Law and Society 2013

Boston, Massachusetts

Immigration and Citizenship-Related Panels[1]

Day/Date/Time / Session Title and Speakers / Location
Thur May 30 2013
12:30 to 2:15 pm / Author Meets Reader: Shannon Gleeson, Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant Worker Rights in San Jose and Houston
Chair: John Park (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Author: Shannon Gleeson (University of California at Santa Barbara)
Readers: Catherine Fiske (University of California at Irvine School of Law); John Park (University of California at Santa Barbara); Doris Marie Provine (Arizona State University); / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 01
Thur May 30 2013
12:30 to 2:15 pm / Criminalizing Immigration
Chair: Ruben Garcia (UNLV Law School)
Monica DeLateur (Northeastern University), The Implications of Being Foreign-Born on Drug Trafficking Sentence Decisions
Rolince Mbungo (University of Poitiers), The Protection of Internally Displaced Persons by the UN Human Rights Bodies: Research of Its Effectiveness
Linda Williams (University of Kansas), Welcoming the Outside: Variations in Local Construction of the Law Toward Immigrants / Hynes Convention Center
Room HH
Fri May 31 2013
8:15 to 10:00 am / Author Meets Reader: Two Crimmigration New Books – Social Control and Justice: Crimmigration in the Age of Fear
Chair: Maria J. Guia (University of Coimbra)
Authors: Maarte A.H. Van Der Woude (Leiden University); Robert Koulish (University of Maryland, College Park); Doris Marie Provine (Arizona State University); Maria J. Guia (University of Coimbra)
Readers: Jennifer Chacon (University of California at Irvine); Juliet Stumpf (Lewis & Clark Law School); Mark Noferi (Brooklyn Law School);
Author: Joanne P. Van Der Leun (Leiden University)
Reader: Dulce Margarida Lopes (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra). / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 08
Fri May 31 2013
10:15 am to 12:00 pm / Fighting the Illegal Business of the Trafficking of Human Beings
Chair: Maria J. Guia (University of Coimbra)
Jessica Christine Elliott (University of the West of England), Barriers to the Identification of Trafficked Victims in the United Kingdom
Joanne P. Van Der Leun (Leiden University), Fighting the Illegal Business of the Trafficking of Human Beings
Christine Danielle Gilfillan (Temple Law and Public Policy Scholar), Victims Protection: A Comprehensive Legislative Approach to Combating Sexual Trafficking in the United States
Augusta Iglesias Skulj (University of a Coruna), Counter Sex Trafficking Policies: Biopolitical and Gender Control
Nina Mollema (University of South Africa), Protecting the Powerless and Punishing the Powerful: Combating the Crime of Human Trafficking in South Africa / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 08
Fri May 31 2013
2:30 to 4:15 pm / Managing Migrant Legalizations vs. Criminalizing Illegal Immigration in a Spirit of “Crimmigration: Comparative Perspectives
Chair: Doris Marie Provine (Arizona State University); Co-Chair: Maria J. Guia (University of Coimbra)
Luis Fernandez (Northern Arizona University); Meghan G. McDowell (Arizona State University), Untenable Lives: Ethnic Cleansing in Arizona
Mark Noferi (Brooklyn Law School), U.S. Pre-Hearing Mandatory Immigration Detention: The Expressive Functions of the Noncitizen Presumption of Dangerousness
Emilien Julliard (L’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales), Sebastien Chauvin (University of Amsterdam), Making Migrant Legality: French Labor Unions Reshaping the Rights of “Sans-Papier” Workers
Dulce Margarida Lopes (Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de Coimbra), Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Public Acts
Kathryn Abrams (University of Berkeley School of Law), Performative Citizenship and Claims-Making by Undocumented Immigrants
/ Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 05
Fri May 31 2013
2:30 to 4:15 pm / Pursuing Equality and Membership: LGBTQ Individuals and Undocumented Immigrants
Chair: Linda Bosniak (Rutgers University School of Law)
Joseph Landau (Fordham University School of Law), Prosecutorial Discretion, Immigration Law, and Internal Separation Powers
Rose Cuison Villazor (University of California at Davis School of Law), Coming Out of Immigration Law’s Closet
Lauris Wren (Hofstra University Law School), Representing LGBT Noncitizens in Asylum Cases / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 18
Fri May 31 2013
2:30 to 4:15 pm / Fighting for Human Rights: The Institutional and Non-Institutional Agents of Human Rights
Chair/Discussant: Mikael R. Madsen (iCourts – Centre of Excellence for International Courts)
Dina Haynes (New England Law School), The Celebrification of Human Rights and Human Trafficking
Stavros Papadopoulos (Georgia State University), Exploring Consequences of Unequalized Labor Standards
Sergey Dikman (Council of Europe), Ban on “Homosexual Propaganda” as “Protection of Minors”: A Basis for Rights Violation?: Example of Russia
Chris Kendall (Princeton University), Strategic Constraints on Domestic Court Use of International Law
Lael Weinberger (Northern Illinois University), Enforceable Rights? American Lawyers, National Sovereignty, and International Human Rights, 1942-1950
/ Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 27
Fri May 31 2013
4:30 to 6:15 pm / Deserving Immigrants: Claims, Arguments and Strategies
Chair: Linda Bosniak (Rutgers University School of Law)
Linda Bosniak (Rutgers University School of Law), Unapologetic: Dreamers, Their Parents and Responsibility
Amalia Pallares (University of Illinois), Symbolizing Family, Reconstructing Worthiness
Leti Volpp (University of California at Berkeley School of Law), A Nation of Immigrants: The Settler’s Alibi / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 09
Fri May 31 2013
4:30 to 6:15 pm / Roundtable on Future of Criminal Justice Book
Chair: L. Song Richardson (University of Iowa College of Law)
Participants: Juliet P. Stumpf (Lewis & Clark Law School); Janice Nadler (American Bar Foundation/Northwestern University); John Parry (Lewis & Clark Law School); L. Song Richardson (University of Iowa College of Law); Jack Chin (University of California at Davis School of Law). / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 21
Fri May 31 2013
4:30 to 6:15 pm / Roundtable – Law’s Borders
Chair: Chimene Keitner (University of California at Hastings)
Participants: Judith Resnik (Yale University); Nina Rabin (University of Arizona Rogers College of Law) / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 03
Sat June 1 2013
8:15 to 10:00 am / From Undocumented to DACAmented: How the Law Has Shaped Theory and Practice Around Undocumented Students’ Lives, Activism and Post-Graduate Experience
Chair: Kevin Escudero (University of California at Berkeley)
Kevin Escudero (University of California at Berkeley), Organizing While Undocumented: The Law as a “Double Edged Sword” in the Movement to Pass the DREAM Act
Nancy Guarneros (Claremont Graduate Study), No I Will Not Show You My “Papers”: Theorizing Around Racist Nativism and Undocumented Latina/o Youth
Luis Cortes (University of Idaho College of Law), DREAMers Raising theBar: Undocumented Students Eligibility to Sit for the Bar – Post DACA
Nicholas Espiritu (MALDEF), Presence, Liminality, and Equality: DACAmented Persons and the Constitution / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 24
Sat June 1 2013
8:15 to 10:00 am / Law and Values
Chair/Discussant: Tom Tyler (Yale University)
Tom Tyler (Yale University), Values and Law-Related Behavior
Bernadette Atuahene (Illinois Institute of Technology Law School),Was the South African Land Restitution Process Fair: A Bottom-Up Assessment of the State’s Attempt to Address the Legacy of Land Dispossession
Juliet Stumpf (Lewis & Clark Law School) The Legitimacy of Crimmigration Law
Rebecca Hollander-Blumoff (Washington University School of Law), Social Value Orientation and the Law / Hynes Convention Center
Room HH
Sat Jun 1 2013
2:30 to 4:15pm / Roundtable - Strategic Litigation as a Challenge to Hegemonic Legitimacy
Chair: Susan Musarrat Akram (Boston University School of Law)
Participants: Jeff Handmaker (Institute of Social Studies of Erasmus University Rotterdam); Susan Musarrat Akram (Boston University School of Law); Sarah Knuckey (New York University); Jamil Dakwar (American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)); Shahid Ali Buttar (Bill of Rights Defense Committee) / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 16
Sat June 1 2013
4:30 to 6:15 pm / Roundtable – Arizona SB1070 & Alabama HB56: Sealing the Gap Between Criminal Procedure and Immigration Law
Chair: Yolanda Vazquez (University of Cincinnati College of Law)
Participants: Cesar Garcia Hernandez (Capital University); Kami Simmons (Wake Forest University); Margaret Hu (Washington and Lee School of Law); Michael Rich (Elon University) / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 12
Sat June 1
2013
4:30 to 6:15 pm / Historical Perspectives on American and Citizenship Law
Chair/Discussant: Ming Hsu Chen (University of Colorado)
Rebecca Hamlin (Grinnell College), Implementing Asylum: The 1980 Refugee Act and Immigration Cause Lawyers
Angela Banks (College of William & Mary School of Law), Cultural Citizenship
Daniel Tichenor (University of Oregon), The Quest for High-Skilled Immigration: Populism, Elitism, and Evoling Legal Preferences
Lucy E. Salyer (University of New Hampshire), The Forgotten Right of Repatriation / Hynes Convention Center
Room FF
Sun June 1 2013
8:15 to 10:00 am / Drawing the Line: Race, Citizenship, and the Construction of Illegality in Federal, State, and Local Immigration Enforcement
Chair/Discussant: Daniel Kanstroom (Boston College Law School)
Kristina Campbell (University of the District of Columbia), Unreasonable Suspicion: Racial Profiling in Immigration Enforcement after Arizona v. United States
Jennifer Lee Koh (Western State College of Law), Rethinking Removability
Rachel Rosenbloom (Northeastern University), The Citizenship Line: Rethinking the Immigration Exceptionalism
Jacqueline Stevens (Northwestern University), Government Illegality: Strategies for Quasi-Liberal Times / Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 20
Sun June 2 2013
10:15 am to 12:00 pm / Comprehensive Immigration Reform: Fountain of Hope or Pandora’s Box?
Chair: Luis F.B. Plascencia (Arizona State University)
Discussant: Kif Augustine-Adams (Brigham Young University)
Luis F.B. Plascencia (Arizona State University), Waiting for Obama’s “Bracero” Workers: Are They Coming?
Jamie Longazel (University of Dayton), Benjamin D. Fleury-Steiner (University of Delaware), Governing Immigrants as Victims: Notario Fraud and the Myth of Reform
Marjorie Zatz (NSF/Arizona State University), Nancy Rodriguez (Arizona State University), Immigration Policy & Practice in the Absence of Comprehensive Immigration Reform
Jennifer Chacon (University of California at Irvine School of Law), Revisiting Criminal Removal Grounds
/ Boston Sheraton Hotel
Room 18

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[1] This chart is based on email messages sent to the Immigration Professors Listserv and individual email messages sent to me off-list. Please note that there are many more panels at Law and Society that, because of limited time, I was not able to include here. To get a more complete list of panels that relate to immigration issues, please search under “migration and immigration” on the LSA session search function. Thank you. – Rose Cuison Villazor (UC Davis School of Law)