Fri Sep 16, 2016 by Anil Kalhan
DREXEL SYMPOSIUM: Twenty Years After the 1996 Immigration Laws: Revisiting an Experiment in Comprehensive Severity (Fri Oct 14 2016)
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Twenty Years After the 1996 Immigration Laws: Revisiting an Experiment in Comprehensive Severity
Friday, October 14, 2016
The 2016 Drexel Law Review Symposium will feature leading experts on immigration law and policy who will critically reassess three laws enacted by Congress in 1996: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act and the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act.
These statutes ushered in sweeping changes to immigration law. The legislation dramatically expanded the ground for deporting noncitizens and mandated greater use of detention, while curtailing procedural safeguards, eliminating avenues for discretionary relief from removal, and creating barriers for refugees seeking safety on a humanitarian basis. Many noncitizens also were rendered ineligible for public benefits. As a result, immigration control has grown into an enormous enterprise, with the United States now expelling unprecedented numbers of noncitizens each year.
With immigration again the subject of election-year controversy and with social movements and immigrant communities forcefully advocating reform, the 2016 Drexel Law Review Symposium will critically reassess this experiment in “comprehensive immigration severity.†Leading experts will examine the origins and operation of those laws and their broader legacy and significance. Speakers will also discuss visions and strategies for reform and the challenges that advocates face in pursuing those reforms.
Registration information available here.
Schedule
8:00–8:30 |
Registration and Light Breakfast |
8:30–8:45 |
Welcome and Introduction |
Roger Dennis, Founding Dean and Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law |
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Anil Kalhan, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law (@kalhan) |
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8:45–10:00 |
Panel One: The Origins and Consequences of Immigration Severity (I) |
Moderator: Jaya Ramji-Nogales, I. Herman Stern Professor of Law and Co-Director, Institute for International Law and Public Policy, Temple University Beasley School of Law |
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Expedited Exclusion and Credible Fear: The Unintended Consequences of a Reasonable Compromise |
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T. Alexander Aleinikoff, Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia Law School (@aaleinikoff) |
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Stealth Provisions of the 1996 Laws and Illusory Congressional Intent |
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Nancy Morawetz, Professor of Clinical Law, New York University School of Law |
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Material Support, Secret Evidence, and the National Security Implications of the 1996 Immigration Statutes |
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Wadie Said, Professor of Law, University of South Carolina School of Law |
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10:00–10:15 |
Break |
10:15–11:45 |
Panel Two: The Origins and Consequences of Immigration Severity (II) |
Moderator: Sarah Paoletti, Practice Professor of Law and Director, Transnational Law Clinic, University of Pennsylvania School of Law |
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Reflections on INS v. St. Cyr: Theory and Strategy in the Battle Over Judicial Review |
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Lucas Guttentag, Professor of the Practice of Law, Stanford Law School; Senior Research Scholar in Law, Robina Foundation Visiting Human Rights Fellow, and Lecturer in Law, Yale Law School; and Senior Counselor to the Secretary of Homeland Security, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |
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Undermining Asylum, Human Rights, and Efficient Processing: The 1996 Immigration Law’s Barriers to Asylum Twenty Years Later |
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Eleanor Acer, Senior Director, Refugee Protection, Human Rights First |
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Judging Immigration Equity: Proportionality and the Deportation System |
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Jason Cade, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Georgia School of Law |
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At the Border of Agency Expertise: Chevron Deference and the Immigration Consequences of Crimes |
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Rebecca Sharpless, Clinical Professor of Law, Director, Immigration Clinic, and Roger Schindler Fellow, University of Miami School of Law |
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11:45-12:00 |
Break |
12:00-1:15 |
Lunch and Keynote Speaker |
Backlash, Big Stakes and Bad Laws: How the Right Went for Broke and the Left Fought Back in the Fight over the 1996 Immigration Laws |
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Frank Sharry, Founder and Executive Director, America’s Voice (@FrankSharry) |
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1:15–1:30 |
Break |
1:30–3:00 |
Panel Three: Contemporary Strategies to Advance Immigrants’ Rights |
Moderator: Richard Frankel, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law |
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Using International Human Rights Law Strategies to Challenge the 1996 Immigration Statutes |
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Alison Parker, Director, U.S. Program, Human Rights Watch (@alisonHRW) |
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Campaigning for Immigrants’ Rights in Philadelphia |
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Helen Gym, Councilwoman At-Large, Philadelphia City Council (@HelenGym2015, @HelenGymAtLarge) |
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Building Through Bars: Challenging the Stigma of Criminality in Local Immigration Policies |
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Caitlin Barry, Assistant Professor of Law, Director, Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic, and Co-Director, Community Interpreter Internship Program, Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law |
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State DAPA? |
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Michael J. Wishnie, Deputy Dean for Experiential Education, William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law, and Director, Jerome N. Frank Legal Services Organization, Yale Law School (@MikeWishnie) |
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3:00–3:15 |
Break |
3:15–4:45 |
Panel Four: Rethinking Immigration Severity |
Moderator: Jennifer J. Lee, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, Temple University Beasley School of Law |
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Life After the Plea: Crime-Based Deportation and Post-Conviction Rehabilitative Relief 20 Years After IIRIRA |
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Annie Lai, Assistant Clinical Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law (@annie_lai1) |
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Dismantling the “Criminal Alien†Paradigm |
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Angélica Cházaro, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Washington School of Law |
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Liminal Legality and the 1996 Immigration Laws |
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Jennifer Chacón, Professor of Law, University of California, Irvine, School of Law |
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The Future Relief of Immigration Law |
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Jill E. Family, Commonwealth Professor of Law and Government and Director, Law and Government Institute, Widener University Commonwealth Law School (@widenerLG) |
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4:45-5:00 |
Closing Discussion |
Anil Kalhan, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law (@kalhan) |
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Richard Frankel, Associate Professor of Law, Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law |
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5:00–6:30 |
Reception |
Registration information available here: