Leticia Saucedo
Visiting Professor of Law
Leticia Saucedo is an expert in employment, labor, and immigration law. She has taught Torts and Immigration Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV) since 2003 and has developed courses in international and domestic service learning that explore the immigration consequences of crime and domestic violence in a post-conflict society. Saucedo also co-directs the UNLV Immigration Law Clinic and is a research scholar with the Chief Justice Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity, and Diversity at the University of California, Berkeley Law School.
Saucedo earned her AB, cum laude, from Bryn Mawr College in 1984 and her JD, cum laude, in 1996 from Harvard Law School, where she was managing editor of the Harvard Latino Law Review. After law school, she served as briefing attorney to Chief Justice Thomas Phillips of the Texas Supreme Court. She then became an associate at Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, and Jacobsen in New York City, where she was the recipient of the Fried Frank MALDEF Fellowship. From 1999 to 2003, she worked as a staff attorney for the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund in San Antonio, Texas, where she litigated employment and education cases.
Saucedo’s research interests lie at the intersections of employment, labor, and immigration law. She is co-editing a casebook on Latinos and the law entitled, “The Legal Construction of a Latino Identity.” She is also the author of numerous articles, including A New “U”: Organizing Victims and Protecting Immigrant Workers (2008), The Illusion of Transformative Conflict Resolution: Mediating Domestic Violence in Nicaragua (co-authored with Raquel Aldana) (2008), and Addressing Segregation in the Brown Collar Workplace: Toward a Solution for the Inexorable 100% (2008).
