Dean's Book Review
With Elizabeth Kronk Warner, dean of the
S.J. Quinney College of Law, University of Utah
The May selection—Race, Rights, and the Asian American Experience, second edition, by Angelo N. Ancheta—aligns with Asian Pacific American Heritage Month.
Ancheta examines legal and social theories of racial discrimination, ethnic differences in the Asian American population, nativism, citizenship, language, school desegregation, and affirmative action. In the revised edition of this influential book. He analyzes recent legal cases involving political empowerment, language rights, human trafficking, immigrant rights, and affirmative action in higher education-many of which move the country farther away from the ideals of racial justice. On a more positive note, he reports on the progress Asian Americans have made in the corporate sector, politics, the military, entertainment, and academia.
The book is a skillful mixture of legal theories, court cases, historical events, and personal insights, this revised edition brings fresh insights to U.S. civil rights from an Asian American perspective.
When | Thursday, May 28 , 8–9 am (MDT)
Where | Online event—a link will be provided when you RSVP
Registration | This event is free, and an RSVP is required
Panelists include:
Marlene Gonzalez, Pearson Butler
Augustus Chin, Holladay Justice Court
The book may be purchased or downloaded to your Kindle or Nook. It is not required that you purchase or read the book to participate in this book review.
Questions? Email robbi.richter@law.utah.edu.
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Elizabeth Kronk Warner, dean of the University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law since July 1, 2019, is the first female and first Native American to hold the position in the college’s 107-year history.
Prior to arriving in Utah, she worked at the University of Kansas School of Law as faculty, a position she started in June 2012. Kronk Warner also has served on the law faculties at Texas Tech University and the University of Montana. In 2010, Kronk Warner was selected to serve as an Environmental Justice Young Fellow through the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and U.S.-China Partnership for Environmental Law at Vermont Law School. She has also served as a visiting professor at Xiamen University in Xiamen, China, and Bahcesehir University in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2014, Kronk Warner received the Immel Award for Excellence in Teaching, and in 2016 she received the Dean Frederick J. Moreau teaching and mentoring award from the graduating class.
Her scholarship, which focuses primarily on the intersection of Indian Law and Environmental Law, is published in several prominent journals, including the Arizona Law Review, Colorado Law Review and Columbia Journal of Environmental Law. She is also co-author of the casebook Native American Natural Resources, and she co-edited Climate Change and Indigenous People: The Search for Legal Remedies. In addition to teaching, Kronk Warner serves as an appellate judge for the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians Court of Appeals in Michigan and as a district judge for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Kansas.
Before entering academia, Kronk Warner practiced environmental, Indian, and energy law as an associate in the Washington, D.C. offices of Latham & Watkins LLP and Troutman Sanders LLP. She previously served as chair of the Federal Bar Association Indian Law Section and was elected to the Association’s national board of directors in 2011. She also served as chairwoman of the Kansas Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission. Kronk Warner received her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and a B.S. from Cornell University. She is a citizen of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.