Ming Hsu Chen appointed to Colorado State Advisory Committee
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Chen joined the Colorado Law faculty as an associate professor in 2011, with a focus on public law, immigration, citizenship, race and empirical legal studies. She is currently writing a book about the significance of the federal government in immigrant integration and cooperative federalism and has previously published articles on the political incorporation of Asian Americans and minority vote dilution, the post-9/11 treatment of Muslim Americans, asylum adjudication and the role of faith in public life.
From 2010 to 2011, Chen served as a visiting scholar at George Washington Law School and a graduate fellow at the University of California's Washington Center. She earned a PhD in jurisprudence and social policy at the University of California Berkeley, a JD at New York University Law School and an AB from Harvard College.