Elvia R. Arriola

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About

Elvia R. Arriola is a graduate of UC Berkeley Boalt Hall School of Law and has a post-grad master's from New York University in American history with a concentration on the history of women and racial minorities. She began her legal career as an ACLU attorney and was an assistant attorney general in the New York State Civil Rights Bureau. Her scholarship was inspired by work as a litigator on federal sex discrimination cases and by volunteer public education on how the public's fear of AIDS resulted in discrimination against GLBTs and people of color. Her first writings explored queer legal theory and intersectional feminist critical studies. Arriola's law professor career began at UT Austin, and she joined NIU COL in 2001. She is professor emerita since 2016. Twenty years ago, Arriola co-founded Women on the Border, which is committed to social justice education about working women in the global economy and, since 2017, human rights concerns surrounding the federal government's anti-immigrant/asylum seeker policies and practices.

Education

• B.A., California State University, Los Angeles
• J.D., University of California, Berkeley
• M.A., New York University

Areas of Expertise

• Feminist Legal Theory
• LGBT Studies
• Latina Critical Legal Theory
• Women and Globalization

Publications

Books and Chapters

• Immigration Policy and Border Control Post 9-11 (book chapter) in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinos and Latinas in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements, Suzanne Oboler and Deena J. González, eds. (2015)
• No Hay Mal Que Por Bien No Venga: A Journey to Healing by a Latina Law Professor, in Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs, Yolanda Flores Niemann, Carmen G. González, and Angela P. Harris, eds., Presumed Incompetent: Intersections of Race and Class for Women in Academia (Utah Univ. Press, 2012)
• Gendered Inequality: Lesbians, Gays and Feminist Legal Theory (1994), in Delgado and Stefancic, Eds., Critical Race Theory, 3rd Ed. (2012)
• Of Woman Born: Courage and Strength to Survive in the Maquiladoras of Reynosa and Rio Bravo (2000), Tamaulipas, in Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic, Critical Race Theory, 3rd Ed. (2012)
• Accountability for Murder in the Maquiladoras, in Making a Killing; Femicide, Free Trade and La Frontera, Alicia Gaspar de Alba (Univ. of Texas Press, 2010)
• La Responsibilidad Por Los Asesinatos en las Maquiladoras, in C. Gonzalez, D. Bonilla-Maldonado, C. Crawford, ed., El Liberalismo Neoclasico, El Libre Comercio y Sus Criticos (2010)
• Law and the Gendered Politics of Identity: Who Owns the Label "Lesbian"?, reprinted in Katherine Bartlett & Angela Harris, Gender and Law: Theory, Doctrine, Commentary (2010)
• LatCrit Theory, Int'l Human Rights, Popular Culture and the Faces of Despair in INS Raids, reprinted in The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998) and in A Reader on Race, Civil Rights and American Law: A Multiracial Approach (2001)
• Gendered Inequality: Lesbians, Gays, and Feminist Legal Theory, reprinted in Critical Race Theory: The Cutting Edge (2000) and in The Latino Condition: A Critical Reader (1998)
• What's the Big Deal?: Women in the New York City Construction Industry and Sexual Harassment Law, reprinted in Applications of Feminist Legal Theory to Women's Lives: Sex, Work and Reproduction (1996) and in Law and Violence Against Women: Cases and Materials on Systems of Oppression (1994)
• Feminism and Free Expression: Silence and Voice, in Freeing the First Amendment: Critical Perspectives on Freedom of Expression (1995)
• Sexual Identity and the Constitution: Homosexual Persons as a Discrete and Insular Minority, reprinted in Special Issue: The Best of the Women's Rights Law Reporter Rutgers Women's Rights Law Review (1992) and in Studies in Homosexuality (1991)

Articles

• Amor y Esperanza, A Latina Lesbian Becomes a Law Professor, 66 J. Legal Educ. 484 (2017)
• Migrants Resist Systemic Discrimination and Dehumanization in Private, For-Profit Detention Centers, 15 Santa Clara J. Int'l L. 1 (2017) (with Virginia M. Raymond)
• Queer, Undocumented and Sitting in an Immigration Detention Center: A Post-Obergefell Reflection, 84 UMKC L. Rev. 617 (2016)
• It's Not Over: Empowering the Different Voice in Legal Academia, 29 Berkeley J. Gender L. & Just. 320 (2014)
• Healing the "Isms" in Our Bodies, Our Selves, Our Communities, in Social Justice Today, Vol. I, Issue 1 (Spring 2012)
• Shaking Out the Welcome Mat for Enduring Lat/Crit Social Movement, 18 A.U.J. of Gender, Social Policy and L. 711 (2011)
• Crazy Mexican Border Politics Post 9-11, Women on the Border (2011)
• Justice Interrupted: The Ciudad Juarez Femicides and Global Social Responsibility, LA VOZ (Esperanza Center) (March 2010)
• Gender, Globalization and Women's Issues in Panama City: A Comparative Inquiry, 41 U. of Miami Inter-American L. Rev. 19 (2010)
• Sociocultural Consequences of Free Trade: Accountability for Murder in the Maquiladoras, 5 Seattle J. Soc. Just. 603 (2007)