Spot in the Harvard Admissions Case, 52 J. L. & Educ.