Meet the Faculty

Full-Time Faculty

Stewart Chang

Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

B.A., University of California, Los Angeles
M.A., Stanford University
J.D., Georgetown University Law Center
Ph.D., University of California, Irvine

Contact Information

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Tel. 714.444.4141 ext. 211
Fax. 714.444.1854
Building Two, Room 211

Courses Offered

Contracts I, Immigration Law

Professor Chang joins the Whittier Law School faculty in 2011 as a Visiting Assistant Professor after ten years of practice as a Staff Attorney at the Asian Pacific American Legal Center, a member of the Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, where he specialized in domestic violence, immigration, and family law. He teaches Contracts and Immigration Law.

Professor Chang’s scholarship applies Critical Race Studies analyses to immigration, family, and Constitutional law to argue that contemporary Asian American identity has coalesced around imagined legal idealizations of citizenship, sexuality, and family.

Articles and Book Contributions:

  • Sex, Rice, and Videotape: Popular Media, Transnational Asian/American Masculinity, and a Crisis of Privacy Law in the Edison Chen Sex Scandal. Amerasia Journal, Summer 2011.
  • Domestic Violence. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Richard Schaefer, ed. SAGE Publications: 2008.
  • Sexual Harassment. Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Society. Richard Schaefer, ed. SAGE Publications: 2008.

Works in Progress:

  • ‘Me Love You Long Time’: Legal Fictions of Citizenship and Family in Asian America
  • Remembering a ‘Page’ from History: A Critical Race Studies Analysis of the William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008
  • “Where Is the ‘Loving?’: Intersections of Reproductive Choice in Asia(n)America.” 4th Annual Critical Race Symposium, “Intersectionality: Challenging Theory, Reframing Politics, Transforming Movements.” 2010. University of California, Los Angeles Law School.
  • “Dispelling the Model Minority Myth: Access to Courts for Indigent Monolingual Asian American Communities.” Judicial Council of California, Statewide Conference on Race and Ethnic Bias in the California Courts. 2006. San Diego, California.
  • “Language Access Issues for Asian Pacific Islander Litigants.” California Court Interpreters Association Annual Conference. 2006. Newport Beach, California.
  • “Court User Roundtable.” Judicial Council of California, Statewide Conference on Race and Ethnic Bias in the California Courts. 2005. Los Angeles, California.
  • “Developing Immigration Remedies for Victims of Trafficking and Other Violent Crimes in the United States.” University of Hawai’i Globalization Research Center Conference, “The Human Rights Challenge of Globalization in Asia-Pacific-US: The Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.” 2002. University of Hawai’i, Manoa.