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Ming Hsu Chen
Year: Advanced to Candidacy (ABD) - JSP
Education:New York University, JD 2004
Harvard University, AB 2000 (Social Studies and Religion)
Public Law (Constitutional/Administrative)
Courts and Politics
Political Sociology
Social Movements and Social Change
Politics Identities and Identity Politics: Race, Ethnicity, and Immigration
Citizenship and Pluralism
Institute for Governmental Studies, Synar Award (2009)
Center for Latino Policy Research Mini-Grant (2008)
Labor and Employment Research Fund Mini-Grant (2007)
Selznick Fellow (2005-07)
Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans (2001)
Teaching Assistant, Law, Politics, and Society, Fall 2006 and Fall 2007
Teaching Assistant, Law and Religion, Fall 2002
Coordinator, Asian American Jurisprudence Seminar, 2001-04
Research Assistant, Irene Bloemraad, Spring 2008
Research Assistant, Sarah Song, Fall 2007 and Spring 2008
Principal Investigator, Who Migrates and Why: Plyler v. Doe in Modern Era, Spring 2007
Research Assistant, Angela Harris, Summer 2006
Research Assistant, Rachel Moran, Summer 2004
Research Assistant, Noah Feldman, Spring 2002
Law Clerk, US Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit, 2004-05
Summer Associate, US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Appellate Services, 2003
Summer Associate, NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, 2002
Research Associate, Brookings Institution, Government Studies, 2000-01
Abstract:
How did regulatory agencies manage to expand upon rights enacted in federal civil rights legislation from 1964-79 to produce a minority rights revolution? Drawing on language rights as a proxy for political and legal integration of Asians and Latinos in voting, schools, and the workplace, my hypothesis is that public interest law firms forged sustained rights campaigns that targeted administrative agencies' interpretation of federal civil rights laws. Through their interventions into agency implementation of statutory mandates, they increased the agency's organizational capacity and strengthened the comprehensiveness of its regulatory benefits. As such, public interest law firms comprised a crucial part of the institutional support structure that generated a new form of coalition politics that transcend state-nonstate divides.
Other conference papers and publications:
Ming H. Chen, From Civil Rights to Multiculturalism: Lau v. Nichols and the Development of Language Rights in Public Schools (CAPALF Conference and Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop - March 2009, November 2008)
Ming H. Chen, Minority Language Rights as Multiculturalism Policy in the US (LSA Conference - May 2008)
Ming H. Chen, Who Migrates and Why: Plyler v. Doe in the Modern Era (Warren Institute for Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity and LSA Summer Institute � May 2007, July 2007)
Ming H. Chen, Nation of Immigrants or New Civil Rights Movement? (Spotlight on Immigration � March 2006)
Ming H. Chen, Deciding Asylum Claims: Preliminary Results, 12 Georgetown Public Policy Review 29 (2006)
Ming H. Chen, Alienated: Reworking the Racialization Thesis (LatCrit XI Conference � October 2006)
Ming H. Chen, Two Wrongs Make a Right: Hybrid Claims of Discrimination, 79 NYU L. Rev. 685 (2004)
E.J. Dionne & Ming Hsu Chen, eds., Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charity? (Brookings Press 2001)
