SPEAKERS AND FACILITATORS

Angelo Ancheta
Director of Legal and Policy Advocacy Programs, Harvard Civil Rights Project
Angelo Ancheta is the Director of Legal and Policy Advocacy Programs for The Civil Rights Project. He is also a Lecturer on Law at the Harvard Law School, where he has taught classes in civil rights and immigration law. During the 2002-03 academic year, he is teaching a year-long seminar on Civil Rights Research and Practice and a reading group on Asian Americans and racial jurisprudence. Mr. Ancheta has been a legal services and civil rights attorney, and has specialized in the areas of immigration law, anti-discrimination law, and appellate advocacy. From 1994 to 1998, he was the executive director of the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, which is the nation's oldest civil rights legal organization focusing on the Asian American population. He has also been a staff attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Southern California, and the Asian Law Alliance in San Jose, California. Mr. Ancheta has also been on the faculty of the UCLA School of Law, where he taught legal research, trial advocacy, and civil rights law. He has written numerous law review and professional journal articles on civil rights and community-based lawyering, and is the author of the book Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience (Rutgers University Press, 1998). He has been on the board of directors of several nonprofit organizations, including California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc., the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, the National Immigration Forum, the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles, and the ACLU of Southern California. Mr. Ancheta received his A.B. in political science in 1983 from UCLA and his J.D. in 1986 from the UCLA School of Law, where he was Chief Managing Editor of the UCLA Law Review. He also received an M.P.A. in 2000 from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

Pat Chew
Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh School of Law
Pat K. Chew is an innovative and productive scholar and teacher whose work crosses a number of subject areas, including business laws, dispute resolution, employment law, conflict in cultural contexts, and race relations and the law. She recently published The Conflict and Culture Reader (New York Univ. Press 2001), is co-author of Corporations: Cases, Materials, and Problems 5th ed (2001) and author of the treatise, Directors' and Officers' Liability (Practising Law Institute, rev. 2001). She has published articles in international law journals at Yale, Virginia, and Texas. Her pioneering work on Asian Americans and the law has been widely cited, and she has made numerous presentations both in the United States and in China, Japan, Taiwan, Germany, and elsewhere. Professor Chew has served on several law school accreditation teams for the American Bar Association and the American Association of Law Schools (AALS). A past member of the Executive Committee of the Minority Section of the AALS, she is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences on issues related to faculty of color and the legal academy. In addition to her 15 years on the Pitt law faculty, Professor Chew has also taught as a visitor at the University of Texas and at the University of Augsburg in Germany, on the faculty of the Semester-at-Sea program, and as an adjunct professor at the University of California at Hastings. Prior to teaching, she practiced law with the international law firm of Baker & McKenzie in Chicago and in San Francisco.

Gabriel J. (Jack) Chin
Professor of Law, University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law
Professor Gabriel (Jack) Chin is nationally known in the areas of criminal law and criminal procedure, constitutional law, immigration law, and civil rights and racial equality issues. He most recently taught at the University of Cincinnati College of Law, where he engaged law students in hands-on activities such as the lobbying for the elimination of Jim Crow laws nationwide. As a special prosecutor in Cincinnati, Chin worked with law students to prosecute high profile murder cases on appeal. Recognized as an expert in civil rights history, Chin has documented significant controversies in immigration and civil rights of Asian-Americans, such as internment camps and anti-miscegenation laws. He has authored many articles on other aspects of criminal, equal protection and immigration law. In January 2002, he was named one of "The 25 Most Notable Asians in America" by AMagazine: Inside Asian America. Since 2001, he has served as a member of the Board of Governors for the Society of American Law Teachers and a reporter for the Task Force on Collateral Sanctions of the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section, Standards Committee. He is also a member of several committees of the American Association of Law Schools. Chin earned a master's degree from Yale Law School in 1995, where he was also editor of the Yale Law and Policy Review. He also has a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School, where he graduated cum laude in May 1988. At Michigan, Chin was a S.K. Yee Merit Scholar, co-founded and was vice president of the Asian American Law Students Association and received American Jurisprudence Awards for Criminal Procedure and Legal Ethics. Chin graduated from Wesleyan University in 1985 with a bachelor's degree in history. He has practiced law with the Legal Aid Society of New York and at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and Flom, a major New York law firm.

Sumi Cho
Professor of Law, DePaul University College of Law
Sumi Cho is Professor of Law at DePaul University College of Law, where she teaches about critical race theory, employment discrimination, and racism and U.S. law. Professor Cho has written several articles on racial formation and the law, and coordinated a symposium project entitled "The Long Shadow of Korematsu," published jointly by the Boston College Law Review and Boston College Third World Law Journal. She was recently honored by the Association of American Law Schools Minority Groups Section with the first Distinguished Service Award for Junior Faculty, in part for her work organizing 1,000 law faculty to protest California Proposition 209's devastating impact on racial diversity in higher education.

Jerry Kang
Professor of Law, U.C.L.A. Law School
Professor Jerry Kang’s teaching and scholarly pursuits include civil procedure, race, and communications. On race, he has focused on the Asian American community and has written and spoken nationally about hate crimes, affirmative action, and lessons from the Japanese American internment. He is a co-author of Race, Rights, and Reparation: The Law and the Japanese American Internment (Aspen Publishers 2001). At UCLA, he helped found the Concentration for Critical Race Studies, the first program of its kind in American legal education and acted as its founding co-director for two years. On communications, Professor Kang has published in the Stanford and Harvard law reviews on the topics of cyberspace privacy and cyber-race (the techno-social construction of race in cyberspace). He is also the author of Communications Law & Policy: Cases and Materials (Aspen Publishers 2001), a leading casebook in the field. During law school, Professor Kang was a supervising editor of the Harvard Law Review and Special Assistant to Harvard University's Advisory Committee on Free Speech. After graduation, he clerked for Judge William A. Norris of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, then worked at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration on cyberspace policy. He joined UCLA in Fall 1995 and was elected Professor of the Year in 1998. Professor Kang is an assistant instructor in Hwa Rang Do, a Korean martial art. He is happily married and has a young daughter.

Marina Lao
Professor of Law, Seton Hall Law School
Professor Lao joined the Seton Hall law faculty in 1994. She received her B.A. from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and her J.D. from Albany Law School where she was the recipient of a three-year full tuition scholarship. She has extensive practice experience both in government and in the private sector. Professor Lao began her legal career in 1980 as a Trial Attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division. She later entered private practice and eventually become partner in the Atlanta, Georgia, law firm then known as Wilson, Cobb, Lichtenstein & Lao. In 1992, she began her legal teaching career as a teaching fellow and lecturer in law at Temple University School of Law. Professor Lao has also been a visiting professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and the University of International Business and Economics, School of Law, in Beijing, China. Professor Lao writes in the area of antitrust and trade regulation. In addition to antitrust, she also teaches corporate and securities law. Professor Lao was recently named Dean's Scholar for 2003-2005, and was also selected as the first recipient of the law school's Andrea J. Catania Fellowship for Excellence in Teaching for 2002-2003.

Paul Watanabe
Professor & Co-Director of Institute for Asian American Studies, U. of Massachusetts
Professor Watanabe's principal teaching and research interests are in the areas of international relations, the process of making foreign policy, strategic and defense policy, American political behavior, and ethnic group politics. He is the author of Ethnic Groups, Congress, and American Foreign Policy. His publications have included chapters and articles on anti-nuclear political activism, United States-Japan relations, American foreign policy during the Reagan Administration, the Cold War, the rise of the religious right in America, and the electoral behavior of independents. His articles have appeared in Political Psychology, World Today, Public Perspective, and Business in the Contemporary World. He is co-director of the Institute for Asian American Studies and co-author of A Dream Deferred: Changing Demographics, Challenges, and New Opportunities in Boston.

Jeanne Woon
Psychologist, Central Missouri State University
Jeanne Woon earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Columbia University. She currently practices as a psychologist in the counseling center at Central Missouri State University. She has been active in group process consultation since 1994, most recently working as consultant at a group relations conference entitled, "Authority, Leadership, and Organizational Life in a Rapidly Changing World", that took place at Bryn Mawr College. In addition, she also has a strong interest in issues of cultural diversity and identity that she incorporates into her clinical, training, and consultation work. Among her professional affiliations, Dr. Woon is an associate of the A.K. Rice Institute for the Study of Social Systems and of the New York Center (an affiliate of AKRI) as well as a member of the American Psychological Association and the Asian American Psychological Association.

Karen Kithan Yau
Independent
Karen Kithan Yau was an Assistant Professor of Law at Syracuse University College of Law from 2002-03 where she taught the Public Interest Law Firm, a civil litigation clinic. She and her students focused on working with immigrants in getting asylum and benefits. Ms. Yau was a Robert M. Cover Clinical Fellow at Yale Law School before her appointment at Syracuse. Prior to teaching, Ms. Yau practiced in New York City. She was a litigation associate for Vladeck, Waldman, Elias & Engelhard, specializing in employment discrimination matters. She was awarded a Skadden Fellowship to work at the National Employment Law Project where she advocated for the employment rights of welfare recipients in the Work Experience Program. Before law school, she worked as a community organizer on the Lower East Side in NYC, working with tenants and immigrant workers. She is currently writing on the representation of immigrant workers and public assistance recipients and legal ethics.

Alfred Yen
Professor of Law, Boston College Law School
Alfred C. Yen is a Professor of Law at Boston College Law School. He is a nationally known scholar who has published numerous articles about copyright law, the Internet, Asian-American legal issues, and law teaching. His recent works include "Western Frontier or Feudal Society?: Metaphors and Perceptions of Cyberspace," which appeared in the Berkeley Technology Law Journal, "Internet Service Provider Liability for Subscriber Copyright Infringement, Enterprise Liability, and the First Amendment," which appeared in the Georgetown Law Journal, "Copyright Opinions and Aesthetic Theory," which appeared in the Southern California Law Review, and two articles about Napster, Internet technology and copyright law for symposia in the University of Dayton Law Review and the Hastings Law Journal. Professor Yen has also held many positions of leadership within legal education and the broader practicing bar. He presently serves on the Board of Editors for the Journal of Legal Education and the Board of Governors for the Society of American Law Teachers. In 2001, the American Law Institute elected him to membership in the Institute. Additionally, Professor Yen has served as chair of the Association of American Law Schools Section on Art Law and its Section on Minority Groups. He organized the first and fifth Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, both of which were held at Boston College Law School. In 1992, Professor Yen wrote and filed an amicus brief with the United States Supreme Court on behalf of 12 copyright scholars in the case of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music Publishing Co. He also joined another group of copyright scholars to file an amicus brief in the case of A&M Records. Inc. v. Napster, Inc. during the summer of 2000. Professor Yen is a graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Law School. Before joining the faculty in 1987, he practiced law in Los Angeles for four years at the firm of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter and Hampton.