Jeremiah Augustus Chin

I teach Constitutional Law, Race and the Law, Federal Indian Law, and Civil Procedure.   My research emphasizes the connections between law and social science through Critical Race Theory, examining uses of social science data in Civil Rights and Federal Indian Law. My recent publications focus on the intersections of race, law, and indigeneity; analyzing the school-prison pipeline, Cherokee Freedmen, and issues of Blackness, American Indians, and Citizenship. 

I received my J.D. from the Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law at Arizona State University, where I was Editor-in-Chief of the Law Journal for Social Justice, graduating with the Pro Bono Service Distinction. I also received my Ph.D. in Justice Studies from Arizona State University. My dissertation, Marginalized Significance: Race, Science, and the Supreme Court analyzes the Supreme Court’s use of social science data in affirmative action and fair housing. After graduating, I served as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Center for Indian Education at Arizona State University. There, I co-founded the Critical Legal Preparation Program, dedicating to assisting underrepresented students succeed in law school through test-preparation, critical theory, and mindfulness. I taught undergraduate courses on Organized Crime, Introduction to Justice Studies, and Power and the Law.

Recently, I finished a book with Dr. Sabina Vaught and Dr. Bryan McKinley Jones Brayboy called "The School-Prison Trust" which discusses the social and historical locations of schools and prisons in relationship to colonization for Black and Native youth in the United States.   I also completed the article "Antimatters: The Curious Case of Confederate Monuments" applying physics as a metaphor for the status of confederate monuments--as statutes they are "matter" as government speech of the cities and localities in which they sit, yet the way states like Alabama have exempted Confederate monuments for historical preservation makes them government speech that municipalities are compelled to maintain, becoming "antimatter." 

Currently, my research focuses on the Constitutional Rights of Children, specifically the rights of marginalized youth under the First Amendment.