New Forced Migration: Law and Policy Casebook

Dear Friends and Colleagues:

We are very pleased to let you know about our new casebook, which will be published by Thomson West in February or March 2007. Its title is Forced Migration: Law and Policy, and it includes materials on asylum, refugees, the Convention Against Torture, temporary protection schemes, and a variety of related topics. The principal focus is U.S. law and policy, but we have leavened the mix with comparative materials from a variety of countries. This new casebook is based on the chapter on refugees and asylum in the Immigration and Citizenship casebook that three of us have co-authored for some time. We have welcomed Maryellen Fullerton to our ranks for this project (and for the next edition of the Immigration and Citizenship casebook as well), and the four of us have drawn on that chapter for our Forced Migration volume. But as the title suggests, this new casebook not only significantly reorganizes and expands that material, but also reflects our effort to rethink the evolving conceptual architecture of this field. Though the published book won’t be available for a few months, we are announcing publication now in case you would be interested in using the page proofs for a spring semester course or seminar, or for course proposals for 2007-08 that may be due to your dean or curriculum committee in the winter months. The book is designed for use in a three-hour law school course, but with judicious paring can be readily used for a two-hour course or as the foundation of a seminar. We’ve set out the summary table of contents below. If you would like to see a copy of the detailed table of contents or the proofs (which we expect to make available as PDF files), please contact Hiroshi Motomura at motomura@email.unc .edu or 919-962-4126. Best wishes, David Martin Alex Aleinikoff Hiroshi Motomura Maryellen Fullerton

KJ