The English Department is proud to spearhead a series of courses in the field of Asian American Studies.  The inaugural course for this series (to be found under ENG 224: Topics in Asian American Studies) is entitled "Law, Bodies, and the Everyday," currently being team-taught by Prof. Anne A. Cheng and the Honorable Judge Denny Chin from the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.  This course studies the constitutive roles that Asian Americans play in U.S. legal history, contributing to the conceptualization of American citizenship, civil rights, foreign policy, human rights, immigration, and the nation itself.  We pair real legal cases with cultural products such as novels, films, poems, and plays in order to attend to the invisible ways in which the law shapes the private realms of feelings, bodies, and spaces.  This course is also proud to present, with the support of the Asian American Student Association and the Program in Law and Public Affairs, a series of lunch conversation with Judge Chin on topics such as "Famous Asian American Legal Cases,"  "Sentencing," and "Litigating Intellectual Property Cases."