curriculum vitae
John Hayakawa TÖrÖk
1909 San Pablo Avenue, Unit E
Oakland, CA94612
(510) 529-5661
DEGREES:U.C. Berkeley, Master of Arts, Ethnic Studies, 2006
Ph.D. Candidate (expected 2008)
Dissertation: ‘Chinese Investigations’: Immigration Policy Enforcement in Cold War New YorkChinatown, 1946-65”
Honors: College of Letters & Sciences, Dr. and Mrs. David N.K Wang Fellow
Graduate Division: Dean’s Normative Time Fellowship, 2006; Mentored Research Award, 2005-2006; Graduate Opportunity Fellowship, 2004
Advisors: Professors L. Ling-chi Wang, Patricia Hilden, and Elaine Kim Qualifying Examination Topics: Chinese American History, Critical Race Theory, Ideology in U.S. Immigration Policy and Law Enforcement
New YorkUniversitySchool of Law, LL.M. 1995
CityUniversity of New YorkSchool of Law, J.D. 1991
University of California at Santa Cruz, B.A. Psychology, 1987
Honors: MerrillCollege Service Award
Psychology Thesis Honors: “Japanese American Identity in Socio-Historical and Pycho-Cultural Perspective”
CranleighSchool, Cranleigh, Surrey, United Kingdom, 1982
General Certificate of Education, Advanced Level Examinations: English Literature, German Language and Literature, and History
HONORS: California Japanese American Alumni Association Scholarship, 2006
Japanese American Citizens League Minoru Yasui Memorial Scholarship, 2001 Japanese American Citizens League Sho Sato Memorial Scholarship, 2000
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Presidential Scholarship, 1998
National Asian Pacific American Bar Association Scholarship, 1996
Okura Mental Health Leadership Foundation Washington Fellowship, 1996
Japanese American Citizens League Washington Leadership Seminar, 1994
Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, University of Colorado at Boulder
Center for Studies of Ethnicity and Race in America, 1992 – 1993
Japanese American Citizens LeagueN.Y. Chapter Merit Scholarship, 1990
Davis-Putter Scholarship, 1989, 1990
OTHER EDUCATION: ColumbiaLawSchool, J.S.D. Candidate, 1996-2003 Honors: Morris Fellowship, 1996-1997
PUBLICATIONS:Asian American Jurisprudence: On Curriculum 2005 MichiganStateUniversity Law Review 635
‘Law as Self-Defense’:Interview on Teaching and Asian American Jurisprudence with Jerry Kang,Journal of Asian American Studies7:2 (2004)
Freedom Now! Race-Consciousness and the Work of Decolonization Today,48 Howard Law Journal 351 (2004)
The Story of “Towards Asian American Jurisprudence” and its Implications for Latinas/os in American Law Schools
13 Berkeley La Raza Law Journal 271 (2002)
Finding the Me in LatCrit Theory: Thoughts on Language Acquisition and Loss 53 Miami Law Review 1019 (1999)
Reconstruction and Racial Nativism: Chinese Immigrants and the Debates on the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments and Civil Rights Laws
3 Asian Law Journal 55 (1996)
Interest-Convergence and the Liberalization of Discriminatory Immigration and Naturalization Laws Affecting Asians, 1943-1965
Chinese America: History and Perspectives 1 (1995)
IMPART: Journal of OPENMIND - The Association for the Achievement of Cultural Diversity in Higher Education, Inaugural Issue, Editor (1993)
The Quarry: An Anthology of Writings by Asian American Students University of California, Santa Cruz,Asian American Student Alliance Co-Editor (1987)
EMPLOYMENT:Santa ClaraUniversity, Ethnic Studies Dept., Santa Clara, CA. Apr. – June 2007
LecturerSpring Quarter 2007.Teach upper-division comparative E.S. course. E.S. 190: Special Topics: Race, Racisms and American Law (canceled).
United States Magistrate Judge Leonard Bernikow, S.D.N.Y. Feb. - Nov. 1998Part-Time Law Clerk Research, and draft, reports and recommendations on dismissal and summary judgment motions.
Pro Se Office, Southern District of New York, Jan. 1997 - Jan. 1998
Part-Time Staff Attorney Screen pro se submissions, draft orders, judgments and memoranda in prisoner, civil rights, and poverty law cases.
United States Magistrate Judge Ronald L. Ellis, S.D.N.Y. Aug. 1994 - Sept. 1996
Law Clerk Research civil procedure and substantive issues for pre-trial and settlement; draft reports and recommendations, jury instructions, memoranda, opinions and orders; manage pro se docket; supervise law students.
Professor Derrick Bell, N.Y.U.School of Law,Sept. 1991 - Jan. 1992
Research Assistant for Race, Racism and American Law (3d ed. 1992) and Faces at the Bottom of the Well: The Permanence of Racism (1992).
Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, June - Aug. 1994; Feb. - Sept. 1992
Acting Development Director Generate funding proposals, reports and budgets; plan fundraising and manage a foundation’s site visit.
Part-Time Office Manager & Public Policy Director Manage office and public policy/coalition work; supervise interns and volunteers; develop educational materials and make educational presentations; advocate for individual clients; write and present legislative testimonies.
Reinhardt & Schachter, P.C. Newark, N.J. Summer 1990 Law Clerk. Draft legal memoranda on evidentiary and substantive issues in employment discrimination cases.
Hudson County Department of Planning and Economic Development, Jersey City, N.J. Summer 1989. Law Intern Draft county land subdivision and site plan review resolution and planning board bylaws.
SERVICE AND TEACHING AT U.C. BERKELEY
FacultyCommittee on Academic Freedom, Academic Senate, Berkeley Division, Graduate Student Representative, 2005-06
Division of Equity and Inclusion, Graduate Student Researcher, U.C. Berkeley Draft Strategic Plan for Equity, Diversity and Inclusion, Summer 2008
McNair Scholars Program, Graduate Student Tutor, Spring-Summer 2008
The Globalization of Rights, Values and Laws in the 21st Century
Interdisciplinary Studies Field 100E, Graduate Student Instructor for ISF Lecturer Urs Cipolat, Upper Division Undergraduate Class, Fall 2007
Race, Racisms, and U.S. Law, Ethnic Studies 144-AC
Assistant Instructor, Upper Division Undergraduate Class, Summer 2007
The United States and America: Introduction to American Studies, A.S. 10 Graduate Student Instructor for Professor Richard Cándida Smith
Lower Division Undergraduate Class, Spring 2007
Racism and American Law, Ethnic Studies 144-AC
Instructor, Upper Division Undergraduate Class, Summer 2005
Law and the Asian American Community, Asian American Studies 141
Graduate Student Instructor for Lecturer Thomas Fleming
Upper Division Undergraduate Class, Fall 2005
Racism and Higher Education in the United States, Ethnic Studies 20-AC
Graduate Student Instructor for Associate Professor L. Ling-chi Wang
Lower Division Undergraduate Class, Fall 2004
Principles of Sociology for Non-Majors, Sociology 3-AC Reader for Lecturer Brian Powers Lower Division Undergraduate Class, Spring 2008
United States Intellectual History, History C132B-AC Reader for Professor Richard Cándida Smith Upper Division Undergraduate Class, Fall 2007
United States Immigration History, History 137-AC
Reader for Visiting Assistant Professor S. Deborah Kang
Upper Division Undergraduate Class, Fall 2007
ACADEMIC CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS:
The Investigation and Prosecution of Chinese Immigration Broker Arthur Lem Work-in-Progress Session, 13th Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty William Mitchell College of Law, Saint Paul, MN. Apr. 28, 2007
The Global in the Translocal: American Chinatown Politics as Borderland, Panelist, Asian American International Perspectives Panel, American Studies Association ConferenceOakland, CA.Oct. 13, 2006.
Arthur Lem’s Case – A New York “Chinese Fraud” Immigration Prosecution,Inter/NationalismsPanel Organizer, Presenter, NationalAssociation of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco, CA. Mar. 30, 2006
Nationalism and the Cold War: The Chinese American Experience Panel -Ideological Containment in Cold War America: The China Daily News CasePanel Organizer and Presenter, Chinese Historians in the U.S. Panel, American Historical AssociationPhiladelphia, PA.Jan. 7, 2006
Assimilation and Repression in Cold War America Panel, Ideological Prosecution: The China Daily News Case, Panel Organizer and Presenter, Chinese Historical Society of America San Francisco, CA.Oct. 9, 2005
Chinese Immigration Law Enforcement Panel:The Arthur Lem Case: A New York Chinese Immigration Fraud Prosecution, Panel Organizer and Presenter, Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, CA.Oct. 8, 2005
Toward the History and Theory of Asian American Jurisprudence, Panelist, Ethnic Studies Graduate Student Conference,University of California, Berkeley, CA. Mar. 4, 2005
Towards a History and Theory of Asian American Jurisprudence, Panelist, Genealogies of Legal Doctrine Panel, First National Asian Americans and the Law Conference, University of Illinois College of Law, Urbana-Champaign, IL. Feb. 4, 2005
Asian American Law Teacher Interviewing Project Proposal,Presenter,11th Annual Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, Michigan State UniversityCollege of Law, East Lansing, MI. Sept. 24, 2004
Ideological Deportation: The Case of Kwong Hai Chew, Presenter, Gotham Center Seminar on Post-War New York City History, City University of New York Graduate Center,
New York, N.Y.Oct. 22, 2003
Chinese Immigration Fraud Prosecutions in 1950s New York, Chinese New York Panel Organizer, Panelist, Gotham Center Conference on New York City History, New York, N.Y. Oct. 7, 2001
Chinese Immigration Fraud Prosecutions in 1950s New York, Presenter, Second Asian Pacific American Legal Scholarship Workshop, Point Reyes, CA. Aug. 28, 2001
Asian Pacific American Jurisprudence, Presenter, Fifth Annual Northeast People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference, City University of New York School of Law, Flushing, N.Y. Mar. 30, 2001
Exclusion’s End: The Chinese Confession Program and New York Chinatown,Presenter,Columbia University Seminar in Oral History, Professor Ronald J. Grele, Director, Columbia Oral History Research Office, New York, N.Y.Feb. 14, 2001
Asian American Jurisprudence at Columbia Law School, Presenter, First Asian Pacific American Legal Scholarship Workshop, Point Reyes, CA. July 24, 1999
Planning and Teaching an Asian Americans and the Law Class, Panelist, Fifth Annual Conference of Asian American Law Faculty, BostonCollegeLawSchool, Newton,MA.Oct. 2, 1998
The Chinese Confession Program and New York Chinatown, Critical Legal Histories Panel, Organizer and Presenter, Yale Law School Critical Race Theory Conference, New Haven, CT. Nov. 14, 1997
On the Intersections of Violence, Racial Nativism, Law and White Supremacy: An Asian American Perspective, Presenter, Sixth Annual Critical Race Theory Workshop, University of Miami Law School, Coral Gables, FL. June 23, 1994
Interest Convergence and the Liberalization of Immigration and Naturalization Laws Affecting Asians, Presenter, The Repeal and Its Legacy: Conference on the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Repeal of the Chinese Exclusion Acts, Chinese Historical Society of America, San Francisco, CA.Nov. 13, 1993
Towards a Liberatory Approach to the Legal History of Asian America, Presenter, Fifth Annual Critical Race Theory Workshop, Mills College, Oakland, CA. June 29, 1993
COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS:
A Tale of Three Criminals, Cold War Ideological and Immigration Law Enforcement in New York’s Chinatown, Ethnic Studies Graduate Student Brown Bag Lecture Series, Inaugural Speaker
U.C. Berkeley Department of Ethnic Studies, Berkeley, CA. Oct. 15, 2007
McCarthyism, Chinese America, and the China Daily News Case, Panelist, Film Screening of
The Chinatown Files (Amy Chen, Dir., 2001) Chinese Historical Society of America & American Friends Service Committee, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Mar. 3, 2005
Legal/Historical Significance of the Chinese Confession Program, Panelist, Film Screening of The Chinatown Files (Amy Chen, Dir., 2001) Museum of the Chinese in the Americas, New York, N.Y. Oct. 17, 2000
Activism in the Academy: Critical Race Theory and Community, Panel Organizer and Presenter, Fifteenth Anniversary NAPALSA Conference, New York University Law School, New York, N.Y. Oct. 21, 1995
Proposition 187 and Other Anti-Immigrant Legislation, Panelist, APALSA, Columbia University Law School, New York, N.Y. Apr. 10, 1995
Is There Life After Graduation?Panelist, APALSA, CityUniversity of New YorkSchool of Law,
New York, N.Y.Apr. 6, 1995
The Implications of the End of the Cold War for Immigration Restriction of Asians, Speaker, Asian Cultural Center Second Conference of Scholars on Asians in America, University of Denver, Denver, CO. April 3, 1993
Addressing DiversityWorkshop, Speaker, National Association for Public Interest Law Conference, Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, D.C.Oct. 20, 1990
NON-PROFIT BOARD SERVICE:
Asian Pacific Islander Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Inc., N.Y., Apr. 1997 – June 2007
NYU Black Latino APA Law Alumni Association, Apr. 1998 – Apr. 2000
Japanese American Citizens League, N.Y. chapter, Sept. 1993 – Mar. 1996
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
American Studies Association, Member, 2007 topresent
Association of Asian American Studies, Member, 2006 to present
Oral History Association, Member, 2006 to present
American Historical Association, Member, 2004 to present
Chinese Historians in the United States, Member, 2004 to present
American Society for Legal History, Member, 1998-2007
Organization of American Historians, Member, 2004-2005
Conference of Asian Pacific American Law Faculty, Inc. Incorporating Director, 2002-03 Board of Directors, Feb. – Sept. 2003 Steering Committee, Oct. 2003 to present
National Lawyers Guild, New York Chapter, Member, 1989-2003
Asian American Bar Association of New York Founding Member, 1988-89 Member, 1989-2003
LANGUAGES:Hungarian (fluent); Some German and French
BAR ADMISSION:New York, 1992; S.D.N.Y. & E.D.N.Y., 1996
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