Robert F. Castro, Ph.D. J.D.

Professor of Politics, Administration & Justice

 

Robert F Castro, Ph. D

  Phone: (657) 278 - 5677

Email:  rcastro@fullerton.edu

Office: GH 544 

Office Hours:

Revised office and pre-law advising hours online for 4/8/2024 - 4/12/2024

Monday (4pm-7pm)

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Wed (4pm-7pm)

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CURRICULUM VITAE

 

Degrees

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - Political Science - Ph.D. 2003
  • UCLA Law School - Law - J.D. 2000
  • UC Irvine - Criminology - B.A. 1989

 

Research Areas

  • Immigration Law & Policy
  • Refugee & Human Rights Law
  • Crimmigration, Race & Crime, Justice @ the US-Mexico border
  • Public Interest Litigation & Advocacy.

 

Publications

 
  • Forthcoming Book: SPLINTERED BENEVOLENCE: Enemy Aliens, Operational Enforcement & American State-Building – a narrative on how non-white immigrants became branded as "enemy alien" populations historically and contemporaneously.
  • The Devil in Disguise: Identifying Captive Status in U.S. Administrative Materials. The DuBois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 12:2 (2015) 283-295 (Cambridge University Press) - Co-Authored with Rihao Gao.
  • Emancipating Law & Liberating Lives: Making AB 241 Enforcement More Muscular and Accessible for Domestic Workers.  17 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 91 (Spring 2014) – Co-Authored with Max Dery.
  • Alien Bodies/Legal Texts: A Forensic & Ethnographic Post-Mortem on Federal Emancipation Dockets (1848-1868) – 24 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 39 (2014).