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ImmigrationProf Blog
BREAKING NEWS: Negusie v. Mukasey: Supreme Court Reverses Fifth Circuit and Remands
In an opinion issued today, the Supreme Court in Negusie v. Mukasey (for background, click here) held that“In this case the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) determined that the persecutor…
International Law Prof Blog
Seattle University Immigration Law Clinic Wins Case for Two Women from East Africa
Professor Laurel Oates of Seattle University School of Law and Adjunct Professor Monika Batra are featured with their students in the February issue of the National Jurist Magazine for their…
ImmigrationProf Blog
New Immigration Articles
Here are some of the latest immigration articles from the Social Science Research Network (www.ssrn.com):"'Death is Different' and a Refugee's Right to Counsel" JOHN R. MILLS (Cornell) KRISTEN ECHEMENDIA, (Cornell)…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Court Hears Asylum Case
The Supreme Court on Wednesday considered the fate of a former guard in an Eritrean prison where inmates were tortured and killed. An applicant for asylum, he has said he…
ImmigrationProf Blog
FGM Victims Talk
The Washington Post has a story about asylum-seekers who suffered actual or feared gemale gemnital mutilation: "The women's stories all begin with a searing childhood memory they cannot describe without…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Negusie v. Mukasey
SCOTUS Blog has briefs and other materials on the pending Supreme Court case of Negusie v. Mukasey, which will be argued this Term.The issue presented by the case is ahether…
ImmigrationProf Blog
An October (November) Surprise? Obama Aunt Asylum Seeker?
CNN reports that "A member of Barack Obama's Kenyan family living in the United States is facing a possible immigration issue: the Associated Press reports that an aunt he speaks…
International Law Prof Blog
U.S. Supreme Court to Decide If There is an Exception to the Persecutor Ban
The Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”) prohibits the Secretary of Homeland Security and the Attorney General of the United States from granting asylum to (or withholding removal of) a refugee…
International Law Prof Blog
Columbia Law School Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic Intervenes in Case Before the European Court of Human Rights
The Columbia Law School Sexuality and Gender Law Clinic was granted intervener status in a case pending before the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR). The case, M. v. United…
Family Law Prof Blog
News: Domestic Violence and Asylum
By Family Law
A press release from the CENTER FOR GENDER & REFUGEE STUDIES at UC-Hastings College of Law entitled " New Ruling by Attorney General Mukasey May Endanger Rights of Women Asylum…