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UNLV Boyd School of Law Prof. Sylvia Lazos is an expert in immigration policy and race and the law and can speak about Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's upcoming immigration policy speech.
Making the US legal and political system one that affords equality for everyone, regardless of their race, ethnicity, religion, gender or sexual orientation, is what drives Professor Sylvia R. Lazos to excel as a law professor. A constitutional law and critical race scholar, Professor Lazos has written exhaustively on how constitutional norms can accommodate a new American reality that is increasingly multicultural, multiracial and multiethnic.
Professor Lazos’s current research interests focus on the importance of the judiciary being diverse, the impact of rapid immigration growth on intergroup relations, and how to fashion constitutional interpretive norms to promote better cross-racial understanding. She is currently part of a cross-disciplinary faculty effort at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas to establish a Center for the Research of Race and Social Justice, which would engage in groundbreaking research efforts across-disciplines on wide ranging subjects related to race and ethnicity class and social justice. The aim of the center is to not only promote research that would be relevant to state of Nevada policy makers, but that would also assist local civic groups to better serve their constituencies.
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Related information:UNLV is hosting the third Presidential Debate on Oct. 19.
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