Professor Jennifer Chacón, Life Fellow and Fellows Research Advisory Committee member, was interviewed for the Stanford Lawyer, where she spoke about her newest book, Legal Phantoms, and how it came to be. Chacón co-wrote the book with two colleagues from her time at UC Irvine, Susan Bibler Coutin and Stephen Lee.
The book was released in January of 2024 and focuses on the issues that came about after almost a decade of promised federal immigration reform did not come to fruition and was based on roughly 135 interviews with government officials, immigration advocates, attorneys at immigrant rights organizations, and individuals who stood to benefit from thwarted immigration reform programs.
Chacón is the Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where she teaches courses such as Carceral Borders and Criminal Law. She is the co-author of the immigration law textbook Immigration Law and Social Justice, now in its second edition.
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