Monday, February 11, 2008

Keynote Speaker/Outstanding Leadership Award

Professor Bill O. Hing

Professor Hing teaches Judicial Process, Negotiations, Public Service Strategies, Asian American Legal History, and directs the law school clinical program. Throughout his career, he has pursued social justice by combining community work, litigation, and scholarship. He is on the board of directors of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center and the Asian Law Caucus. He also serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center. He is the author of numerous academic and practice-oriented books and articles on immigration policy and race relations. His books include Deporting Our Souls - Values, Morality and Immigration Policy (Cambridge University Press 2006), Defining America Through Immigration Policy (Temple Univ. Press 2004), Making and Remaking Asian America Through Immigration Policy (Stanford Press 1993), Handling Immigration Cases (Aspen Publishers 1995), and Immigration and the Law - a Dictionary (ABC-CLIO 1999). His book To Be An American, Cultural Pluralism and the Rhetoric of Assimilation (NYU Press 1997) received the award for Outstanding Academic Book in 1997 by the librarians' journal Choice. He is on the board of directors of the Asian Law Caucus and the Migration Policy Institute. He also serves on the National Advisory Council of the Asian American Justice Center.


For more information on Professor Hing, click
here.

Past Recipients

Eddy Zhang, 2008

Bill Lann Lee, 2007

Dale Minami, 2006

Judge Edward M. Chen, 2005

Asian Law Caucus, 2004

Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien, 2003

Yuri Kochiyama, 2002

Judge Robert Takasugi, 2001

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