Professor

Jennifer

Marie

Chacón

Jennifer M. Chacón is Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.  She was previously Professor of Law at UC Berkeley School of Law, UCLA School of Law, and before that, Chancellor’s Professor of Law and Senior Associate Dean for Administration at UC Irvine School of Law.  She started her teaching career at UC Davis School of Law.

Chacón’s research focuses in the fields of immigration law, constitutional law, and criminal law and procedure. Her research has been funded by grants from the National Science Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. She is a co-author of the 2024 book Legal Phantoms (Stanford University Press), and of a 2017 casebook Immigration Law and Social Justice (Aspen Press), now in its second edition, and of numerous articles, essays and book chapters on citizenship, immigration, border control and human trafficking.