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U.S. Supreme Court,
Law Practice

Aug. 28, 2018

Edited out of the law

A new school year is starting, and I will be teaching Asian-Americans and the Law. I believe it is worthwhile to explain the course.

Frank H. Wu

President Designate
Queens College

Frank is William L. Prosser Distinguished professor at UC Hastings College of the Law.

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Edited out of the law
Wong Kim Ark, in a photograph taken from a 1904 U.S. immigration document.

A new school year is starting, and I will be teaching Asian-Americans and the Law. I believe it is worthwhile to explain the course. I do not usually feel any need to defend the curriculum, but we face skepticism about the value of legal education in general and hostility toward ethnic studies in particular. The state of Arizona, for example, attempted to ban classes such as mine; they recently lost the lawsuit against the decree. So it is no laughing matter, and, to ...

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