Editors
Kevin R. Johnson
Kevin R. Johnson has been writing on ImmProf Blog since its founding in 2005. He is a Mabie-Apallas Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Aoki Center. Johnson also has an appointment as Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. He joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1989 and was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998. Johnson then served as Dean from 2008 to 2024, the longest term in UC Davis School of Law history. He has taught a wide array of classes, including immigration law, civil procedure, complex litigation, Latinos and Latinas and the law, and Critical Race Theory. In 1993, he was the recipient of the law school's Distinguished Teaching Award. Click for full bio.
Kit Johnson
Professor Johnson teaches Immigration, Crimmigration, and Civil Procedure. Her scholarship focuses on immigration law. Prior to teaching, Johnson was an attorney with the Los Angeles law firm of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP, where she practiced general commercial litigation. Her clients included Berkshire Hathaway, Rambus, and Brighton Collectibles. Johnson also provided pro bono representation in several adoption and guardianship proceedings before the Los Angeles county courts. In addition, she served on the Board of Directors of Inner Circle Foster Care and Adoption Services, a non-profit agency in California's San Fernando Valley. Click for full bio.
Ming Hsu Chen
Ming Hsu Chen is a Professor of Law and Faculty-Director of the Race, Immigration, Citizenship, and Equality Program. She teaches courses in Constitutional Law, Legislation and Administrative Regulation, Citizenship, and Immigration. Professor Chen brings an interdisciplinary perspective to the study of race, immigration, and the administrative state. Her scholarship is published in leading law reviews and social science journals. She is author of Pursuing Citizenship in the Enforcement Era (Stanford University Press 2020), on which she gave a TEDx Talk in 2020. She serves as Co-Editor for the Immigration Prof blog (@immprof) and the executive committee for the AALS Immigration Section and the Law and Society Association’s Citizenship and Migration Section. Click for full bio.
Bill Ong Hing
Throughout his career, Professor Bill Ong Hing pursued social justice through a combination of community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented publications on immigration policy and race relations, including Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System (Beacon Press 2023), American Presidents, Deportation and Human Rights Violations (Cambridge Univ. Press 2019); Ethical Borders—NAFTA, Globalization, and Mexican Migration (Temple University Press, 2010), and many more books. He was also co-counsel in the precedent-setting U.S. Supreme Court asylum case, INS v. Cardoza–Fonseca (1987), and represented the State Bar of California in In Re Sergio Garcia (2014), in granting a law license to an undocumented law graduate. Hing is the founder of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco and continues to volunteer as general counsel for this organization. Click for full bio.
Ingrid Eagly
Ingrid Eagly is a Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law where she also serves as Faculty Co-Director of the Criminal Law and Policy Consortium. Professor Eagly is leading expert on the intersection between immigration enforcement and the criminal legal system. Her recent work explores a range of topics, including access to counsel in U.S. immigration courts, the role of counsel in advising noncitizens charged with crimes, the rising reliance on immigrant detention, and barriers facing unaccompanied children on the move. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard Law School, Eagly has been a member of the ImmigrationProf Blog since 2020. Click for full bio. UCLA law page. SSRN page. ORCID.
Austin Kocher
Austin Kocher is a political and legal geographer studying the theories, laws, and institutional practices behind immigration enforcement. His research focuses on the political and legal geography of immigration enforcement, examining topics such as electronic monitoring, the digitization of asylum processes, and 287(g) policies. His work critically analyzes the intersection of technology and immigration control, as well as the socio-legal challenges faced by immigrants within the U.S. legal system. He is an Assistant Research Professor in the Office of Research and Creative Activity in the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Click for full bio.