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Laura E. Gomez Law and American studies professor at the University of New Mexico. His education A.B. Social Science at Harvard University (where he was a Harry Truman Scholar), MA And Ph.D. Stanford (where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship) University and a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Law at Stanford University In sociology. After law school, Gomez Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals for the Honorable Dorothy W. Nelson, Secretary. Before going to Stanford, he was a legislative assistant to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman worked as.

Gomez professor of constitutional law, civil litigation, criminal law, law and society, and teaches in the areas of race and law. The Art and Science, American Studies Department is in the fourth with a date with a joint appointment in the UNM College of Law professor. He regularly Race and Law in American History "classes associated with a variety of departments, law students and teaches undergraduate and graduate students. Before joining the UNM faculty in 2005, 12-year-old Gomez is professor of law at UCLA (where he was appointed at the Institute of Sociology) as spent. He is the founder and first (with Jerry Kang) Raza Studies program co-director of UCLA, and an American law school's first race in the justice studies program on the critics.

Professor Gomez numerous presentations and published numerous articles (in review of law and society, including a 2000 article), book chapters and review comments, as well as two books. Scholarship, law, politics and historical and contemporary contexts, focuses on the intersection of social stratification. Wrong in mothers: Legislators, prosecutors, prenatal exposure to drugs and Politics (1997) "Crack Baby" / "crack mother" social problems in the media and public policy documents the career I stand at the crossroads of abortion debate , drugs, and the criminalization and medicalization on the war and in 1980 the jurisdiction of the speech was played. In his 2007 book, Manifest Destiny: Mexican American Race (published in paperback in September 2008) the creation, Gomez investigated and the new race and restructuring, in turn, across racial and ethnic ideologies of the twentieth century, the American sociologist Nancy legislation Lopez (Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy at the University of New Mexico Press, funded by the Foundation Center) with a new project s in the order as "race" for the scientific study of the racial order, explores the contemporary legacy co-opt color-blind ideology that race is a social construction that is now promoted and run by scientists and politicians have the right to apply the means?

Professor Gomez many Law and Society Association (where he served as board treasurer of Directors) national scientific organizations including the American Association of Sociology, Section Sociology of Law, Law School, the American Association operating in minority areas, workshops, Critical Race Theory and LatCrit. Gomez, an associate editor of Review of Law and Society, which will act as co-editor of the law, race, and in 2009 will publish a special issue of the Journal of inequality. Gomez magazines in other laws, gender studies, Chicano / a studies, legal history and sociology and is a reviewer for the characters and the legal, political and social studies, served on the editorial. Gomez Santa (where the lawyer was first elected in 2004) Fe and the Stanford Humanities Center, where in 1996-97 Rockefeller Humanities Law instead of the last member of the prestigious School of American Research is a residential scholarship.