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Visiting Harvard Law School Professor Self-Deports After Pellet Gun Incident

Kevin R Johnson

This doesn’t happen often. A visiting faculty member at Harvard Law School self deported? It involved an arrest for the shooting of a pellet gun in front of a synagogue. “The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) publicly declared the incident an `anti-Semitic shooting,’ withdrew his visa, and [Carlos Portugal] Gouvêa was arrested by [Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)]. After which Gouvêa voluntarily left the country.” Here is the DHS statement about the incident.

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Kevin R Johnson
Kevin R. Johnson is a Mabie-Apallas Distinguished Professor of Law and Director of the Aoki Center. Johnson also has an appointment as Professor of Chicana/o Studies at UC Davis. He joined the UC Davis law faculty in 1989 and was named Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998. Johnson then served as Dean from 2008 to 2024, the longest term in UC Davis School of Law history. He has taught a wide array of classes, including immigration law, civil procedure, complex litigation, Latinos and Latinas and the law, and Critical Race Theory. In 1993, he was the recipient of the law school’s Distinguished Teaching Award.
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