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TODAY, Tomorrow, Thurs -- Abolish ICE? Online Zolberg Conference

With apologies for the very last minute notice.... at 9AM Central today starts a 3 day online conference organized by the Zolberg Institute on Migration and Mobility: ABOLISH ICE? What does it mean and what is at stake?

Here's the conference description: "What is at stake when people call to transform the immigration enforcement system? In recent years, immigration enforcement has been gaining increasing attention from the media, policy-makers, scholars, and the general public. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) - the fundamental machinery within the Department of Homeland Security in charge of enforcing immigration laws in the interior of the country - has been faced with accusations of human rights abuses in detention centers, conducting brutal long-term family separations, enforcing zero tolerance policies and racial profiling, along with a lack of accountability and oversight, and the waste and mismanagement of its funding resources. The accruing negative attention has framed ICE as the toxic face of the immigration system, and has inspired a spectrum of responses to transform it."

Today's panel is 9-10:30 Central: Meaningful Transformation of the Immigration Enforcement System. Registration here (not too late to join!).

Tomorrow's panel is 9-10:30 Central: Imagining a Post-ICE Immigration Enforcement System. Registration here.

Tomorrow's panel is 3-4:30PM Central: Up-Ending Enforcement to Impact Immigration System Reform. Registration here.

-KitJ

CFP: A Civil Right to Counsel

Those who have been writing about access to counsel in immigration courts may be interested to know there is a CFP with Journal fo Civil Rights and Economic Development. Three authors will be selected to speak at a virtual panel, publish their papers, and receive a $500 honorarium. Here is the full description of the topic, submission requirements, and the deadlines:

Closing the Justice Gap:
A Civil Right to Counsel

While there is a recognized affirmative right to counsel in criminal cases in the United States of America,[1] generally, there is no right to counsel in civil cases.[2] Civil cases can determine the rights of litigants in essential matters including housing, orders relating to domestic violence, custody of children, access to healthcare, and those facing jail for failure to pay child support or criminal fines or fees.[3] 7 in 10 low income Americans experience at least one civil legal problem every year.[4] Of those experiencing civil legal problems, 70 percent report that the problems greatly affect them.[5] However, only 20 percent will seek legal help, and more than half of those who do so will receive only limited assistance or no legal assistance at all because the organizations providing assistance lack the necessary resources.[6]

Recently, several states and localities have created laws that expand the civil right to counsel. Several states have expanded the right to counsel for minors or parents in custody disputes or in cases involving orders of protections.[7] One of the most active areas is the expansion of the right to counsel in evictions. In 2017, NYC passed legislation granting low-income NYC tenants a right to counsel when they are sued in eviction cases.[8] The cities of San Francisco, Newark, Cleveland, Philadelphia, and Santa Monica passed similar right to counsel laws in 2018 and 2019.[9] In 2021, Connecticut, Maryland, and Washington enacted legislation giving low-income or indigent tenants facing eviction a right to counsel.[10] 

We are in an ideal time to explore this issue. Several recent laws and pilot programs have been in effect long enough for authors to examine how the programs have operated and where they have succeeded and failed. JCRED seeks to publish the work of scholars who creatively explore what we can do to guarantee a civil right to counsel.

Possible topics for submissions include but are not limited to:

• Analyses of the disparate results represented litigants have as compared to unrepresented ones
• Comparisons of laws or proposed legislation granting a civil right to counsel
• Explorations of the limitations or challenges posed by current or proposed civil right to counsel laws
• Proposals on how to ensure funding is available for existing and future civil right to counsel programs
• Reviews of existing laws giving a civil right to counsel, such as New York City’s Right to Counsel in eviction cases
• Comparative analyses of programs outside the United States and how they could be adopted within the country

The deadline to submit an abstract is October 10, 2021, and the selected full-length articles will be due January 9, 2022.

To Submit, Please Send:

• Abstract with a minimum length of two pages;
• Your name, title, and professional affiliation;
• Your Curriculum Vitae/Resume;
• Your contact details including phone number and email address.

Optional: Full Manuscripts are also welcome

• Manuscripts between 25 and 75 pages for full-length articles and essays, commentaries, or practice guides between 10 and 20 pages.

Please submit your abstract (or manuscript/essay/commentary) for consideration to: jcred@stjohns.edu.

Submission Deadlines:

• Abstract Deadline: October 10th, 2021
• Notification Date for Selected Authors: October 25th, 2021
• Final Article Submission Deadline: January 9th, 2022

If you have any questions about this call for papers, please contact the Research & Symposium Director, Katie O'Brien,

MHC (h/t Elaine Chiu)

Lecture Series on Race and Regulation at PennLaw

A year-long lecture series, organized by the Penn Program on Regulation at the University of Pennsylvania, will focus on issues of racial justice in regulation.  Speakers for the fall term will include: Chris Brummer of Georgetown University (Sept. 28); Jessica Trounstine of the University of California (Oct. 26); Guy-Uriel Charles of Harvard Law School (Nov. 2); Dorothy Roberts of the University of Pennsylvania (Nov. 16); and Jill Fisher of the University of North Carolina (Dec. 7). 

All lectures will be held from 5:00 - 6:00 pm Eastern Time via Zoom.  For more information and to register, visit: https://www.pennreg.org/2021/09/14/race-and-regulation-lecture-series/

September 28: New Evidence on Racial Disparities in Financial Regulatory Leadership

Chris Brummer, Agnes N. Williams Research Professor, Georgetown University Law Center

Professor Brummer, whose expertise includes financial inclusion and equity, financial regulation, and global governance, served previously on the National Adjudicatory Council of FINRA, a regulator of the securities industry. He also was a member of the Biden-Harris Transition team, advising on financial technology, racial equity, and systemic risk issues. His publications include What Do the Data Reveal About (the Absence of Black) Financial Regulators?

October 26: Redlined Forever: The Racist Past of Today’s Land Use Regulations

Jessica Trounstine, Foundation Board of Trustees Presidential Chair and Professor of Political Science, University of California, Merced

Professor Trounstine studies American politics and political representation, with a focus on how political institutions generate racial and socioeconomic inequalities. She is the author of the award-winning book, Segregation by Design: Local Politics and Inequality in American Cities.

November 2: Race, Political Power, and American Democracy: Rethinking Voting Rights Law and Policy for a Divided Nation

Guy-Uriel Charles, Charles Ogletree, Jr. Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

Professor Charles studies election law, race and law, and constitutional law, and directs the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race and Justice at Harvard. He is co-editor of Race, Reform, and Regulation of the Electoral Process: Recurring Puzzles in American Democracy, and is at work on a new book, on which this lecture is based. This lecture is part of Public Interest Week 2021. It is also the Penn Program on Regulation’s 2021 Distinguished Regulation Lecture.

November 16: Black Families Matter: How the U.S. Family Regulation System Punishes Poor People of Color

Dorothy Roberts, George A. Weiss University Professor of Law and Sociology and the Raymond Pace and Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander Professor of Civil Rights, University of Pennsylvania

Professor Roberts is a Penn Integrates Knowledge Professor and the founding director of the Program on Race, Science & Society at the University of Pennsylvania. The author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare, her latest book, Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—And How Abolition Can Build a Safer World, will be released in 2022.

December 7: How Race and Social Inequalities Influence Healthy People’s Paid Participation in FDA-Required Clinical Trials

Jill A. Fisher, Professor of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Professor Fisher’s work explores how social inequalities are produced or exploited by commercialized medicine in the United States, especially in the conduct of clinical trials. Her talk will build on insights from her award-winning book, Adverse Events: Race, Inequality, and the Testing of New Pharmaceuticals.

PAC-12 Access to Justice Series features race and immigration scholars

The PAC-12 offers more than sports. This fall it will offer a speaker series around the theme "access to justice." Among the many important topics is a talk on Responding to the Humantarian Crisis in Afghanistan (September 28) and The Limits of Universal Representation for Immigrants (November 30). Registration links for the first two talks now posted; others will be added during the series.

September 21

Jody Armour
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
Negrophobia and Reasonable Racism: Race, Language, Unequal Justice, and the Law

September 28

David Oppenheimer
University of California Berkeley School of Law
Responding to the Humanitarian Crisis in Afghanistan

October 5

Margaret Hagan
Stanford University Law School
Justice Innovation

October 12

Anna Carpenter
University of Utah S.J. Quinney College of Law
Judges in Lawyerless Courts

October 19

Stacy Butler and Christopher Griffin
University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law
Developing and Simulating Non-Lawyer Models of Medical Debt Advocacy

October 26

Scott Skinner-Thompson
University of Colorado Law School
Identity By Committee

November 2

Laura Gomez
University of California Los Angeles School of Law
Inventing Latinos: A New Story of American Racism

November 9

Justin Weinstein-Tull
Arizona State University Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law
Title coming soon

November 16

Kimberly Johnson
University of Oregon School of Law
This is My America: Stories, Storytelling and Access to Justice

November 30

Angélica Cházaro
University of Washington School of Law
Due Process Deportations? The Limits of Universal Representation for Immigrants

 MHC

AILA University Video Roundtable on Strategic Considerations in the Wake of Niz-Chavez, September 17, 2021

AILA is hosting a Video Roundtable on September 17, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. ET on Strategic Considerations in the Wake of Niz-Chavez. More information about this free training is available here.

In Niz-Chavez v. Garland, 141 S. Ct. 1474 (2021), the Court held that a defective Notice to Appear that does not include the time and/or place of the removal hearing does not trigger the stop-time rule for cancellation of removal, even when the immigration court later serves a notice of hearing with the required information.

This Roundtable will cover the following topics and includes several excellent discussion leaders, including frequent immprof blogger Geoffrey Hoffman:

Discussion Topics:

• Challenging Defective Notices to Appear
• Accrual of 10 Years of Physical Presence, Including Pre– and Post-Final Orders of Removal
• Qualifying Relatives: Aged-Out Children and Deceased Parents and Spouses

Discussion Leaders:

• Caroline Walters (DL), Senior Attorney, American Immigration Council, Washington, DC
• Mark Barr, AILA Federal Court Litigation Section Steering Committee/AILA Amicus Committee, Denver, CO
• Dr. Alicia Triche, AILA Federal Court Litigation Section Steering Committee, Memphis, TN
• Geoffrey Hoffman, Houston, TX
• Trina Realmuto, Brookline, MA

IE

UC Hastings Conference on Violence Against AAPIs

Please UC Hastings Law for an upcoming virtual conference investigating systemic and historic causes of anti-AAPI violence, Connecting the Threads that Bind: Contextualizing Legalize Violence Against Asian Americans. 

Panelists will provide frameworks for understanding the continued subordination of AAPI and BIPOC communities and discuss AAPI-led advocacy and reforms to address the root causes of AAPI violence and disenfranchisement.  Throughout the conference, we will hear from prominent scholars, critical race theorists, poets, activists, and movement lawyers from across the country working on issues related to AAPI violence.  

Please click here for more information and event registration.

The event features, among others: Michael Omi, Lorraine Bannai, Shelley Lee, Khaled Beydoun, Vinay Harpalani, Carol Izumi, Deepa Iyer, Bill Tamayo, Eunice Lee, Stephen Lee, Ming Hsu Chen, Jason Wu, Cynthia Choi, Eddy Zheng, Zohra Ahmed, Michael Chang, and Frank Wu.  There will also be poetry readings from acclaimed poets Russell Leong and Julian Aguon.  

MHC

Biden’s Asylum Process Proposal Could Cut Wait Times By Years

Ediberto Roman is a fan of the Biden administration's recent asylum proposal.  Check out his commentary in Bloomberg Law.

KJ

 

CFP American University L Rev Symposium on Race and Youth Injustice

The American University Washington Law Review will hold its annual symposium on “The Impact of Race on Youth [in]Justice: A Closer Look at Young People of Color and the Legal System.” The Law Review is placing a call for submissions. The Symposium takes place on Friday, February 4, 2022. 

The law review provides additional description of their topic and suggested topic areas that include Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and DACA.

Traditionally, we dedicate our Annual Symposium to exploring a burgeoning area in the legal field; young people, particularly young people of color, often have decisions made for them through legal systems every day. AULR is placing a call for submissions—including legal articles and other scholarly commentaries related to this topic—for publication and potential discussion at its February 2022 Annual Symposium.

Suggested Topic Areas

Aging out of Foster Care
Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals
Disparate Sentencing in the Juvenile Legal System
Disproportionate Minority Contact in the Juvenile Legal System
Family Separations at the Border
Housing Disparity Impacts on Youth
Policies that Lead to Foster Care Involvement
School Segregation
Special Immigrant Juvenile Status
The School to Prison Pipeline
Transgender Youth of Color

Important Dates
December 1, 2021: Draft Manuscript Submission Date (to keep production
on schedule, the Law Review must receive a draft of your manuscript by this
date. This will allow us the necessary time to review the piece and prepare
your publication agreement)

January 11, 2022: Final Manuscript Submission Date (Tentative)

February 4, 2022 Inperson conference (live-streamed)

MHC (h/t Jayesh Rathod)

Cornell webinar on race, migration, politics (August 12, 2021)

Cornell's Migrations initiative will host a webinar titled "Dissecting Discrimination: The Living Legacy of Migration, Race, and Politics" on Thursday, August 12, 1 p.m. (EDT)

Click Here to Register

In this webinar, Cornell faculty across several disciplines will discuss the relationship between migration and race-based discrimination, from the earliest forced movement of enslaved peoples to nations built on excluding or extracting from particular racial/ethnic groups. Through the lens of colonialism and conquest, they’ll examine the ways in which migrant discrimination is preserved today and how to address it.

Speakers include:  

• Moderator Stephen Yale-Loehr, Professor of Immigration Law Practice, Cornell Law School
• Gerard Aching, Professor, Co-Director, and Faculty Fellow, Cornell University College of Arts & Sciences
• Shannon Gleeson, Professor of Labor Relations, Law, and History, ILR School; Co-Chair of the Migrations Initiative Taskforce, Cornell University
• Wendy Wolford, Vice Provost for International Affairs; Robert A. and Ruth E. Polson Professor of Global Development, Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences

The Cornell Migrations initiative studies the nexus among racism, dispossession, and migration by cultivating dialogue and creative interdisciplinary collaboration.

Immigration Law and Policy Conference virtual event (September 27-28, 2021)

The Migration Policy Institute, Catholic Legal Immigration Network, and Georgetown University Law Center will jointly host the 18th annual Immigration Law and Policy Conference. It will be a virtual event over two half-days on September 27 and 28. The conference will feature thoughtful policy and legal analysis, and discussion of the most important immigration topics from leading government officials, attorneys, policymakers, researchers, advocates, and others. (Video and a program from the 17th annual conference in 2020 is online.)

Registration procedures to be updated here; questions can be directed to events@migrationpolicy.org.

MHC

The UN Refugee Convention at 70 and Rights for Displaced People Today

The UN Refugee Convention at 70 and Rights for Displaced People Today The 1951 Refugee Convention is a landmark international treaty that defines what it means to be a refugee, as well as the rights of—and legal obligations toward—people who have been forcibly displaced across borders. But seventy years on, the Convention deserves scrutiny, as the world grapples with new drivers of mass displacement. Refugees International invites you to a conversation on the seventieth anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention. How are governments interpreting their obligations under the Convention today? Does the Convention adequately address forced displacement resulting from natural hazards, often exacerbated by climate change, gang violence, gender-based violence, and trafficking? Should governments and international organizations be doing more to protect people forced to flee their homes and by what means? How can displaced people themselves be more meaningfully included in decision-making on these issues?   U.S. Representative Joseph D. Neguse will offer introductory remarks. Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and Senior Advisor, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State, will deliver a keynote address. He will then join Mustafa Alio and Rez Gardi, co-leads of Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table (R-SEAT), Refugees International’s President Eric Schwartz, and U.S. Senior Advocate Yael Schacher for a panel discussion. An audience Q&A will follow. Tuesday July 27, 2021 1:00 to 2:00 pm ET Speakers Introductory Remarks U.S. Representative Joseph D. Neguse, co-chair of the Refugee Caucus and Vice Chair of the Immigration Subcommittee Keynote  Harold Hongju Koh, Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School and Senior Advisor, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State. Moderator Eric Schwartz, president of Refugees International Speakers Mustafa Alio, co-managing director of Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table (R-SEAT) Rez Gardi, co-managing director of Refugees Seeking Equal Access at the Table (R-SEAT) Yael Schacher, U.S. senior advocate at Refugees International

Panel Discussion on July 23, 2021: The Future of the Immigration Courts

Join Marshall Project Contributing Writer Julia Preston and Immigration Judge Amiena Khan for what promises to be a very interesting discussion about the future of the immigration courts, this Friday at 1 p.m. Eastern.

Registration information is available here.

IE

Emma Dabiri speaking in Cornell Migrations Summer Institute

 Emma Dabiri: The World We Became

Jul 22, 2021 11:00 AM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

ONE OF THE BBC’S BROADCASTING STARS OF THE FUTURE, EMMA DABIRI IS A PRESENTER, SOCIAL HISTORIAN AND WRITER.
Mapping race, colonialism, and hair, Emma will guide us through the geometries and fractals of African-diaspora braiding and cartography. Her latest documentary Hair Power: Me and My Afro (Channel 4) asks some of the most important questions facing the Black British population - and how it is that hair became one of the most misunderstood, celebrated and debated aspects of the black experience. Emma co-presents Britain’s Lost Masterpieces on BBC 4 and Virtually History on YouTube Originals, Back in Time for Brixton and the Back in Time Confectioners series (BBC Two), Is Love Racist? (Channel 4) and has made a number of social history films for The One Show (BBC).

All keynotes are open to the public, and we hope to post these recordings to our website.

Register here. Please email Tatiana Eshelman <lee43@cornell.edu>, if you are interested

CFP: Business Accountability for Human Rights: Addressing Human Rights Issues in Global Supply Chains

The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law is pleased to announce a call for papers to be presented in the course of its October 2021 conference on Business Accountability for Human Rights: Addressing Human Rights Issues in Global Supply Chains. The conference will bring together government officials, business people, lawyers, scholars, and representatives of faith traditions to explore human rights issues in global supply chains. The program will feature discussions of overarching challenges, cross-sector commitments to eliminating human rights violations, the benefits and costs of transnational regulation, ESG strategies, and financial issues. Specific topics will include subjects such as supply chain management, leading technologies, public/private partnerships, and emerging standards of human rights compliance. We welcome paper presentations from scholars in law, business or religion, as well as in other disciplines involving the study of matters germane to business accountability for human rights in global supply chains. The conference website may be found here.

SUBMIT ABSTRACTS FOR CONSIDERATION

If you are interested in presenting a paper at the Conference, please submit a working title and abstract of 200-300 words by September 10, 2021. Abstracts should pertain to works in progress or at least begun by the author, but they need not be completed papers. We hope to award travel stipends available to the authors of the three abstracts that score highest in the selection process. We will notify authors about acceptances by September 21, 2021.

To submit abstracts for consideration, please click here. Contact Professor Sarah Duggin - Director, Catholic Law Compliance, Investigations and Corporate Responsibility Program, about any questions at duggin@law.edu.

-KitJ

 

Call for Papers: IOM Research Partnership

As the UN Migration Agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) undertakes
research to inform migration policy and practice. The Migration Research Division is based at IOM Headquarters has the institutional responsibility for supporting the conduct and management of applied research on salient migration topics.

IOM may conduct research on its own, and/or in collaboration with other researchers and institutions, and/or commission other
researchers and institutions to conduct research on its behalf. It's current call for papers is being issued to identify research institutions, centers, programmes and think tanks that may be interested in consulting with IOM on migration research projects.

Thematic areas include:

• Migration data, trends and statistics
• Drivers of migration;
• Migration and development;
•  Irregular migration;
• Migrant smuggling and human trafficking;
• Labour migration;
• Diaspora;
• Remittances;
• Migrant integration;
• Return migration and reintegration;
• Public perceptions of migration;
• Displacement and forced migration.
• Migration and health 
• Children in migration
• Family migration
• Migrant rights
• Migration policy & Law

Selected institutions will be registered in IOM’s Research Partners Panel, which will be made available to all IOM Regional and Country offices as a valuable information resource. To apply, complete this form. The full call for expressions of interest appears here. 

MHC

Call For Papers--AALS 2022, New Voices in Immigration Law

CALL FOR PAPERS
“New Voices in Immigration Law”
Association of American Law Schools · Section on Immigration Law
Friday, January 7, 4:45-6:00PM Eastern · Virtual

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2021

The Section on Immigration Law of the Association of American Law Schools invites papers and works in progress for its “New Voices in Immigration Law” session at the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting which will take place virtually January 5-9, 2022. This session has not yet been scheduled. We will send updated information when we have it.

This session will be structured as a works-in-progress discussion, rather than as a panel. Selected papers will be discussed in turn, with time for author comments, thoughts from a lead reader, and group discussion.

Submissions may address any aspect of immigration and citizenship law. We also welcome papers that explore these topics from alternative disciplines or perspectives.

Please note that individuals presenting at the program are responsible for their own annual meeting registration fee, though AALS anticipates offering school memberships to the virtual conference again this year.

Submission Guidelines: The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2021. Feel free to submit an abstract, a précis, or a work-in-progress. Priority will be given to individuals who have never presented an immigration law paper at the AALS Annual Meeting, works not yet published or submitted for publication, and junior scholars.

Please email submissions in Microsoft Word format to profkitjohnson at gmail.com (Subject: AALS 2022: New Voices in Immigration Law). In your email, please indicate how you meet our selection priorities.

Inquiries: Please direct any questions or inquiries to Kit Johnson (profkitjohnson at gmail.com).

-KitJ

Advocacy in Immigration Matters Public Service Program application

CLINIC and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA) are partnering for the sixth year to offer the “Advocacy in Immigration Matters” Public Service Program, an online “learning by doing” training for attorneys and fully accredited representatives who work full-time at non-profit organizations. This training will benefit immigrant rights advocates who have limited immigration court advocacy and want to establish a solid foundation in litigation skills through an intensive training experience with meaningful feedback from experienced litigators and seasoned immigration practitioners, including a retired immigration judge.

The training will take place on Tuesday, August 17th from 2-3:30 p.m. ET and August 18, 2021 - August 20, 2021 from 12:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET each day.

To learn more about this training and access the application here. CLINIC will choose 28 participants with a maximum of four participants from the same non-profit organization. CLINIC will prioritize applicants who are based in California and work for non-profits funded by the California Department of Social Services. 

Important Dates

July 19, 2021: Please submit the online application by 11:59 p.m. ET.

July 20, 2021: CLINIC will select participants and inform applicants of their application status by 11:59 p.m. ET.

August 3, 2021: If selected, submit the $500 tuition fee (not applicable to CDSS network applicants) and sign a certification affirming 1. full-time employment at a non-profit organization where your exclusive focus is on immigration cases, and 2. an understanding of the attendance expectations.

For questions, follow up with Michelle Mendez.

MHC 

Report on Electronic Ankle Bracelets as Alternative to Detention - webinar today

Freedom for Immigrants, the Immigrant Defense Project, and the Kathryn O. Greenberg Immigration Justice Clinic at Cardozo School of Law today released a new report, Immigration Cyber Prisons: Ending the Use of Electronic Ankle Shackles. The report highlights the severe harms caused by ICE’s electronic ankle shackling program. It is the first empirical study to document the nature and scale of the harms, racial disparities and lack of efficacy of the program, using data from legal service providers regarding almost 1,000 immigrant clients, about 150 survey responses from directly-impacted people, and several long-form interviews with people who wished to share experiences with ankle shackling. The Guardian ran a story about the findings this morning.

Some key findings include:

• Over 90% of people experienced physical harm due to the ankle shackle, and those harms included: open wounds even causing permanent scars, excessive heat, and electrical shocks. 
• The psychological consequences are also extremely negative. The constant sight and feel of a shackle around one’s ankle is agonizing, and possibly retraumatizing to people who were fleeing persecution. 88% of survey participants reported the shackles harmed their mental health, and an alarming 12% of immigrants reported suicidal thoughts. 
• The stigma associated with shackling results in social isolation and financial hardship--78% of respondents reported financial hardship as a result of ankle shackling, including over two-thirds of respondents who reported that they lost or had difficulty obtaining work as a result of their electronic ankle shackle. 
• Finally, our study found that Black immigrants were disproportionately subjected to ankle shackles by ICE. Black immigrants were represented in the shackled cohort at more than twice the rate of their representation in the non-shackled cohort.

We hope that the report will be useful to illustrate to judges and policymakers that electronic ankle shackling is harmful to people, and that effective supportive services are available instead.

Today at 2 PM EDT we also are sharing the report with calls to action to Congressional and policy leaders. If you would like to amplify that request, please join the Twitter storm using the link below.

MHC

Conference Announcement: CSLSA Registration Now Open

Who's ready for an IN PERSON conference? You are!

The Central States Law Schools Association 2021 Scholarship Conference will be held September 24-26, 2021 at Washburn University School of Law in Topeka, Kansas. Law faculty from across the country are invited to present papers or works in progress.

The conference is not subject specific, but usually includes panels on immigration, international law, and criminal law. From experience, I can report that CSLSA provides a friendly, intimate, and collegial setting in which to present scholarship. It's open to both junior and senior scholars.

You can click here to register. And registration is free! The deadline for submitting your registration is August 7, 2021.

-KitJ

Call For Papers--AALS 2022, New Voices in Immigration Law

CALL FOR PAPERS
“New Voices in Immigration Law”
Association of American Law Schools · Section on Immigration Law
Wednesday, January 5 – Sunday, January 9 (session timing TBD) · Virtual

Submission Deadline: August 15, 2021

The Section on Immigration Law of the Association of American Law Schools invites papers and works in progress for its “New Voices in Immigration Law” session at the 2022 AALS Annual Meeting which will take place virtually January 5-9, 2022. This session has not yet been scheduled. We will send updated information when we have it.

This session will be structured as a works-in-progress discussion, rather than as a panel. Selected papers will be discussed in turn, with time for author comments, thoughts from a lead reader, and group discussion.

Submissions may address any aspect of immigration and citizenship law. We also welcome papers that explore these topics from alternative disciplines or perspectives.

Please note that individuals presenting at the program are responsible for their own annual meeting registration fee, though AALS anticipates offering school memberships to the virtual conference again this year.

Submission Guidelines: The deadline for submissions is August 15, 2021. Feel free to submit an abstract, a précis, or a work-in-progress. Priority will be given to individuals who have never presented an immigration law paper at the AALS Annual Meeting, works not yet published or submitted for publication, and junior scholars.

Please email submissions in Microsoft Word format to profkitjohnson at gmail.com (Subject: AALS 2022: New Voices in Immigration Law). In your email, please indicate how you meet our selection priorities.

Inquiries: Please direct any questions or inquiries to Kit Johnson (profkitjohnson at gmail.com).

-KitJ