Raquel Aldana | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Raquel Aldana
		Professor of Law


		Phone: 702 895-2699 Email: raquel.aldana@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: B.A. summa cum laude, Arizona State University, 1993 J.D. Harvard Law School, 1997

	Professor Aldana earned her J.D. degree in 1997 from Harvard Law School, where she served as articles editor of the Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review. Prior to coming to the Boyd School of Law, Professor Aldana worked for the Center for Justice and International Law representing victims of gross human rights violations in the Inter-American System on Human Rights. She also taught a seminar in human rights at the University of Baltimore School of Law. Prior to that, she was an associate at the law firm of Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue in Washington, D.C. Professor Aldana teaches Immigration Law, Criminal Law and Criminal Procedure, International Human Rights, and International Public Law. She also co-teaches experiential learning courses, including a course in Nicaragua on domestic violence in a post-conflict society and a course on the criminalization of immigrants. She spent the Spring of 2006 as a Fulbright Scholar in Guatemala, where she taught courses on economic rights and conducted research on femicide.

	Areas of Expertise: Criminal Law and Procedure Immigration and Alienage Law International Public Law

	Selected Publications: BOOK Everyday Law For Latinos (forthcoming 2008) (with S. Bender & J.Avila). LAW REVIEW AND OTHER ARTICLES Silent Victims No More?: Moral Indignation and the Potential for Latino Political Mobilization in Defense of Immigrants,___ 45 HOUS. L. REV. 101 ___ (forthcoming 2008). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Of Katz and “Aliens”: Privacy Expectations and the Immigration Raids, ___ 41 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 101___ (2008) (forthcoming). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein The Illusion of Transformative Conflict Resolution: Mediation Domestic Violence Cases in Nicaragua, ___ 55 Buff. L. Rev. 1261___ (2008) (with Leticia Saucedo). SSRN Lexis Westlaw Hein The Subordination and Anti-Subordination Story of the U.S. Immigrant Experience in the 21^stCentury, __ 7 Nev. L. J. 713__ (2007) (Lat Crit Symposium Cluster Introduction). Lexis Westlaw Hein On Rights, Federal Citizenship, and the “Alien”, 46 Washburn L. Rev. 101 (2007). Lexis Westlaw Hein BAR AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS Salt Statement on Post 9/11 Anti-Immigrant Measures, available at http://www.saltlaw.org/immigration (2007) (with Steve Bender) Steps Closer to Justice for Past Crimes in Argentina and Chile: A Story of Judicial Boldness, INSTANT ANALYSIS, Nov. 17, 2004, available at http://www.law.case.edu/war-crimes-research-portal/instant_analysis.asp. The U.S. Supreme Court Grants Partial Victory to Some Non – Citizens in Indefinite INS Detention, NEV. LAW., Nov. 2001, at 15. --> More Publications (pdf)

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