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Guadalupe T. LunaGuadalupe T. Luna
Professor of Law

B.A., University of Minnesota
J.D., University of Minnesota

 

 

Email: gluna@niu.edu
Phone: (815) 753-0240
Room: 198D

Biography

Guadalupe Luna's primary areas of teaching are Property Law, Agricultural Law, and Jurisprudence. Before joining the faculty at Northern Illinois University, she practiced in the litigation area for four years in San Antonio, Texas, and served as a law clerk for the Honorable Theodore McMillian, United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. While in law school, she was editor-in-chief on the Law and Inequality Journal.

Curriculum Vitae

Books and Chapters

  • Global Migrants in the Manner of Local Shelter: Anti-Immigrant Backlash Hits Home (book chapter with Professor Fran Ansley) (forthcoming 2009).
  • The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Dred Scott v. Sandford: Aren’t They All Illegal Anyway?, in Race In 21st Century America (Curtis Stokes, Theresa Melendez & Genice Rhodes-Reed eds., 2001).

Articles

  • Chasing Rural Democracy and “Food Glorious Food”: Farmers of Color and Anti-Trust Legislation, 28 UCLA Chicana/o-Latina/o L. Rev. (forthcoming 2009).
  • Book Review, Yifat Holzman-Gazit, Land Expropriation In Israel: Law, Culture and Society (forthcoming 2009). 
  • "Women in Blue Jeans:” Connecting the Past with Geographic Transformations In the Present, 23 Wis. J.L. Gender & Soc'y 313 (2008). 
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  • Farmer Operations of Color and Food Based Coalitions, 20 St. Thomas L. Rev. 580 (2008). 
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  • Cultural, Ethnic, and Religious Fragmentation, 20 St. Thomas L. Rev. 622 (2008). 
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  • Chasing Treaty Promises, 18 Berkeley La Raza L.J. 105 (2007). 
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  • Immigrants, Cops and Slumlords in the Midwest,S. Ill. U. L.J. (2005).
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  • Land, Labor and Reparations, 52 Clev. St. L. Rev. 265 (2005).
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  • Kulturkampf Revelations, Racial Identities and Colonizing Structures, 35 Seton Hall L. Rev. 1191 (2005).
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  • Legal Realism and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Fractionalized Legal Template, 2005 Wis. L. Rev. 519 (2005).
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  • The New Deal and Food Insecurity in the "Midst of Plenty,"Drake J. Agric. L. 213 (2004).
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  • LatCrit VI, America Latina and Jurisprudential Associations, 54 Rutgers L. Rev. 803 (2002).
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  • ”La Causa Chicana” and Communicative Praxis, 78 Denv. U. L. Rev. 553 (2001).
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  • Chicanas/os, “Liberty” and Roger B. Taney, 12 U. Fla. J.L. & Pub. Pol'y 33 (2000).
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  • Gold, Souls, and Wandering Clerics: California Missions, Native Californians, and LatCrit Theory, 33 U.C. Davis L. Rev. 921 (2000).
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  • ”This Land Belongs To Me:” Chicanas, Land Grant Adjudication, and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, 3 Harv. Latino L. Rev. 115 (2000).
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  • On the Complexities of Race: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Dred Scott v. Sandford, 53 U. Miami L. Rev. 691 (1999).
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  • Chicana/Chicano Land Tenure in the Agrarian Domain: On the Edge of a “Naked Knife,” 4 Mich. J. Race & L. 39 (1998).
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  • An Infinite Distance?: Exceptionalism and Agricultural Labor, 1 U. Pa. J. Lab. & Emp. L. 487 (1998).
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  • ”Zoo Island:” LatCrit Theory, "Don Pepe" and Senora Peralta, 19 Chicano-Latino L. Rev. 339 (1998).
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  • En El Nombre De Dios Todo-Poderoso: The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo and Narrativos Legales, 5 Sw. J. L. & Trade Am. 45 (1998).
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  • On Holding the Line and Retrogressive Zeitgeist: A Tribute to Judge Theodore McMillian, 52 Wash. U. J. Urb. & Contemp. L. 59 (1997).
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  • The Legal Context of Agricultural Workers, Working Paper 37, Julian Samora Research Ctr., Mich. St. U.  (1997).
  • ”Agricultural Underdogs” and International Agreements: The Legal Context of Agricultural Workers Within the Rural Economy, 26 N.M. L. Rev. 9 (1996).
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  • Foreword: Changing Structures and Expectations in Agriculture, 14 N. Ill. U. L. Rev. 609 (1994).
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  • Inter-State Accountability for Violations of Human Rights, 16 Houst. J. Int'l L. 403 (1993).
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Areas of Expertise:

Agricultural Law, Immigration Law, Landlord-Tenant Law, Property, Voting Rights