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Law Professor and Accidental Historian: The Scholarship of Michael A. Olivas
Faculty Books
  • Ediberto Román, Florida International University College of Law
Excerpt

Law Professor and Accidental Historian is a timely and important reader addressing many of the most hotly debated domestic policy issues of our times—immigration policy, education law, and diversity. Specifically, this book examines the works of one of the country's leading scholars—Professor Michael A. Olivas. Many of the academy's most respected immigration, civil rights, legal history, and education law scholars agreed to partake in this important venture, and have contributed provocative and exquisite chapters covering these cutting-edge issues. Each chapter interestingly demonstrates that Olivas's works are not only thoughtful, brilliantly written, and thoroughly researched, but almost every Olivas article examined has an uncanny ability to predict issues that policy-makers failed to consider. Indeed, in several examples, the book highlights ongoing societal struggles on issues Professor Olivas had warned of long before they came into being. Perhaps with this book, our nation's policy-makers will more readily read and listen closely to Olivas's sagacious advice and prophetic predictions.

ISBN
9781611636864
Publication Date
1-1-2017
Publisher
Carolina Academic Press
Keywords
  • Education Law,
  • Mexican and Latin American Law,
  • Refugee/Immigration/Border Issues Law
Citation Information

LAW PROFESSOR AND ACCIDENTAL HISTORIAN: The Scholarship of Michael Olivas, (Ediberto Román, ed., Carolina Academic Press, 2017).