Vincent A. Eng is the Deputy Director of the Asian American Justice Center (formerly the National Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium), a national non-profit and non-partisan organization that works to advance the human and civil rights of Asian Americans through advocacy, public policy, public education, and litigation. Mr. Eng also serves as the Chair of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Committee on Language Rights.
At AAJC, Mr. Eng oversees its extensive public policy programs and its litigation efforts. He has filed numerous amicus briefs in the Supreme Court of the United States, including in the University of Michigan affirmative action cases, testified before Congress on civil rights matters, and has participated on various national panels and debates. Mr. Eng has appeared on CSPAN, National Public Radio, and has been quoted by San Francisco Chronicle, The Associated Press, San Jose Mercury, FOX News, Legal Times, The Los Angeles Times, Pioneer Press as well as numerous local papers.
Before joining AAJC, Mr. Eng was Managing Editor at Bernan, the nation’s largest provider of government information and the official publisher of the World Trade Organization and UNESCO. At Bernan, Mr. Eng directed its editorial, production, acquisition, and marketing efforts. Prior to Bernan, he was an attorney-advisor at the United States Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs. He received the Assistant Attorney General’s Award, the highest award given by that agency.
In addition to his duties at AAJC, Mr. Eng is an adjunct professor of law at American University, Washington College of Law and a lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School and George Washington University Law School where he has lectured on Asian Americans and the Law, Commercial Litigation, Criminal Law and Sentencing, and Legal Research and Writing. In 2005, Mr. Eng established Asian Americans and the Law as part of the law school curriculum at George Washington University Law School. He also served as the faculty advisor for the National Security and Law Society and The Modern American Journal at the Washington College of Law. Mr. Eng has supervised clinical students in a non-faculty capacity at the Harvard Law School, New York University Law School, and the University of Maryland School of Law.
Mr. Eng has published extensively. He has written and edited over ten books on various legal and political matters and has served as the editor in chief of the Almanac of the Executive Branch. Mr. Eng’s most recent major publication Sentencing, Sanctions, and Corrections, a law school casebook, was published by Foundation Press, a division of West Publishing. His recent writings have focused on federalism in the courts and community relations/racial violence.
In 2007 Mr. Eng was recognized by the National Asian Pacific American Bar Association as a Best Lawyer Under 40.
Mr. Eng is a graduate of Brandeis University, where he received his B.A. in Politics. From The American University, he received his J.D., M.S. in Criminal Justice, and had worked toward his M.B.A.
Mr. Eng is admitted to practice before the Court of Appeals of Maryland and the Supreme Court of the United States of America.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Law Casebooks
2002 Kittrie, N. N., E. H. Zenoff, and V. A. Eng, eds. 2002. Sentencing, Sanctions, and Corrections—Federal and State: Law, Policy, and Practice. 2d. ed. New York: The Foundation Press, Inc.
Legal Practitioner Books
1999 Eng, Vincent A., Joanne T. Deschenaux, eds. 1999. Maryland Damages 1999 Supplement. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
1999 Eng, Vincent A., Joanne T. Deschenaux, eds. 1999. Jury Instructions 1999 Supplement. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
1999 Eng, Vincent A., Joanne T. Deschenaux, eds. 1999. Family Law 1999 Supplement. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
1999 Eng, Vincent A., Steven D. Najarian, eds. 1999. Maryland Criminal Law 1999 Supplement. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
1998 Eng, V. A. , P. A. Jermyn, S. D. Najarian, and J. J. Patton, eds. 1998. Maryland Criminal Law. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
1998 Deschenaux, J. T., V. A. Eng, P. A. Jermyn, and S. D. Najarian, eds. 1998. Maryland Family Law. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
1998 Deschenaux, J. T., V. A. Eng, P. A. Jermyn, S. D. Najarian, and J. J. Patton, eds. 1998. Maryland Jury Instructions. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
1998 Deschenaux, J. T., V. A. Eng, P. A. Jermyn, and S. D. Najarian, eds. 1998. Maryland Damages. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
Political/Government Books & Articles
2006 Morgan, Denise et al. 2006. Awakening from the Dream: Civil Rights under Siege and the New Struggle for Equal Justice - Asian Americans under the Rehnquist Court: A Protracted and Ongoing Struggle for Justice and Recognition. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press.
2005 Baldillo, A. J., Mendy, J., Eng, V. A. 2005. Save a Hunter, Shoot a Hmong: A Community Held Responsible–The Assignment of Blame by the Media. The Modern American 1:3-7.
2001 Eng, Vincent A. ed. 2001. The Almanac of the Executive Branch. 5th. ed. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
2001 Eng, Vincent A. ed. 2001. Biographical Directory of the Federal Judiciary. Lanham, MD: Bernan Press.
1999 Eng, V. A., J. T. Deschenaux, and J. B. Kowalsky, eds. 1999. The Almanac of the Executive Branch. 4th. ed. Washington, D.C.: Almanac Publishing, Inc.
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