Kevin R. Johnson is Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Mabie/Apallas Public Interest Professor of Law and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California at Davis.  He has published extensively on immigration law and policy, racial identity, and civil rights in national and international journals.  Professor Johnson's book How Did You Get to Be Mexican?  A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity (1999) was nominated for the 2000 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award.  He also has published Race, Civil Rights, and American Law A Multiracial Approach and Mixed Race America and the Law:  A Reader.  Professor Johnson's latest book The "Huddled Masses" Myth Immigration and Civil Rights was published earlier this year.  A graduate of Harvard Law School, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review, Johnson earned his undergraduate degree in economics from UC Berkeley.  After graduation from law school, he clerked for the Honorable Stephen Reinhardt of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Los Angeles and worked as an attorney at Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe in San Francisco.  Professor Johnson has served on the Legal Services of Northern California board of directors since 1996, was Vice President of the board, and is the current President of the board.  He joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1989 and was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998.  Johnson has taught a wide array of law school classes, including immigration law, refugee law, civil procedure, public interest law, Latinos and Latinas and the law, and Critical Race Theory.  In 1993, he was the recipient of the law school's Distinguished Teaching Award.  A regular participant in national and international conferences, Professor Johnson has also held leadership positions in the Association of American Law Schools.  He has been honored for his service by the Minority Groups Section of the Association of American Law Schools with the Clyde Ferguson Award in 2004 and previously by the UC Davis campus.  In 2003, Johnson was elected to the American Law Institute.

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Kevin R. Johnson
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
And Mabie/Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies
University of California at Davis School of Law