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Bill Ong Hing
is a Professor of Law and Asian American Studies
at the University of California, Davis. He teaches
Judicial Process, Negotiations, Public Service
Strategies, Asian American History, and directs
the law school clinical program. He is the author
of numerous academic and practice-oriented books
and articles on immigration policy and race relations.
His books include Defining America Through Immigration
Policy (Temple Univ. Press 2004), Making and Remaking
Asian America Through Immigration Policy (Stanford
Press 1993), Handling Immigration Cases (Aspen
Publishers 1995), and Immigration and the Law¾a
Dictionary (ABC-CLIO 1999). His book To Be An
American, Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric
of Assimilation (NYU Press 1997) received the
award for Outstanding Academic Book in 1997 by
the librarians' journal Choice.
He was also co-counsel in the precedent-setting
Supreme Court asylum case, INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca
(1987). Professor Hing is the founder of, and
continues to volunteer as General Counsel for,
the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco.
He is on the board of directors of the Asian
Law Caucus and the Migration Policy Institute.
He also serves on the National Advisory Council
of the Asian American Justice Center in Washington,
DC. Professor Hing has represented many immigrants
who face deportation due to criminal convictions,
and he volunteers with youth groups committed
to deterring gang activity. |
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