Jennifer M. Chacón

Jennifer M. Chacón is joining the faculty as a Professor of Law at Stanford Law School on July 1, 2022. She previously served as a Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, the UCLA School of Law, and the UC Davis King Hall School of Law, and as a Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Administration at the University of California, Irvine, School of Law.

Professor Chacón is the co-author of the immigration law textbook Immigration Law and Social Justice, now in its second edition, and the co-author of a forthcoming book on the impact of shifting immigration policies on immigrant communities and organizations in Southern California from 2014 to 2018, tentatively entitled Legal Phantoms: Executive Action and the Haunting Failures of Immigration Law. She has written dozens of articles, book chapters, and essays on immigration, criminal law, constitutional law, and citizenship issues. Her research has been funded by the Russell Sage Foundation, the National Science Foundation, and the University of California.

Professor Chacón is the immediate past Chair of the American Association of Law School’s Section on Immigration. She is also a member of the American Law Institute and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Rules Committee. She is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation (ABF) and currently serves on the ABF Board of Directors. She has served on the Advisory Committee of the American Bar Foundation’s “Future of Latinos in the U.S.” project and on the University of Oxford Border Criminologies Advisory Group. She was a co-convenor of the Immigration Policy Advisory Committee to then-Senator Barack Obama during his 2008 presidential campaign, and an outside advisor to the Immigration Transition Team of President- Elect Barack Obama from November 2008 through January 2009.

Professor Chacόn was an associate at the New York law firm of Davis Polk and Wardwell after clerking for the Honorable Sidney R. Thomas of the Ninth Circuit (1998-1999). She has also held appointments as a Visiting Professor of Law at Stanford Law School (2015-2016) and Harvard Law School (2014-2015). She received the Distinguished Teaching Award at the UC Davis King Hall School of Law in 2009, and she received student-sponsored teaching awards at Harvard Law School in 2014, and the UCLA School of Law in 2021. She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and an A.B. in International Relations from Stanford University.

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