Charles McClain
I serve as Vice Chair of the JSP and Legal Studies programs and as administrative coordinator of the latter program.
I teach courses on American and European Legal History.
Among my main scholarly interests are American constitutional history and Asian Americans and the law. In 1994 I published the book, In Search of Equality: The Chinese Struggle Against Discrimination in Nineteenth-Century America and the four-volume anthology Asian Americans and the Law: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives. I am the author of a recent work on the history of the modern California Supreme Court and am presently engaged in research on that court's early history.
In 2003 I received the Distinguished Research Mentoring Award, which is presented annually by the UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science in recognition of faculty mentoring of undergraduate research projects.
I have been a visiting professor at Santa Clara University Law School and have taught in the University of Nevada at Reno's Master of Judicial Studies Program and at the Summer Law Institute, Kenneth Wang School of Law, Soochow University, China. Before coming to Boalt in 1977, I worked on the legal staff of the American Association of University Professors.
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