Santa Clara University

Law Briefs: Faculty/Staff Update

Other new academic appointments

Molly D. Current is director of the Legal Analysis Research and Writing program (LARAW). She is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and Georgetown University Law School, where she graduated magna cum laude and served on the editorial board of the Georgetown Law Journal. She clerked for Judge Harold Greene of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia and Judge Frank Johnson of the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals. She has practiced law in Washington, D.C., and in the state of Washington and has been a visiting assistant professor of law at Chicago-Kent Law School, where she taught in the legal research and writing program.

Michael Chang will serve as the Center for Social Justice and Public Service Teaching Scholar for 2004-05. He utilizes qualitative sociological and anthropological methods and theory to research how jurisprudence is practiced in critical race theory. His dissertation, “Racial Politics in an Era of Transnational Citizenship: The ‘Asian Donorgate’ Controversy in Perspective,” will be published this fall by Lexington Books. While at SCU, Professor Chang’s plans to research “An Asian American Interest Convergence Problem,” which will address equality as it relates to citizenship status. In addition, he will teach Critical Race Theory in the spring.