Lupe Salinas
Professor of Law

Joined Faculty 2000

Education:
B.A., 1970 University Of Houston, Houston, TX
J.D., 1972 University Of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX

Phone: (713) 313-7353

Fax: (713) 313-1049

Email: Lupe Salinas

Biographical Information

• Professor Of Law, Texas Southern University-Thurgood Marshall School of Law, Houston, TX., August 2000-Present
• Visiting District Court Judge, Houston, Texas, 1997-2006
• Judge, 351st District Court, Houston, TX, 1989-96
• Chief, Federal Trial Division, Harris County Attorney's Office, Houston, TX., 1985-88
• Visiting Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX., 1985
• Chief, Civil Rights Division, U.S. Attorney's Office, Houston, TX., 1980-83
• Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, TX., 1975, 1982, 1985, 1992-93
• Distinguished Lecturer, Political Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX., 1975-83; 1992-94
• Special Assistant to the U.S. Attorney General, U.S. Department of Justice, Washington, D.C., 1979-1980
• Assistant United States Attorney, Southern District of Texas Civil Rights Division, Houston, TX., 1977-1979
• Assistant District Attorney, Harris County, Houston, TX., 1974-1977
• Staff Attorney, Mexican-American Legal Defense & Educational Fund (MALDEF), San Antonio, TX., 1972-1974

Honors And Awards

• Hispanic Bar Association, Lifetime Achievement Award, May 1995
• Houston Area Women's Center, Community Service Award, November 1989
• Houston Five Outstanding Young Men Award, presented by the Houston Jaycees, February 1983
• Arthur S. Flemming Award, presented by the Washington, D.C. Jaycees as one of the 10 outstanding Federal Government Employees, April 1983
• IMAGE Hispanic of the Year, 1985

Affiliations
Supreme Court of Texas, 1972
United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, 1972-88; 1997-Present
United States District Court Southern District of Texas, 1973-88
United States District Court Western District of Texas 1973-88
Houston Bar Association

Academic Interests
Evidence
Criminal Procedure
Criminal Law
Latinos & the Law-Civil Rights

Publications

• Lupe S. Salinas, Immigration and Language Rights: The Evolution of Private Racist Attitudes into American Public Law and Policy, 7 NEVADA LAW JOURNAL 895 (2007).
• Lupe S. Salinas & Dr. Robert H. Kimball, The Equal Treatment of Unequals: Barriers Facing Latinos and the Poor in Texas Public Schools, 14 GEORGETOWN JOURNAL on POVERTY LAW & POLICY 215 (2007).
• Lupe S. Salinas, LINGUAPHOBIA, LANGUAGE RIGHTS AND THE RIGHT OF PRIVACY, 3 STANFORD JOURNAL OF CIVIL RIGHTS & CIVIL LIBERTIES 53 (2007).
• Lupe S. Salinas, IS IT TIME TO KILL THE DEATH PENALTY?: A VIEW FROM THE BENCH AND THE BAR, 34 AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW 39 (2006).
• Lupe S. Salinas, LATINO EDUCATIONAL NEGLECT: THE RESULTS BESPEAK DISCRIMINATION, 5 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND LAW JOURNAL 269 (2005).
• Salinas, Latinos and Criminal Justice in Texas: Has the New Millennium Brought Progress?, 30 T. MARSHALL L. REV. 289 (2005)
• Salinas, Deportations, Removals and the 1996 Immigration Acts: A Modern Look at the Ex Post Facto Clause, 22 B. U. INT’L L.J. 245 (2004).
• Salinas, Gus Garcia and Thurgood Marshall: Two Legal Giants Fighting for Justice, 28 T. Marshall L. Rev. 145 (2003)
• Salinas & Hinojosa, MABAH: The First Twenty Years, 1992 Tex. B.J. 365 (1992)
• Salinas & Torres, The Undocumented Mexican Alien: A Legal, Economic, and Social Analysis, 13 Hous. L. Rev. 863 (1976)
• Comment, Mexican-Americans and the Desegregation of Schools in the Southwest, 8 Hous. L. Rev. 929 (1971)
• Salinas, Mexican-Americans and the Desegregation of Schools in the Southwest-A Supplement, 4El Grito 59 (1971)
• Salinas, Can Chicanos Find Justice in Schools? Agenda, (Fall 1973)
• Prepared by Lupe Salinas & Ruben De Luna, Notarios Publico, A bilingual pamphlet published by the Texas Young Lawyers Association as a consumer protection service (1979)

Presentations and Professional Activities

• Lecturer, Foro: Análisis de la Reforma Constitucional en Materia de Seguridad Pública y Derecho Penal (Forum: Analysis of the Constitutional Reform in Matters of Public Security and Criminal Law), Topic: The Presumption of Innocence and the Oral Trials, Puebla, Puebla, México, March 31-April 2, 2008.
• Course Director, MABAH Seminar for the General Practitioner, Houston, TX., 1993
• Co-Director, MABAH Seminar for the General Practitioner, Houston, TX., 1994
• Speaker, Hearsay, Chisme and Other Interesting Topics, Hidalgo County Young Lawyers Association, McAllen, TX, September 1997
• Lecturer, From Monroe to Monell to Money: Section 1983 Litigation, MABAH Seminar for the General Practitioner, South Texas College of Law, Houston TX, March 1994
• Lecturer, Demonstrative Evidence, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Civil Law C.L.E., Houston, TX, September 1991
• Lecturer, Ineffective Assistance of Counsel, State Bar of Texas, Advanced Criminal Law Seminar, Dallas TX, July 1994
• Lecturer, Texas Criminal Proceedings, (in Spanish), Texas/Puebla Judicial conference on the Administration of Justice, Puebla, Puebla, Mexico, July 1989, May 1992
• Lecturer, The United States Criminal Justice System (in Spanish), U.S. State Department, U.S. Information Service, Lima Peru, April 10-14, 1988

A Favorite Quote:
A popular Mexican dicho, "El que mucho abarca poco aprieta." [ He who tries to do too much at one time accomplishes very little. ]