Jenny-Brooke Condon's article The Preempting of Equal Protection for Immigrants? analyzes important issues surrounding the constitutional rights of immigrants. Professor Condon in essence contends that the current legislative, executive, and scholarly focus on the distribution of immigration power between the state and federal governments has undermined the Equal Protection rights of legal immigrants in the United States.
A little over a week ago, an equally divided Supreme Court left intact a lower court injunction barring the implementation of a major immigration initiative of the Obama administration. The program and litigation had proven to be controversial.
Faculty members at UC Davis School of Law publish truly unique scholarship that advances the legal profession. You can view their scholarly works via the Social Science Research Network (SSRN) Legal Scholarship Network. An archive can be found on this web page.
What follows here is the most recent collection of papers.
The 2015 Term of the Supreme Court just ended. Next Term. the Supreme Court will review two potentially significant immigration cases. Both implicate significant doctrinal issues of immigration law that have perplexed the courts for many years. The Solicitor General sought review of adverse lower court decisions in both cases.
I recently joined PublicSquare.net for a debate on its program Scholars Mate. The topic was U.S. v. Texas, a major Supreme Court case involving immigration and executive power.
Here is the video. Thanks to PublicSquare.net for the opportunity!
The U.S. Capitol Historical Society will hold its annual spring symposium, Congress and a Nation of Immigrants, 1790-1990: From the First Naturalization Act to the Simpson-Mazzoli Act, on May 5 and 6.
