Contact: Sheila Villalobos, villalobos@law.duke.edu
Sponsor: Duke University School of Law
Where:
Duke University School of Law, Room 3037
Why: Kevin R. Johnson, Mabie-Apallas Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana/o Studies at University of California-Davis School of Law, will launch the series on March 5 with a discussion of the racial dynamics underlying the immigration debate. A scholar of critical race theory and immigration and refugee law and a prolific author, Johnson's new book is Opening the Floodgates: Why America Needs to Rethink Its Borders and Immigration Laws.