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The New Lawyer Supplement

May 21, 2014

Law students work to posthumously admit Chinese immigrant to the bar

More than a century after the State Bar denied his admission, students at UC Davis School of Law are petitioning the bar to admit Hong Yen Chang.


By Alexandra Schwappach


Daily Journal Staff Writer


It often takes a long time for an injustice to be made right. Sometimes it takes more than a century.


Students at UC Davis School of Law know this better than anyone. Members of the law school's Asian Pacific American Law Students Association hope to officially right a wrong this year by petitioning the State Bar to posthumously grant admission to a Hong Yen Chang, a Chinese immigrant who...

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