AALS 2018
San Diego, CA
Immigration Law Section Events
Main Programs
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Co-Sponsored Panel: Immigrant Rights under the Trump Administration (with the International Human Rights Section)
1:30 - 3:15 PM
Room: Pacific Ballroom Salon 23
Floor: North Tower/Ground Level
The Trump Administration has presented a tough face on immigration. Candidate Trump promised to build a wall with Mexico, to deport 2-3 million undocumented immigrants upon taking office, and to ban Muslims from entering the United States. President Trump has taken significant steps—through executive orders, suggested appropriations, and strong rhetoric—to implement these pledges. In a further departure from prior administrations, the Trump Administration has signaled that it may move away from the use of judges in immigration hearings. By bringing together immigration and human rights scholars, this panel seeks to offer a unique and comparative analysis of the the current climate regarding immigration under the Trump Administration. President Trump’s efforts raise many important questions about immigration law, civil rights and the Constitution. Moreover, the U.S. is still party to many human rights treaties that may be implicated by the current policies, such as the Refugee Convention. Experts from around the United States will come together to work through this thorny set of legal, political, and social issues.
Speakers:
Jamil Dakwar, ACLU
Susan Dussault, Willamette University College of Law
Pratheepan Gulasekaram, Santa Clara University School of Law
Stephen Lee, University of California Irvine School of Law
Timothy Webster, Case Western Reserve University School of Law
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Panel: "Immigration Adjudication in an Era of Mass Deportation"
1:30 - 3:15 PM
Room: Pacific Ballroom Salon 16
Floor: North Tower/Ground Level
Large scale deportation has been a feature of the federal government’s immigration enforcement policy for years. Immigration policies under the new administration suggest even more expansive reliance on the tools associated with mass deportation, such as increasing the number of deportations, the scale of detention, and the categories of persons treated as removal priorities. This program examines the implications of the current administration’s mass deportation strategies for existing paradigms in the literature on immigration adjudication. Panelists will address various questions regarding immigration adjudication during this era of mass deportation, including: the rise–and likely expansion–of summary removals and other mechanisms that enable the federal government to effectuate removal in a streamlined manner and without the participation of the immigration courts; the impact of the backlog in the immigration courts on the federal government’s ability to achieve mass deportation; the continued relevance of the immigration courts and Board of Immigration Appeals as the central actors in immigration adjudication; post-deportation integration programs; and the influence of policies related to mass deportation on broader themes within immigration law such as judicial review, the rule of law, the constitutional rights of noncitizens, plenary power, or the entry fiction doctrine.
Business meeting at program conclusion.
Moderator: Jennifer L. Koh, Western State College of Law at Argosy University
Speakers:
Jason Cade, University of Georgia School of Law, "Immigration's Equity's Last Stand? Sanctuary and Legitimacy in an Era of Mass Immigration Enforcement" (Speaker from a Call for Papers)
Lucas Guttentag, Stanford Law School
Kevin R. Johnson, University of California, Davis, School of Law, "Immigration and Civil Rights in the Trump Administration: Law and Policy by Executive Order" (Speaker from a Call for Papers)
Nora Phillips, Al Otro Lado
Works-in-Progress
Saturday, January 6, 2018
3:30 - 5:15 PM
Room: Pacific Ballroom Salon 19
Floor: North Tower/Ground Level
The Immigration Law Section will be hosting a Works-in-Progress (WIP) session on papers that relate to immigration law and citizenship law. The WIP Session provides speakers the opportunity to present their work and receive feedback from commentators. Papers to be presented were selected from a Call for Papers.
Moderator: Anil Kalhan, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law
Speakers:
David Abraham, University of Miami, "Circumcision: Immigration, Religion, History, and Science in Germany and the U.S."
Commentator: Gerald Neuman, Harvard Law School
Beth Caldwell, Southwestern Law School, "Deported Americans"
Commentator: Stephen Lee, UC Irvine School of Law
Kari Hong, Boston College Law School, "When An Agency Won't Remedy A Wrongful Deportation: The Importance of Emphasizing the Civil Aspects of Immigration Law"
Commentator: Joe Landau, Fordham University School of Law
Scott Titshaw, Mercer University School of Law, "Comparative Federalism Fam-Migration, and Citizenship by Descent"
Commentator: Jill Family, Widener University School of Law
Border Tours
Wednesday, January 3, 2018, 2:00 to 5:30 PM - Border Tour
Those who signed up must be at the following address by 1:45 PM:
US Border Patrol-San Diego Sector Headquarters
2411 Boswell Road
Chula Vista, CA 91914
Friday, January 5, 2018, 2:00 to 5:30 PM - Border Tour
Those who signed up must be at the following address by 1:45 PM:
US Border Patrol-San Diego Sector Headquarters
2411 Boswell Road
Chula Vista, CA 91914
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