Kevin R. Johnson is the Dean of the UC Davis School of Law (King Hall). Before becoming a professor, he was a student at

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where he served as an editor of the

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, served as a clerk to Judge

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of the

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, and worked for law firm Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe. Johnson joined the faculty at the

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(King Hall) in 1989, was named Associate Dean in 1998, and the Dean in 2008. Of Mexican American ancestry, he is the first Latino to head a law school in the UC system. Dean Johnson is a scholar in civil rights, chicano/a studies, and immigration law. He serves on the board of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, and as the president of the board of directors of Legal Services of Northern California. Johnson was a senior immigration advisor to President Barack Obama during his presidential candidacy, and contributes to the influence immigration law blog, ImmigrationProf He received a

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in Economics from the

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and a J.D., ''

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'', from

Selected publications

*Kevin R. Johnson, ''The End of "Civil Rights" as We Know It?: Immigration and Civil Rights in the New Millennium'', 49 UCLA L. Rev. 1481 (2002).

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Johnson, Kevin Year of birth missing (living people) American academics of Mexican descent Living people Deans of law schools in California University of California, Berkeley alumni Harvard Law School alumni UC Davis School of Law faculty