| Education:
J.D., University of Southern California
B.A., Swarthmore College
A native of the Philippines, Professor Romero
teaches and writes in the area of immigrant and minority
rights. Professor Romero joined the faculty in 1995 after
working in private practice and as a law clerk to
a federal judge in California. An elected member of
the American Law Institute (ALI), Professor Romero is co-editor
of the anthology, Immigration
and the Constitution, and author of Alienated:
Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in
America. In addition to his course in Immigration
Law, Professor Romero teaches Constitutional
Law I and II. Professor Romero has
served as president of both the South
Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the ACLU and the NAACP
of the Greater Carlisle Area. He was also a visiting professor of law at Howard and at Rutgers-Camden. Most recently, Professor Romero completed a two-year stint as the Associate Dean
for Academic Affairs in University Park during academic years 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Contact Information:
E-mail:
vcr1@psu.edu
Phone: (814) 865-8989
Principal Office: University Park
Publications
List
Papers
available via SSRN
Selected Publications:
| Books and Book Chapters |
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“Loving Across the Miles: Binational Same-Sex Marriages and the Supreme Court,” in Loving in a ‘Post-Racial’ World: Rethinking Race, Sex and Marriage (K. Maillard & R. Villazor, eds., Cambridge University Press, forthcoming 2010).
Everyday Law for Immigrants, Paradigm Publishers, 2009.
“Who Should Manage Immigration — Congress or the States?: An Introduction to Constitutional Immigration Law,” in Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship (R. Buff, ed., NYU Press, 2008).
Alienated: Immigrant Rights, the Constitution, and Equality in America (NYU Press, 2005).
Immigration and the Constitution, 3 volumes (co-edited with G. Chin & M. Scaperlanda, Routledge, 2001).
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| Articles and Essays |
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“U.S. Immigration Policy: Contract or Human Rights Law” 32 Nova Law Review 309 (2008) (symposium).
“Crossing Borders: Loving v. Virginia as a Story of Migration,” 51 Howard Law Journal 53 (2007) (symposium).
“An ‘Other’ Christian Perspective on Lawrence v. Texas,” 45 Journal of Catholic Legal Studies 115 (2006).
“Are Filipinas Asians or Latinas?: Reclaiming the Anti-Subordination Objective of Equal Protection After Grutter and Gratz,” 7 Univ. of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law 765 (2005) (symposium).
"The Child Citizenship Act and the Family Reunification Act: Valuing the Citizen Child as Well as the Citizen Parent," 55 Florida Law Review 489 (2003) (symposium).
"Postsecondary School Education Benefits for Undocumented Immigrants: Promises and Pitfalls," 27 North Carolina Journal of International Law and Commercial Regulation 393 (2002) (symposium).
"Restricting the Hate Speech of ‘Public Figures': Lessons in Censorship from Defamation Law," 33 Columbia Human Rights Law Review 1 (2001).
"Racial Profiling: On ‘Driving While Mexican' and Affirmative Action," 6 Univ. of Michigan Journal of Race & Law 195 (2000) (symposium).
"The Domestic Fourth Amendment Rights of Undocumented Immigrants: On Guitterez and the Tort Law — Immigration Law Parallel," 35 Harvard Civil Rights — Civil Liberties Law Review 57 (2000).
"Equal Protection Held Hostage: Ransoming the Constitutionality of the Hostage Taking Act," 91 Northwestern Univ. Law Review 573 (1997).
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