[1] The group has advocated for the nomination and confirmation of more Asian American judges to the federal courts.
[2][3] In 2000, the group led a consortium of Asian American organizations that called for a bipartisan independent inquiry in the Wen Ho Lee case, including whether the investigation of Lee, a former scientist of Los Alamos National Laboratory, was tainted by anti-Asian bias.
[4][5] Along with other civil rights groups (including other Asian American advocacy organizations), NAPABA has joined amicus briefs defending affirmative action.
[11] In 2017, NAPABA and a group of Yale Law School students co-published a study critiquing the lack of Asian American representation in major legal positions.
[12] Justice Goodwin Liu of the California Supreme Court was one of the authors of the report.