CALL FOR PAPERS: 2008 Immigration Law & Policy Symposium November 7, 2008 Thurgood Marshall School of Law at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas

CALL FOR PAPERS & PANEL PARTICIPANTS

Thurgood Marshall School of Law in conjunction with the Thurgood Marshall Law Review is hosting a 2008 Immigration Policy Symposium. The Symposium will provide an opportunity for scholars to engage in discussions concerning America’s immigration policy’s impact on a wide variety of legal, economic, and social issues. We encourage scholars to submit an article or essay that examines immigration’s impact on issues including, but not limited to, undocumented immigrant status, employment, education, criminal procedure, race and the law, racial profiling, Congress and the power to regulate immigration and the preemption rationale as well as humanitarian efforts. While we prefer scholarly works addressing the indicated issues, we will gladly consider any submission on topics that also relates to immigration and demonstrate a commitment to legal, economic and social justice for all persons residing in America regardless of their immigration or citizenship status. Every individual who chooses to participate in the Symposium as a panelist must also present a work of publishable quality to the Law Review for publication. A written work of “publishable quality,” shall consist of not less than twenty (20) double spaced typewritten pages (including footnotes) relating to the topical focus of the Symposium. The goal for all articles submitted to the Law Review in conjunction with the Symposium is to publish them as a nested Special Issue within Volume 34, Issue 2 of the spring 2009 publication of the Thurgood Marshall Law Review. Please send an abstract of your paper to Ms. Andreaus Boise via e-mail at anboise@tmslaw.tsu.edu or a hard copy to: Ms. Andreaus Boise Thurgood Marshall School of Law 3100 Cleburne Street Houston, Texas 77004 (713) 313-1014 In your abstract, please indicate if you intend to serve as a panelist and submit a paper for publication or whether you are submitting a paper for publication only. The deadline for submitting abstracts is August 1, 2008. The final draft of publishable quality must be submitted to Ms. Boise not later than October 1, 2008. We hope that you will consider participating in the Symposium and writing for the Law Review. Feel free to email or call with any questions. Sincerely, Sammy Hooda, Editor-in-Chief Andreaus Boise Kristina Larry, Symposium Editor Thurgood Marshal Law Review Symposium Vice-Chair Thurgood Marshall Law Review Associate Dean Roberson King Professor L. Darnell Weeden Symposium Chair

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