Gabriel J. Chin

Gabriel J. Chin teaches Criminal Law, Immigration, and Race and Law at UC Davis School of Law. His work has been cited by many courts; in Padilla v. Kentucky, 130 S. Ct. 1473 (2010), the U.S. Supreme Court accepted his argument that defense counsel had a duty under the Sixth Amendment to advice clients of the possibility of deportation if convicted of a crime. He has engaged in a number of law reform projects with his students, including persuading Ohio to ratify the Fourteenth Amendment, Kansas and Wyoming to repeal anti-Asian alien land laws which were still on the books, and the California Supreme Court to posthumously admit Hong Yen Chang to the bar over a century after he was denied admission because of his race. He holds a degree in History from Wesleyan and law degrees from Michigan and Yale.