About Leticia
Leticia Saucedo began her legal journey at Bryn Mawr College, where she earned an A.B. in 1984, and continued on to Harvard Law School, receiving her J.D. in 1996. Those academic credentials set a foundation for a career that has spanned scholarship, teaching and institutional research work at major law schools.
After law school she gained admission to the Texas bar in 1996 and to the New York bar in 1999. Rather than pursuing a long run in private practice, she moved into academic life. Her appointments reflect steady progression through law schools that value both teaching and research.
In 2003 she joined the William S. Boyd School of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, as a professor of law. Her time there helped establish her as a professor attentive to classroom and faculty responsibilities. She later served as a visiting professor at Duke University School of Law in 2009, spending a year engaged with a different academic community and colleagues across disciplines.
She moved to the University of California, Davis School of Law and, in 2010, took on the title Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar. That role pairs teaching with a research appointment. It also positions her to contribute to institutional scholarship tied to the themes evoked by the Hall’s namesake.
Beyond her campus posts, she has been active in broader legal institutions. She holds membership in the American Law Institute beginning in 2010, a body that brings together judges, academics and practitioners to study legal problems. Since 2008 she has been listed as a research scholar at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity at UC Berkeley School of Law, indicating a sustained engagement with issues of race and institutional reform.
Colleagues describe her as a steady presence in faculty governance and research circles. Her written work and teaching have intersected with institutional centers and bar memberships that keep her connected to both scholarly and professional communities. She remains based at the University of California, Davis School of Law, where she teaches and pursues research that concentrates on questions of race, ethnicity and diversity in law.
