The Junior Law and Politics Research Community is accepting proposals for its Fall 2023 seminar series! If you're a junior scholar studying law and politics and would like feedback on your work, this workshop is for you! Sign up below! tinyurl.com/16ixldoz

Everyone who visits the occupied territories comes away changed. This from TNC is must watch.

I’m beginning to realize even pretty high-info news consumers don’t know Congress is currently in the midst of negotiating a radically hawkish bill that’d be the biggest change to immigration law since 1996. If you follow me you know this but maybe your friends don’t? Tell em!

Come work at University of Massachusetts Legal Studies! nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Some #StateoftheUnion watchers were surprised to hear President Biden use the word “illegal” to describe an unauthorized immigrant accused of murder Rebecca Hamlin has detailed the battle over words in our Migration Information Source magazine: migrationpolicy.org/article/termin…

Wow wow wow SO excited to see this piece published today. Many thanks are owed: Carl Bon Tempo Rebecca Hamlin for their incredible research on this topic, of which I have BARELY begun to scratch the surface: thank you for taking the time to chat with me! 1/

Lovely piece by Lauren DeLaunay Miller for New Lines Magazine talking about the concept of a refugee. Was fun being interviewed for this! newlinesmag.com/essays/how-def…

If you study the politics of asylum and would be interested in contributing a chapter to a critical handbook on this topic, please reach out to me with some information about your area of focus. I want to cast a broad net and amplify junior ppl, scholars of color, Global South

In the latest Human Rights Quarterly, Rebecca Hamlin, Jamie Rowen, and Luz María Sánchez show the disconnect between the Colombian state's original goal to assist migrants with return as a form of reparation and displaced Colombians' goals for stability abroad. muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/…

UMass is hiring for a TT Asst Prof position in Legal Studies, jointly with the Commonwealth Honors College. Deadline 9/10. We are looking for someone with expertise on the criminal punishment system/carceral state in the US or US in comp perspective. nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

Six more weeks to apply to join the exciting Legal Studies program at UMass! Pass it on to anyone you think would be a good fit for an interdisciplinary, fast growing center for the study of Law & Society!

It’s August. And that means that Biden’s Title IX regulation is now in effect. And it required *all faculty* to become mandatory reporters. Survivor advocates opposed this change. Let me tell you why and what you can do about it in your classroom.

.Rebecca Hamlin looks at the causes driving the huge waves of migration globally, how these causes can interact and complicate one another, and the effects of government policies designed to stem it. thesgnl.com/2024/08/global… #migration #currentaffairsstrangeworld

I was invited by ⁦Shepherd.com 📚⁩ to make a list of what I think are the best books to really understand global migration. Check it out! shepherd.com/best-books/rea…

Call for papers: Recognizing Refugees. Join me and Cathryn Costello at University College Dublin on April 11 2025 for a workshop on Refugee Admission, Relocation and Recognition Practices in Comparative and Transnational Social Sciences. Details attached! dropbox.com/scl/fi/lihczkl…

The amazing Rebecca Hamlin and I are running a workshop for researchers, esp early career, UCD Sutherland School of Law in Dublin - see call for papers below - we welcome papers from politics, sociolegal studies, sociology on refugee admission and recognition practices - details below!

Deadline this Friday! Don’t forget to apply. 📣