California Western Professor to Address "Immigration and the Challenge to Labor Unions" at Princeton University Conference
Program in Law and Public Affairs partners with the UC San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies to bring together legal, immigration, race, and employment scholars

SAN DIEGO, February 26, 2010 - On February 27, Professor Ruben J. Garcia will participate on a panel discussion at Princeton University, entitled "Immigration and the Challenge to Labor Unions." The discussion is part of Race, Immigration, and the Law of the Workplace: 21^st Century Challenges - A Public Conference, a two-day conference hosted by Princeton University’s Program in Law and Public Affairs and is co-sponsored by the University of California, San Diego's Center for Comparative Immigration Studies.

Race, Immigration, and the Law of the Workplace
The conference was designed as a forum for scholars interested in the connections between law, immigration, race, and the workplace to come together and explore where these fields intersect. While there are notable relationships between these fields, rarely do practitioners have the opportunity to directly investigate their overlap in a collaborative setting such as this.

Professor Ruben J.  Garcia
Garcia teaches courses on professional responsibility, employment discrimination, employment law, labor law, and NAFTA and labor at California Western. His research program focuses on labor and employment law and their intersection with race, gender, immigration, and globalization. He is currently writing a book for New York University Press, entitled Marginal Workers: How Legal Fault Lines Divide Workers and Leave Them without Protection.

He has taught at California Western since 2003 and has held visiting appointments at the University of California, Davis School of Law and UC San Diego. In 2009, Garcia taught justice, a course in constitutional law, and American democracy, in UC San Diego's Dimensions of Culture Program. He currently serves on the Executive Advisory Board of the UC San Diego Center for Research on Gender in the Professions.