Andrew Leong

J.D., Boston College Law School

Associate Professor of Law

Office: W-4-144-14

Phone number: 617-287-7243

andrew.leong@umb.edu

 

Andrew Leong is an Associate Professor at CPCS. He has taught at CPCS since 1990. His specialty is on law, justice, and equality pertaining to disenfranchised communities, with a focus on Asian Americans. From 1987 to 1993 he was Clinical Director of the Chinatown Clinical Program at Boston College Law School . He was Supervising Attorney of the Asian Outreach Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services from 1986 to 1990.

 

Professor Leong is a graduate of Drake University (1982- BA) in Des Moines , Iowa and Boston College Law School (1985- JD) in Newton , Massachusetts .

 

He is active in community and civil rights work, having served on the Board of Trustee of numerous Asian American and civil rights related organizations (e.g. Asian American Resource Workshop, Asian Community Development Corporation, the Chinatown Quincy School Community Council, the Executive Committee of the Greater Boston Civil Rights Coalition, the Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, The Institute for Affirmative Action, the Fair Housing Center of Greater Boston, and the Steering Committee of the Lawyers' Committee For Civil Rights Under Law). Andrew also served as the President of the Asian American Lawyers Association of Massachusetts from 1989 to 1994. During the same period he was also President of the Harry H. Dow Memorial Legal Assistance Fund. He has fought numerous episodes of environmental injustice in Boston 's Chinatown since 1982 and is the chair of the Campaign to Protect Chinatown. Andrew has also provided technical assistance to victims of anti-Asian violence. He has written about welfare and immigration reform, hate crimes, environmental justice, and on community lawyering.

 

Recent Publications:

Doug Brugge, Andrew Leong, Amy Law, “Environmental Health in Boston Chinatown” in Asian Americans: Vulnerable Populations, Model Interventions, and Clarifying Agendas, edited by Lin Zhan. Jones and Bartlett ( Sudbury , MA ) pp. 43-67. 2003.

 

Leong, Andrew, “A Case Against Liberty,” Pacific Citizen ( Monterey Park , CA ), Vol. 135, No. 11, December 2002, p. 28

Evaluates the following competencies:

•  Social Differences

•  Legal Advocacy

•  Legal Reasoning and Argument

•  Advanced Legal Advocacy

•  Basic Concepts of Justice

•  Community and Group Advocacy

 

Links:

http://www.umb.edu/news/guide/asian.html

http://www.cpaboston.org/neighborhoodorganizing/chinatown_schweitzer.html