Center on Asian Americans and the Law 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.

Despite their small numbers, Asian Americans have been at the center of innumerable important legal controversies. Many of the cases reached the United States Supreme Court, raising issues ranging from immigration and citizenship to constitutional law and civil rights, from national security and internment to education and affirmative action. The stories and struggles of the individuals involved—including gold miners, laundrymen, farmers, cannery workers, fishermen, and U.S. citizens imprisoned in concentration camps—provide rich material for study across many areas of the law.

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. (forthcoming 2023).