Lecturer in Law
- B.A. UC Berkeley, 1996
- J.D. UCLA School of Law, 2000
Shiu-Ming Cheer is a Lecturer at UCLA School of Law and teaches Problem Solving in the Public Interest: Law 541. Previously she co-taught the An Introduction to Public Interest Law & Policy class and the Immigrants’ Rights Policy Clinic from 2020-21. She earned her B.A. in English and Ethnic Studies from U.C. Berkeley, and a J.D. from UCLA School of Law as a graduate of the David J. Epstein Program in Public Interest Law and Policy.
Shiu-Ming has over 25 years of experience at the intersection of immigrant rights, criminal legal reform, and anti-state violence work. Her work spans direct legal services, impact litigation, coalition building, and policy advocacy at the local, state, and national levels. Her positions have included Director of Programs at the Asian Law Caucus, Deputy Director of Programs and Campaigns at the California Immigrant Policy Center, Director of Movement Building and Strategic Partnerships at the National Immigration Law Center, Soros Justice Fellow and Managing Attorney at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Civil Rights Coordinator at South Asian Network, and Children’s Attorney at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project.
Currently Shiu-MIng is on the Board of Directors for the Filipino Migrant Center and the UndocuBlack Network and has served on the Boards of Khmer Girls in Action and the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance (KIWA). She has received awards for her legal and community work from the National Lawyers Guild – LA, UCLA School of Law’s Public Interest Program, the Long Beach Immigrant Rights Coalition, and KIWA, as well as for her work on the LA Justice Fund and LA Raids Response Network.