Ming Hsu Chen

University of Colorado Law School

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401 UCB

Boulder, CO 80309

United States

Center for the Study of Law & Society

Visiting Scholar

2240 Piedmont Avenue

Berkeley, CA 94720

United States

University of Colorado, Boulder - Political Science

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1070 Edinboro Drive

Boulder, CO 80309

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Trust in Immigration Enforcement: State Noncooperation and Sanctuary Cities after Secure Communities

91 Chicago Kent L Rev (2015)
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2015
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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immigration, executive action, detainers, cooperative federalism, legitimacy

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Beyond Legality: The Legitimacy of Executive Action in Immigration Law

66 Syracuse Law Review 87 (2015-2016), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 15-4
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 26 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 15 Aug 2016
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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immigration, executive action, administrative law, DACA, DAPA, cooperative federalism

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The Administrator-in-Chief

69 Administrative Law Review 347 (2017)
Number of pages: 83 Posted: 16 Aug 2016 Last Revised: 14 Jun 2017
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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administrative law, immigration law, Constitutional law

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Where You Stand Depends on Where You Sit: Bureaucratic Incorporation of Immigrants in Federal Workplace Agencies

Berkeley Journal of Employment and Labor Law, 2012, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-03
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 11 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 24 Feb 2015
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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immigration, labor and employment, administrative law, politics, regulation, social science, legal mobilization, rights, Hoffman Plastic

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Immigration and Cooperative Federalism: Toward a Doctrinal Framework

85 University of Colorado Law Review 1087 (2014)
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 May 2014 Last Revised: 18 Jun 2014
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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Immigration, Federalism, Constitutional Law

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Administrator-in-Chief in the Trump Era of Immigration Enforcement

A version of this piece appeared in Yale J. On Reg.: Notice & Comment (June 21, 2017)
Number of pages: 2 Posted: 05 Jul 2017
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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immigration, executive power, administrative law, agencies, Constitutional law, travel ban

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Reimagining Democratic Inclusion: Asian Americans and the Voting Rights Act

3 U.C. Irvine Law Review 359 (2013), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-20
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 04 Nov 2012 Last Revised: 03 Nov 2013
Ming Hsu Chen and Taeku Lee
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society and University of California, Berkeley - Charles and Louise Travers Department of Political Science
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voting rights/Voting Rights Act, election law, democracy, race, Asian American, civil rights, culture, empirical legal studies

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Alienated: A Reworking of the Racialization Thesis after September 11th

American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy & the Law, Vol. 18, No. 3, p. 101, 2010
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 03 Aug 2010
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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race, immigration, Asian American, September 11

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Leveraging Social Science Expertise in Immigration Policymaking

Northwestern University Law Review Online, Vol. 112, 2018, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-10
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 22 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 18 May 2018
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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Immigration Law, Administrative Law, Social Science, Evidence-Based Policy

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Governing by Guidance: Civil Rights Agencies and the Emergence of Language Rights

49 Harv. C.R.-C.L. L. Rev. 201 (2014), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 13-16
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 23 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 03 May 2014
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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civil rights, immigration, race, language rights, administrative law, legislation, politics, public law, legal history

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Silence and the Second Wall

Southern California Interdisciplinary Law Journal, Vol. 27, 2019, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-4
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 11 Mar 2019 Last Revised: 17 Aug 2019
Ming Hsu Chen and Zachary New
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society and Joseph Law Firm
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Immigration, immigration law, sanctuary, social movements

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Sanctuary Networks and Integrative Enforcement

Washington and Lee Law Review, Vol. 75, 2018, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-11
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 08 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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Explaining Disparities in Asylum Claims

Georgetown Public Policy Review, Vol. 12, p. 29, 2006
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 07 Oct 2010
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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asylum, administrative law, public law

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Language Rights as a Legacy of the Civil Rights Act of 1964

Southern Methodist University Law Review, Vol. 67, p. 247, 2014
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 17 Jul 2015
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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civil rights, language, national origin, administrative law

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Regulatory Rights: Civil Rights Agencies, Courts, and the Entrenchment of Language Rights

The Rights Revolution Revisited (Cambridge University Press 2018), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 18-22
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 30 May 2018 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2018
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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civil rights, immigration, race, language, policy, history

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The Political (Mis)representation of Immigrants in Voting

University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 92, 2021, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-4
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Feb 2021 Last Revised: 15 Mar 2021
Ming Hsu Chen and Hunter Knapp
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society and University of Colorado Law School
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Voting, immigration, equality, race

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Sacred Places, Civic Purposes: Should Government Help Faith-Based Charities?

SACRED PLACES, CIVIC PURPOSES: SHOULD GOVERNMENT HELP FAITH-BASED CHARITY? E.J. Dionne & Ming Chen, eds., Brookings Press, 2001
Number of pages: 21 Posted: 01 Aug 2010
E. J. Dionne and Ming Hsu Chen
Brookings Institution and University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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Faith, Religion, Civil Society, Politics, Charity

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Citizenship Delayed: Civil Rights and Voting Rights Implications of the Backlog in Citizenship and Naturalization Applications

University of Colorado Law Review Forum, Vol. 91, 2019, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 19-30
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 05 Nov 2019 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2019
Ming Hsu Chen and Colorado State Advisory Committee
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society and U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
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citizenship, immigration, civil rights, voting rights, administrative law

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Citizenship Denied: Implications of the Naturalization Backlog for Noncitizens in the Military

98 Denver Law Review 669 (2020), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-8
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 16 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 07 Jul 2020
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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Two Wrongs Make a Right: Hybrid Claims of Discrimination

New York University Law Review, Vol. 79, No. 600, p. 101, 2004
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 18 Jan 2010 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2010
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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discrimination, race, religion, September 11, equal protection

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How Much Procedure Is Needed for Agencies to Change 'Novel' Regulatory Policies

Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 71, 2020, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-9
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 16 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 02 Jun 2020
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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Making Litigating Citizenship More Fair

73 Vanderbilt Law Review En Banc 133 (2020), U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 20-28
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 09 Jun 2020 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2020
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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immigration, citizenship, due process

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The Political Misrepresentation of Immigrants in the Census

New York University Law Review, Vol. 96, 2021, U of Colorado Law Legal Studies Research Paper No. 21-18
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 02 Apr 2021 Last Revised: 07 May 2021
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society
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Voting, census, politics, immigration, equality, race

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Who Migrates and Why: Plyler v. Doe in the Modern Era

Posted: 23 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 25 Feb 2015
Ming Hsu Chen
University of Colorado Law SchoolCenter for the Study of Law & Society

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Undocumented Immigrants, Mexico, Migration, Education, Employment