Crime rates among undocumented immigrants are just a fraction of those of their U.S.-born neighbors, according to a first-of-its-kind analysis of Texas arrest and conviction records by Sociology/CLS Prof. Michael Light. Previous studies, including others …
Month: December 2020
Benjamin Márquez to Publish the First Book on MALDEF
Can committed professional activists, paid by granting agencies to work through the legal system, change the world? That’s the question former CLS director Benjamin Márquez asks in The Politics of Patronage: Lawyers, Philanthropy, and the …
CLS Alum Gilberto Osuna-León Helps Madison Respond to COVID-19
A recent news report on the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Madison’s Latinx community highlights the work of CLS Alum and Jesus Salas Scholarship recipient Gilberto Osuna León (’20). As a bilingual COVID-19 specialist …