Constitutional Law, Critical Race Theory/Race and the Law, Federal Indian Law, Civil Procedure
Assistant Professor of Law
Courses: Constitutional Law I & II, Race and the Law
Nonresident Fellow, Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, UC Irvine
Associate Professor of Law
Courses: Constitutional Law I & II, Race and the Law
Visiting Associate Professor of Law
Academic Enrichment Program
Assistant Professor of Law
Courses: Civil Procedure, Constitutional Law, Race and the Law
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Dissertation: Marginalized Significance: Race, Social Science, and the Supreme Court
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Law Journal for Social Justice, Editor-in-Chief; Pro-Bono Designation
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
Works in Progress
Catherine Smith, Tanya Washington, Robin Walker Sterling, Jeremiah Chin, and Sarah Hildebrand, The Child and the Law (West) (forthcoming 2027 & Teacher’s Manual 2027).
Lia Epperson & Jeremiah Chin, Spaces for Opportunity in National Reckoning: Animating the Right to Education in the Reconstruction of Democracy, ___ U. Penn. L. Rev. ___ (forthcoming 2026).
Jeremiah Chin, Seen Not Heard: The Exploitation of Children and the First Amendment (in progress).
Jeremiah Chin & Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, A Hairstory of Violence: Hair and Conquest for Black and Native Youth (in progress).
Books
Sabina Vaught, Bryan Brayboy, & Jeremiah Chin, The School-Prison Trust (2022).
Articles
Jeremiah Chin, Self-Determination through Children’s Rights: Resisting the Paradoxical Pretext of Parental Rights Legislation, 100 Wash. L. Rev. 867 (2025).
Jeremiah Chin, Constitutional Futurisms, 120 Nw. U. L. R. 39 (2025).
Jeremiah Chin, Constitutional Futurism as Pedagogy, 40 Seattle U. L. Rev. 1191 (2025).
Jeremiah Chin, The Assault on DEI, 111.2 Academe 27 (2025).
Jeremiah Chin, The Next Generation, 112 K. L. J. 729 (2024).
Jeremiah Chin, Antimatters: The Curious Case of Confederate Monuments, 103 B. U. L. Rev. 311 (2023).
William Knight, Nicholas Bustamante, & Jeremiah Chin, Duren v. Missouri: A Post-Peremptory Path to Representative Juries, Arizona Attorney, 59, no.8 (April 2023): 18-27. https://perma.cc/4YE3-QN6A.
Jeremiah Chin, Modern Authorities: For jurists who have considered social science when doctrine was not enough, 13.2 Ala. Civ. R. Civ. Liberties L. Rev. 265 (2022).
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy & Jeremiah Chin, On the Development of Terrortory, Contexts, 19, no. 3 (August 2020): 22–27. https://doi.org/10.1177/1536504220950397.
Jeremiah Chin, Nicholas Bustamante, Jessica Solyom & Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Terminus Amnesia: Cherokee Freedmen, Citizenship, and Education, 55.1 Theory into Practice 28 (2016).
Jeremiah Chin, Red Law, White Supremacy: Cherokee Freedmen, Tribal Sovereignty, and the Colonial Feedback Loop, 47 John Marshall L. Rev. 1227 (2014).
Jeremiah Chin, ‘Lockdown for Liberty!: Labor, Black Masculinity and Mass Incarceration in Georgia, 4 L.J.Soc. Justice 54 (2013).
Jeremiah Chin, What a Load of Hope: The Post-Racial Mixtape, 48 Cal. W. L. Rev 369 (2012).
Jessica Solyom, Jeremiah Chin, & Kristi Ryujin, Be careful what you ask for: Educación Para Todo/as, the perils and the power. 7 Nev. L. J. 862 (2007).
Book Chapters
Colin Ben, Amber Poleviyuma, Jeremiah Chin, Alexus Richmond, Megan Tom, Sarah Abuwandi. The Self-Contained Scholar: Racialized Burdens of Being Nice in Higher Education, in The Price of Nice: How Good Intentions Maintain Educational Inequity. (Angelina E. Castagno, ed., 2019).
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy & Jeremiah Chin, A Match Made in Heaven: Critical Race Theory and Critical Indigenous Research Methodologies, in Understanding Critical Race Research methods and Methodologies: Lessons from the Field (Jessica T. DeCuir-Gunby, Thandeka K. Chapman, & Paul A. Schutz, eds., 2019).
Jeremiah Chin, Nicholas Bustamante, & Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Carceral Colonialisms: Schools, Prisons, and Indigenous Youth in the United States, in Handbook of Indigenous Education (Elizabeth Ann McKinley & Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds. 2019).
Jessica Solyom, Jeremiah Chin, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Amber Polyeviyuma, Amanda Tachine, Colin Ben, and Megan Bang. Systems of Support: What Higher Education Can Do for Indigenous Communities, in Handbook of Indigenous Education (Elizabeth Ann McKinley & Linda Tuhiwai Smith, eds. 2019).
Mary Romero & Jeremiah Chin, Critical Race Theory, in The Cambridge Handbook of Sociology: Volume 2: Specialty and Interdisciplinary Studies. (Kathleen Odell Korgen ed., 2017).
Amicus Briefs
Robert S. Chang, Susan McMahon, Charlotte Garden, Jessica Levin, Melissa Lee, Jeremiah Chin, and Jim Davy, Brief of Amici Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, et. al. in Support of Plaintiff-Appellees, Perkins Coie, LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice, Et. Al., United States Court of Appeals for the District of Colombia, Nos. 25-5241, 25-5265, 25-5277, 25-5310 (April 3, 2026).
Amalia Sax-Boulder, Travis Chance, and Brittani A. Tanenbaum with Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, and Schreck, LLP, Catherine Smith, Tanya Washington, Robin Walker Sterling, Jeremiah Chin, and Sara Hildebrand, Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars for the Advancement of Children’s Constitutional Rights in Support of Defendants-Appellants, Roy v. Patterson, United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit, No. 25-1187 (Sept. 15, 2025).
Catherine Smith, Tanya Washington, Jeremiah Chin, Sarah Camiscoli, and Amalia Sax-Boulder and Travis Chance with Brownstein, Hyatt, Farber, and Schreck, LLP, Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars for the Advancement of Children’s Constitutional Rights and Students Engaged in Advancing Texas as Amici Curiae in Support of Respondents, Mahmoud v. Taylor, United States Supreme Court, No. 24-297 (April 9, 2025).
Robert S. Chang, Susan McMahon, Charlotte Garden, Jessica Levin, Melissa Lee, Jeremiah Chin, and Jim Davy, Brief of Amici Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, et. al. in Support of Plaintiffs, Susman Godfrey LLP v. Executive Office of the President, Et. Al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 1:25-cv-001107-LLA (April 22, 2025).
Robert S. Chang, Susan McMahon, Charlotte Garden, Jessica Levin, Melissa Lee, Jeremiah Chin, and Jim Davy, Brief of Amici Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, et. al. in Support of Plaintiffs, Perkins Coie, LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice, Et. Al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 1:25-cv-00716-BAH (April 9, 2025).
Robert S. Chang, Susan McMahon, Charlotte Garden, Jessica Levin, Melissa Lee, Jeremiah Chin, and Jim Davy, Brief of Amici Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, et. al. in Support of Plaintiffs, Jenner & Block LLP v. U.S. Department of Justice, et al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 1:25-cv-00916-JDB (April 11, 2025).
Robert S. Chang, Susan McMahon, Charlotte Garden, Jessica Levin, Melissa Lee, Jeremiah Chin, and Jim Davy, Brief of Amici Curiae Fred T. Korematsu Center for Law and Equality, et. al. in Support of Plaintiffs, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP v. Executive office of the President, et. al., United States District Court for the District of Columbia, No. 1:25-cv-00977-RJL (April 11, 2025).
Lauren Fontana, Tanya M. Washington, Catherine Smith, Robin Walker Sterling, Suzette Malveaux, Jeremiah Chin, & Sara S. Hildebrand, Brief of Amici Curiae Scholars for the Advancement of Children’s Constitutional Rights in Support of Defendants-Appellees, St. Mary Catholic Parish v. Lisa Roy, US District Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit No. 24-1267 (October 23, 2024).
Monte Mills, Jeremiah Chin, Mia Montoya Hammersley, Fredrick Ole Ikayo, Clare Derby, & Natasha De La Cruz, Amicus Brief of Native Nations in Montana, Kathryn Shanley, and Denise Juneau, Held v. State of Montana, Montana Supreme Court No. DA 23-0575 (March 22, 2024).
Julia Olson, Mat Dos Santos, Philip L. Gregory, Catherine E. Smith, & Jeremiah Chin, Amicus Brief of Children’s Rights Legal Scholars and Advocates as Amici Curiae in Support of Neither Party, Trump v. Anderson, US Supreme Court No. 23-719 (January 15, 2024)
Reports
Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Jessica Solyom, Jeremiah Chin, Amanda Tachine, Megan Bang, Nicholas Bustamante, Colin Ben, Ceni Myles, & Amber Poleviyuma. A Study of Indigenous Boys and Men. RISE for Boys & Men of Color (2017).
Blog Posts
Jeremiah Chin, Silencing Children’s Rights: Traditions of Control, Parental Rights, and Normative Sexuality in Mahmoud v. Taylor, verfassungsblog.de, July 10, 2025.
Jeremiah Chin, Eight Legal Experts on Trump’s Assault on Higher Education: The Assault on DEI, AAUP Academe and LPE Blog, March 27, 2025.
Jeremiah Chin, Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy, Sabina Vaught, What does it mean to dream?, London School of Economics, July 30, 2021.
Jeremiah Chin, Cybersquatting on Social Media, Cyberbeartracks, Dec. 4, 2013.
Jeremiah Chin, Where is Waldo.com? Problems of Personal Jurisdiction in Cyberspace, Cyberbeartracks, Dec. 4, 2013.
Jeremiah Chin, E-Sovereignty: Internet Governance and National Boundaries. Cyberbeartracks. Dec. 4, 2013.
Seattle Mayor Katie Wilson issues order prohibiting ICE from city property
KIRO 7 Tonight, KIRO 7 Seattle January 29, 2026
https://muckrack.com/broadcast/savedclips/view/59vpEnHvHU
What WA residents should know about their constitutional rights amid federal protests
Good Day Seattle, FOX 13 Seattle January 27, 2026
https://www.fox13seattle.com/video/fmc-8p72q499wamuvh1n
Three-Minute Legal Talks: The Mahmoud v. Taylor Supreme Court Case Explained
https://youtu.be/PkRBKJPPtD8?si=3eJSqyTB93eUBouX July 11, 2025
Studying Constitutional Law at UW, as the Rule of Law is Under Threat
Seattle NOW, KUOW.org March 18, 2025
https://youtu.be/T2cmd9HaVfs?si=zXIrVMPaC7VVk1ad
President Trump’s Executive Orders, KOMO-TV News March 18, 2025
https://muckrack.com/broadcast/savedclips/view/7feWGNagDD
They Had Standing, UW Discovery Podcast January 8, 2025
https://www.law.uw.edu/news-events/discovery/season-7/they-had-standing
The School-Prison Trust, The Big Rhetorical Podcast November 29, 2022
Storytelling for the Generations, Indian Country Today Newscast July 26, 2022
https://indiancountrytoday.com/newscasts/05-25-22-storytelling-for-the-generations
Florida Governor signs controversial voting bill, NBC Nightly News May 6, 2021
Rights 4 Children Spring Convening, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL April 16th, 2025
University of Oregon, 2025 O’Connell Conference September 15, 2025
Microsoft, API in CELA and Davis Wright & Tremaine, Redmond, Washington May 7, 2025
Philanthropy Northwest: Building Community Philanthropy (Virtual Convening) April 23, 2025
Practices of Freedom & The Black Fantastic, University of Pittsburgh, (virtual convening)
Georgia State University College of Law, Atlanta, Georgia
Philanthropy Northwest: Building Community Philanthropy, Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA
Federal Bar Association for the Western District of Washington Annual District Meeting
Native American Law Students Association & Black Law Students Association, NYU Law, virtual event
Center for Urban Education Summer Educator Forum, University of Pittsburgh, Virtual Conference, https://youtu.be/IulrT-6gRJo
Center for Urban Education, University of Pittsburgh, virtual seminar
Cultivating Black & Native Futures in Education, virtual conference
https://www.cultivatingblacknativefutures.org/
Educational Leadership Speaker Series, PittEd Justice Collective, University of Pittsburgh, virtual event
Center for Imagination in the Borderlands, Arizona State University, virtual event https://imaginationborderlands.asu.edu/fearful-symmetries
George Washington School of Law, Washington D.C.
Prof. Nila Bala, UC Davis School of Law (virtual speaker)
2024-2025 Laura D. Gass Symposium, The Washington and Lee Law Review, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia
American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA
American Studies Association, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Boston University Law Review 2025 Symposium: The University and Democracy, Boston, MA
University of Pennsylvania Law Review 2025 Symposium: The Future of Law and Multiracial Democracy, Philadelphia, PA
Drexel Law Review Symposium: Weaving It All Together: Hair, Health, Law & Policy, Philadelphia.
Law for Black Lives, Virtual Panel Discussion
AAUP, Critical Legal Collective, Scholars for a New Deal in Higher Education, Virtual Panel Discussion
JTB-APO Summer Legal Institute, Seattle, Washington
Langston Writing Workshop, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington
Calling Up Justice, Virtual event (https://youtu.be/dElolbx0O_g?si=tWEtb_XlptY0_mvH )
EPOCH Symposium, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington
2024-2025 Laura D. Gass Symposium, The Washington and Lee Law Review, Washington and Lee University School of Law, Lexington, Virginia
American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California
American Association of Law Schools Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California
Northwestern University Law Review Symposium: Racial Justice After SFFA v. Harvard, Chicago, Illinois
Pacifica Law Group, Seattle, Washington
JTB-APO Summer Legal Institute, Seattle, Washington
Langston Writing Workshop, Northwestern University School of Law, Chicago, Illinois
Law and Society Association Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado
Seattle University School of Law, virtual event (https://youtu.be/Msp_DdLX0do?si=BvkMvs7FoN2XiDKK)
Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington
Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington
Diversity Day, University of Washington School of Law, Seattle, Washington
Confronting Conflict, Seattle University College of Arts and Sciences, Seattle, Washington
Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington
Social Justice Monday, Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington
State Supreme Courts and the Great American Experiment: Honoring the Legacy of Chief Justice John D. Minton Jr., Kentucky Law Journal, J. David Rosenburg College of Law, University of Kentucky
Washington State Democratic Caucus, (virtual event)
LatCrit Inc., Virtual ConferenceI
Seattle University School of Law, Seattle, Washington
Seattle University School of Law, virtual event (https://youtu.be/ph_TB5KMosI?si=SIKR_pjjQwnNbFgR)
City University of New York Law Schol, New York City, New York
College of Education & Department of Comparative Race & Ethnic Studies, Texas Christian University, virtual event
Seattle Journal for Social Justice, Seattle University School of Law, virtual event
With Sabina Vaught and Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
Simpson Center for the Humanities, University of Washington, virtual event
with Sabina Vaught and Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy
The University of Oklahoma Carceral Studies Consortium, Virtual Discussion
AALS Annual Meeting, Section on Civil Rights, San Diego, California
Education for Liberation, Minnesota., Virtual Discussion
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, The Inclusive Excellence, Education and Development Hub, School of Education, Health and Human Behavior, and Department of Anthropology.
Oregon State University College of Liberal Arts, School of Language, Culture, and Society
Deason Criminal Justice Reform Center, SMU Dedman School of Law, Webinar
Law and Society Association, Global Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal
John Mercer Langston Writing Workshop, Emory School of Law
T.J. Reddick Bar Association, Online
St. Thomas University College of Law, Miami Gardens, Florida
St. Thomas University College of Law, Miami Gardens, Florida
American Association of Law Schools Annual Conference, Online
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
St. Thomas University Black Law Students Association, Online
Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Online
Lutie-Langston Winter Workshop, Online
St. Thomas University College of Law, Online
Legal Education, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Denver, CO/Online
Race and the Judiciary, Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Washington D.C.
Legal Futures: Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter, Commission on Minorities in the Judiciary, Arizona Judicial Branch, Phoenix, Arizona
School to Prison Pipeline: Education, Systemic Racism, and Issues of Incarceration for Māori, Aboriginal, and African American Youth, Auckland, New Zealand
Law and Society Association Annual Conference, Toronto, Canada
Center for Mindfulness, Compassion, and Resilience, Phoenix, Arizona
Legal Futures: Why Diversity and Inclusion Matter, Commission on Minorities in the Judiciary, Arizona Judicial Branch, Phoenix, Arizona
Commission on Minorities in the Judiciary, Arizona Judicial Branch, Phoenix, Arizona
Law & Society Association Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico
Indigeneity and Critical Race Research June 22, 2017
Law & Society Association Annual Conference, Mexico City, Mexico
Arizona Grantmakers Forum, Arizona Community Foundation, Phoenix, Arizona
ASU Law Journal Annual Symposium, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Tempe, Arizona
LJSJ Annual Symposium, Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, Tempe, Arizona
Lat Crit 2013, Chicago, Illinois October 5, 2013
LatCrit XVI, San Diego, California October 7, 2011
Arizona
AALS Civil Rights Section
Executive Committee 2021-2024
Chair-Elect 2024-2025
Chair 2025-2026
AALS Critical Theories Section Executive Committee 2024-Present
AALS Law and Humanities Executive Committee 2025-Present
American Studies Association 2023-Present
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association 2021-Present
Law and Society Association 2016-Present
Arizona Black Bar Association 2019-2020
Washington State Minority and Justice Commission April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2029
State of Washington Supreme Court
Law Student Outreach Working Group Jan 2019-August 2020
Arizona Supreme Court Commission on Minorities in the Judiciary, Phoenix, AZ.
Plan annual “Legal Futures” event to encourage youth of color toward careers in law.
Department of Interior, Solicitor’s Office, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Judge Joseph Kreamer, Maricopa County Superior Court, Phoenix, Arizona
SST 498: Justice and Praxis Spring 2018, Spring 2019, Spring 2020
SST 498: Justice and Mindfulness Spring 2020
SST 498: Humanities and Praxis Spring 2020
Center for Indian Education, School of Social Transformation, Arizona State University
Conduct engaged research and teaching, mentor undergraduate researchers, and write articles and book chapters for publication.
2020 Law and Society, Junior Scholars Program participant.
2019 Law and Society, Junior Scholars Program participant.
2015 CALI Award: Scientific Evidence
2014 Ross-Blakley Law Library Award for Exemplary Student Research, First Place
John Schubert Memorial Fellowship
CALI Award: Tribal Law & Government
NNALSA Moot Court Quarterfinalist (with Jonathon Sanchez)
ASU CCI Excellence and Diversity and Inclusion Award (Nominee)
2013 LatCrit Student Scholar
Indian Rights Fellowship
NNALSA Moot Court Semi-Finalist (with Jonathon Sanchez)
2012 ABA Judicial Internship Opportunity Program (JIOP)
AAABA Thomas Tang Law Scholarship
CALI Award: Critical Race Theory
2011 John P. Morris Memorial Scholarship
2010 Doctoral Enrichment Fellowship
2009 Undergraduate Research Scholar Designation
2007 NCORE Student Scholar
2005 Utah Opportunity Scholarship