The Refugee Act of 1980: A Forlorn Anniversary

In their article, The “Free White Person” Clause of the Naturalization Act of 1790 as Super-Statute, Gabriel J. Chin and Paul Finkelman make a...

The United States has granted reparations for a variety of historical injustices, from imprisonment of Japanese Americans during the Second World War...

The nascent field of comparative migration law can do more than classify different approaches to migration law; it is well-positioned to address...

The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Immigration Law is perhaps the first book-length treatment of the subject of comparative immigration law. The...

Over the past twenty-five years, a growing number of European countries have enacted laws granting citizenship to individuals and their descendants...

A growing experimental literature suggests that international law appears to have a larger impact on public opinion than constitutional law. Because...

Human rights discourse has become central to the global debates about treatment of and solutions for refugees and displaced persons. Following the...

In theory, birthright citizenship has been well established in U.S. law since 1898, when the Supreme Court held in United States v. Wong Kim Ark that...

Citizenship is invaluable, yet our status as citizens is always at risk—even for those born on US soil.

Over the last two centuries, the US government...

This essay presents, in lightly revised form, the Henry J. Miller Distinguished Lecture delivered at Georgia State University College of Law in...

Denaturalization is back. In 1967, the Supreme Court declared that denaturalization for any reason other than fraud or mistake in the naturalization...

This chapter will tell the legal, historical, and political tale of two major immigration cases decided by the U.S. Supreme Court during President...

Donald Trump's lawyers are seeking to defend his ban on travel from six Muslim majority countries. Today, oral argument will be heard by the Fourth...

No one was surprised by the Supreme Court’s unanimous decision in Maslenjak v. United States, which held that the government cannot revoke citizenship...

This Essay describes the legal and policy issues raised by any systematic effort to deport unauthorized immigrants based on information the government...

Yesterday, a diverse group of leading constitutional law scholars—representing many different views about the Establishment Clause—filed an amicus...

President Trump nominated Judge Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court just over seven weeks ago. Since then, pundits have been trying to convince us that...