Professor Ancheta's teaching and research focus on constitutional law, civil rights, racial discrimination, and immigrants' rights. Prior to his academic career, he was a legal services and civil rights attorney, and specialized in immigration law and appellate advocacy. From 1994 to 1998, he was the executive director of the San Francisco-based Asian Law Caucus, and was previously a staff attorney at nonprofit legal services organizations in both Northern and Southern California.

Director, Legal & Advocacy Programs, The Civil Rights Project, Harvard University Lecturer, Harvard Law School Adjunct Associate Professor of Law, New York University School of Law Lecturer, UCLA School of Law

Constitutional Law Civil Rights Voting Rights Immigration Law

Work in progress: Scientific Evidence and Equal Protection of the Law (forthcoming January 2006, Rutgers University Press)