Getting a Law Degree, Even If It Kills Me: Law Students Petition to Award Posthumous License
By Crime HQ
May 6, 2014We've heard of posthumous awards, but what about posthumous licenses? Students in California are petitioning the State Bar of California to award Hong Yen Chang a license he was denied because he was Chinese…back in 1890. Chang is credited as being the first Chinese immigrant to become an American lawyer, as he was able to…