Our #ClinicalLaw Program's 50th anniversary celebration wrapped with a conference exploring the next 50 years. Thanks to speakers Sameer Ashar Priya Baskaran, Gautam Hans, #DonnaLee , Rachel E. López, Alicia Plerhoples, #LisaWashington . Recovering Carceral Feminist-Ask Me How! >>law.umaryland.edu/content/articl…

Watch the conference video here>>youtu.be/79guU5gpxz8

This is one of my favorite things that I have written for a host of reasons. A key reason was getting to co-develop & co-write w/ Kristin Henning. Another was getting to meet Prof. Margaret E. Johnson Threads @margaretjohnson & Laila L. Hlass in the process. Thank you both for editing.

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🆕Today a new study by Rachel Leya Davidson Laila L. Hlass & Austin Kocher, PhD (forthcoming The Georgetown Law Journal) looking at 10yrs of #SIJS data & imm youth was released.

It shows the ballooning #SIJS backlog & urgent need to pass the Protect Vulnerable Immigrant Youth Act. ➡️ bit.ly/SIJS-study (1/4)

In our new article, the 'The Double Exclusion of Immigrant Youth', Laila L. Hlass, Rachel Leya Davidson, and I tell the inside story of how a program intended to protect vulnerable migrant youth makes their lives more uncertain.

Download it here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…

2 years ago Yalda Royan arrived after being evacuated from #Afghanistan .

Today, the #asylum case for this amazing women’s rights + #HumanRights activist remains pending.

We must act to meaningfully #WelcomeAfghanAllies + pass the #AfghanAdjustmentAct .

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Incredibly humbled & honored to join Legal Defense Fund as the Director of the Thurgood Marshall Institute. Looking forward to working with the Thurgood Marshall staff to harness the power of knowledge & research to drive systemic reforms to create a more just and equitable democratic society!

Calling all law clinicians— if you teach legal research in your seminar, you’ve got to check out this resource guide/toolkit! Keep your eyes peeled for some CLEA teaching justice to come too!!

As Bobbi-Jeanne Misick reports, Mr. Ernesto Rocha Cuarda had filed many grievances *and* filed a federal court case seeking release from detention. But the federal court case, like others filed by detained people in LA, languished for months. He died in detention, waiting for a ruling. 1/

Many have pointed out the galling juxtaposition of #Titan rescue efforts and the loss of #migrant lives at sea. My dear friend/colleague and I teamed up to try to write about it it. Thanks The Boston Globe for publishing. bostonglobe.com/2023/06/23/opi…

What a privilege to present my co-autored work with Tatiana Padilla on this panel with an awesome group of scholars doing such important work! Austin Kocher, PhD Rachel Leya Davidson Valeria Gomez Laila L. Hlass #LSA2023

Heading to the LSA? While you’re at the airport, download the iPhone app here (apps.apple.com/us/app/lsa-eve…), then navigate to the session on Legal Violence, Precarity, and Migrant Youth and give it a ⭐️STAR⭐️ to add it to your schedule!

#LSA Law and Society

Attending the Law and Society conference in San Juan this week? Please join us for this research session on Legal Violence, Precarity, and Migrant Youth.

Presenters include: Laila L. Hlass Rachel Leya Davidson Chiara Galli Valeria Gomez Rebecca Hamlin

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Big tech is increasingly complicit w/ ICE's expanding #surveillance & #deportation regime. Our clinic at Boston University School of Law is proud to partner w/ Just Futures Law to reveal 500+ admin subpoenas ICE has issued to Google, Meta & Twitter. Thank you Johana Bhuiyan for covering. thread 1/

I wrote this before yesterday's tragedy in TX, but it feels even more pressing now. Not only is being anti-immigrant a dangerous re-election strategy for President Biden, but it could have deadly consequences.
#asylum
#Border
#immigration
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BIG NEWS! 📢
We're hiring a Youth Organizer to build our base of empowered SIJS youth across the country advocating for an end to the backlog! #EndSIJSBacklog !
Learn more and apply 👉 bit.ly/2023-yo-jd

Presenting more than a year of writing and research w/Laila L. Hlass Austin Kocher, PhD Chiara Galli Valeria Gomez in San Juan in June. Can't wait for this work to be out in the world.

New conference presentation just dropped! 🎉

I'll be speaking at the LSA Law and Society conference in San Juan in June with Laila L. Hlass, Rachel Leya Davidson, Chiara Galli and Valeria Gomez, with Rebecca Hamlin commenting. 🤯

This is going to be a great sesh. ww5.aievolution.com/lsa2301/index.…

Articles include Jonathan Feingold's 'Ambivalent Advocates', describing how elite universities' are disincentivized from bringing the most compelling arguments for affirmative action, as well as Laila L. Hlass and Mary Yanik's powerful piece on the legal limits of immigrant detention.

Thrilled to share that my article, 'Immigration Detention Abolition and the Violence of Digital Cages' has found a home w/ the University of Colorado Law Review. Looking forward to working with their stellar students to publish this piece. #abolition #immigration papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…