Biography

Name: Raquel Aldana

Professional Title : Professor of Law

Affiliation : University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law

Country : United States

Title of Presentation : Transforming Students, Transforming Selves: Teaching and Learning About Social Change in Context: Three Models of International and Comparative Clinical Cooperation

Short Bio : Professor Aldana is the Director of the Pacific McGeorge Inter-American Program, a pedagogically innovative program educating bilingual and bicultural lawyers who wish to pursue a transnational career with a focus on U.S-Latin America relations. Professor Aldana has written extensively on immigration issues and on the rights of victims of state-sponsored crimes and domestic violence in the Americas. She teaches Immigration, Criminal, Criminal Procedure, International Labor, and comparative Law.