Leticia Saucedo | William S. Boyd School of Law at UNLV

		Leticia Saucedo
		Professor of Law


		Phone: 702 895-0491 Email: leticia.saucedo@unlv.edu

		Curriculum Vitae (pdf)

	Education: A.B. cum laude, Bryn Mawr College, 1984 J.D. cum laude, Harvard Law School, 1996

	Professor Saucedo earned her J. D. in 1996 from Harvard Law School, where she was managing editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. Following graduation, she first served as briefing attorney to Chief Justice Thomas Phillips of the Texas Supreme Court, then was an associate of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobsen in New York City, where she was the recipient of the Fried Frank MALDEF Fellowship. From 1999 to 2003, she was a staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio,Texas, where she litigated employment and education cases. Professor Saucedo has taught at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas since 2003. She teaches Torts, Immigration Law, and co-directs the Immigration Law Clinic. She has co-developed and taught international and domestic service learning legal courses covering the immigration consequences of crime, and domestic violence in a post-conflict society. Her research interests lie in the intersection between employment and labor law and immigration law. She is co- editing a casebook on Latinos and the law, entitled, The Legal Construction of a Latino Identity. Her articles have appeared in the Notre Dame Law Review, the Ohio State Law Journal, the Immigration and Nationality Law Review, the Buffalo Law Review, the University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform, the Richmond Law Review, and the Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. Professor Saucedo currently holds a position as a research scholar with the Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity at the University of California, Berkeley Law School.

	Areas of Expertise: Clinical Education Immigration Law Labor and Employment Law Torts

	Selected Publications: LAW REVIEW AND OTHER SCHOLARLY ARTICLES A New “U”: Organizing Victims and Protecting Immigrant Workers, 42 RICHMOND L. REV. 891 (2008). SSRN Hein Lexis Westlaw The Illusion of Transformative Conflict Resolution: Mediating Domestic Violence in Nicaragua (co-authored with Raquel Aldana), 55 Buff. L. Rev. 1261 (2008). SSRN Hein Lexis Westlaw Addressing Segregation in the Brown Collar Workplace: Toward a Solution for the Inexorable 100%, 41 Mich. J. Race & L. 447 (2008). SSRN Lexis Westlaw The Employer Preference for the Subservient Worker and the Making of the Brown Collar Workplace, 67 Ohio St. L.J. 961 (2006). SSRN Hein Lexis Westlaw The Browning of the American Workplace: Protecting Workers in Increasingly Latino-ized Occupations, 80 Notre Dame L. Rev. 303 (2004), reprinted in 25 Immigr. & Nat'lity L. Rev. 379 (2004). Hein Lexis Westlaw The Legal Issues Surrounding the TAAS Case, 22 Hisp. J. Behav. Sci. 411 (2000). Perceptions of Obstacles to Immigrant Organizing: A Study of Immigrant Workers in the Las Vegas Construction Industry (work-in-progress). Immigrant Women, Masculinities and the “Brown Collarization” of Blue Collar Jobs: A Case Study of the Las Vegas Residential Construction Trades (work-in-progress). --> More Publications (pdf)

<- Return to Faculty List