AALS 2024 Immigration Section Sessions

These are the Immigration Section's events at the upcoming AALS conference in Washington DC (Jan. 3-6). We hope to see many of you there!

 

Thursday, Jan. 4 , 3-4pm: "Immigrants Defending Democracy and Resisting Dictatorship"

Panelists: Dina Haynes (New England Law), Jennifer Koh (Pepperdine),  S. Priya Morley (UCLA), Huyen Pham (Texas A&M, moderator), Oren Sellstrom (Lawyers for Civil Rights)

 

Friday, Jan. 5, 12-1:40: New Voices in Immigration Law

Papers by Matthew Boaz (discussant Daniel Morales), Shane Ellison (discussant Jaya Ramji-Nogales), Valeria Gomez (discussant Shruti Rana), David Hausman (discussant Jenny-Brooke Condon), Jenny Kim (discussant Rose Cuison-Villazor), and Joel Sati (discussant Cori Alonso-Yoder).  Please RSVP for this session with the Google Form to select a breakout group and receive papers ahead of the conference.  Paper titles and details below.

    Group 1: 

• Rescuing Noncitizen Veterans From the "Zone of Death," by Jenny Kim.
• The Toll Paid When Adjudicators Err: Reforming Appellate Review Standards for Refugees, by Shane Ellison
• The Migration of Abolition Theory, by Matthew Boaz

    Group 2:

• When Jurisdiction Stripping Raises Factual Questions, by David Hausman
• The New Dobbs Border for Immigrant Women, by Valeria Gomez
• Privacy and the Impossibility of Borders, by Joel Sati 

Saturday, Jan. 6, 10-11:40: Teaching Critical Mobilization 

Panelists: Sameer Ashar, Laila Hlass, Kathleen Kim 

 

MHC (on behalf of executive committee Fatma Marouf, Carolina Nunez, Michael Kagan, Kathleen Kim, Ming H. Chen)