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Juan F. Perea
Distinguished Lee Chair in Constitutional Law
The John Marshall Law School
315 South Plymouth Court
Chicago, Illinois 60604
Phone: 312.427.2737 ext. 379
Email: jperea@jmls.edu
Office: Room 1059
Office Hours: Weds. 1:30-2:30 p.m. or by appointment
BA, University of Maryland
JD, magna cum laude, Boston College Law School
Juan F. Perea is Professor of Law at the Loyola University Chicago School of Law. Until 2011, he was the Cone, Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Hazouri & Roth Professor of Law at the Levin College of Law at the University of Florida. During spring semester 2011, he was the Distinguished Visiting Reuschlein Professor of Law at Villanova School of Law. He has been a visiting professor at Harvard Law School, Boston College Law School, and University of Colorado Law School. He teaches Constitutional Law, Employment Law, Professional Responsibility, Critical Theory seminar, and Race and Race Relations.
Professor Perea received his JD, magna cum laude, from Boston College Law School. After law school he clerked for the Honorable Bruce M. Selya of the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. He practiced law with Ropes & Gray and with the National Labor Relations Board, Region One, both in Boston.
His articles have been published in Harvard Law Review, California Law Review, NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, UCLA Law Review, and Minnesota Law Review, among others. He is the lead author of Race and Races: Cases and Resources for a Diverse America (2nd ed. 2007)(with Delgado, Harris, Wildman, and Stefancic) and co-author of Latinos and the Law (2008)(with Delgado and Stefancic). Professor Perea is the editor of and a contributor to Immigrants Out! The New Nativism and the Anti-Immigrant Impulse in the United States (NYU Press 1997). He is an elected member of the American Law Institute.
