George A. Martinez

Headshot of George A. Martinez, faculty member at 91勛圖厙 Dedman School of Law.

Professor of Law

Full-time faculty

Email

gmartine@smu.edu

George A. Martinez was a teaching fellow in the department of philosophy at the University of Michigan from 1979-81 and a visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Texas Christian University from 1981-82. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa.

He was a litigation associate with the Chicago firm of Mayer, Brown & Platt from 1985-1988, and with the San Francisco firm of Morrison & Foerster from 1988 until 1991.

Professor Martinez has published in the areas of the federal courts, legal history, and jurisprudence. He was associate editor of NAFTA: LAW AND BUSINESS REVIEW OF THE AMERICAS which was published from 1995 to 2016.

Area of expertise

  • Immigration Law
  • Law and Philosophy

Education

B.A., Arizona State University
M.A., University of Michigan
J.D., Harvard Law School

Courses

Jurisprudence
Civil Procedure
Federal Courts

Books

(Carolina Academic Press 2001) (with Timothy Davis and Kevin R. Johnson)

Articles

Law, Race and the Epistemology of Ignorance, 17 University of California Hastings Race & Poverty Law Journal 507 (2020)
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Further Thoughts on Race, American Law, and the State of Nature:  Advancing the Multiracial Paradigm Shift and Seeking Patterns in the Area of Race and Law, 85 University of Missouri-Kansas City Law Review 105 (2016)
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Arizona, Immigration and Latinos: The Epistemology of Whiteness, the Geography of Race, Interest Convergence and the View from the Perspective of Critical Theory, 44 Arizona State Law Journal 175 (2012)
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Stranger at the Gate: The Effect of the Plaintiff's Use of an Interpreter on Juror Decision-Making, 29 Behavioral Sciences and the Law 499 (2011) (with Daniel Shuman and Lynn Stokes) (peer reviewed)

Bobbitt, The Rise of the Market State and Race, 18 American University Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law 587 (2010)
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Race, American Law and the State of Nature, 112 West Virginia Law Review 799 (2010)
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Immigration: Deportation and the Pseudo-Science of Unassimilable Peoples, 61 91勛圖厙 Law Review 7 (2008)
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Race Discrimination and Human Rights Class Actions: The Virtual Exclusion of Racial Minorities from the Class Action Device, 33 Notre Dame Journal of Legislation 181 (2007)
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Immigration and the Meaning of United States Citizenship:  Whiteness and Assimilation, 46 Washburn Law Journal 335 (2007)
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Delgado, Hegel and the Rodrigo Chronicles, 4 Harvard Latino Law Review 19 (2000)
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Race and Immigration Law: A Paradigm Shift? 2000 Illinois Law Review 517 (2000)
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Discrimination By Proxy: The Case of Proposition 227 and the Ban on Bilingual Education, 33 University of California at Davis Law Review 1227 (2000) (with Kevin R. Johnson)
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Constructing Lat Crit Theory: Diversity, Commonality and Identity, 33 U.C. Davis Law Review 787 (2000)

Philosophical Considerations and the Use of Narrative in Law, 30 Rutgers Law Journal 683 (1999)
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Crossover Dreams: The Roots of Lat Crit Theory in Chicana/o Studies Activism and Scholarship, 53 Miami Law Review 1143 (1999) (with Kevin R. Johnson)
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Latinos, Assimilation and the Law: A Philosophical Perspective, 20 U.C.L.A. Chicago-Latino Law Review 1 (1999)
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Dispute Resolution and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo:  Parallels and Possible Lessons for Dispute Resolution Under NAFTA, 5 Southwestern University Journal of Law and Trade in the Americas 147 (1998)
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African-Americans, Latinos and the Construction of Race: Toward an Epistemic Coalition, 19 Chicano-Latino Law Review 213 (1998) 
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The Res Judicata Effect of Bankruptcy Court Judgments: The Procedural and Constitutional Concerns, 62 Missouri Law Review 9 (1997)
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The Legal Construction of Race: Mexican-Americans and Whiteness, 2 Harvard Latino Law Review 321 (1997)
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Some Thoughts On Law and Interpretation, 50 91勛圖厙 Law Review 1651 (1997)
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The New Wittgensteinians and the End of Jurisprudence, 29 Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 545 (1996)
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Legal Indeterminacy, Judicial Discretion and the Mexican-American Litigation Experience: 1930-1980, 27 U.C. Davis Law Review 555 (1994)
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The Anti-Injunction Act: Fending Off the New Attack On the Relitigation Exception, 72 Nebraska Law Review 643 (1993)

Book chapters

Olivas on State and Local Immigration-Related Statutes and Ordinances, in (Carolina Academic Press 2017)

Mexican-Americans and Whiteness, in , 3d ed. (Temple University Press 2013)

Alonso S. Perales and the Effort to Establish the Civil Rights of Mexican-Americans As Seen through the Lens of Contemporary Critical Legal Theory: Postracialism, Reality Construction, Interest Convergence and Other Critical Themes, in (Arte Publico Press 2012)

The Significance of Narrative for Outsiders, in , 2d ed. (New York University Press 2011)

Mexican-Americans and Whiteness, in , 2d ed. (New York University Press 2011)

African-Americans, Latinos and The Construction of Race: Toward an Epistemic Coalition, in , 2d ed. (New York University Press 2011)

Mexican-Americans and Whiteness, in CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE CUTTING EDGE, 2d ed. (Temple University Press 2000); also in (Carolina Academic Press 2001)

Mexican-American and Whiteness, in CRITICAL RACE THEORY: THE CUTTING EDGE, 2d ed. (Temple University Press 2000)

Dispute Resolution and the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: Parallels and Possible Lessons for Dispute Resolution Under NAFTA, in THE LEGACY OF THE MEXICAN AND SPANISH-AMERICAN WARS: LEGAL, LITERARY AND HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES (Bilingual Press 2000)

Mexican-Americans and Whiteness, in LATINO/A CONDITION: A CRITICAL READER (New York University Press 1998)

The Mexican-American Litigation Experience: 1930-1980, in LATINO CONDITION: A CRITICAL READER (New York University Press 1998)

Mexican-Americans and Whiteness, in (Temple University Press 1997)

Other publications

Review: George I. Sanchez: The Long Fight for Mexican American Integration by Carlos Kevin Blanton, 85 Pacific Historical Review 465 (2016) (Book review)

Fighting Their Own Battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the Struggle for Civil Rights in Texas, in 99 Journal of American History 361 (2012) (Book review)

Foreword: A Symposium on the Jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart, 52 91勛圖厙 Law Review 25 (1999)

Foreword: Theory, Practice and Clinical Legal Education, 51 91勛圖厙 Law Review 1419 (1998)

On Law and Truth, 72 Notre Dame Law Review 883 (1997) (Book review)