Presenting Scholarship

Last year, I received a copy of the Virginia Journal, featuring an in-depth profile on the scholarly work of immprof Kerry Abrams. You can find it on pages 11-34 of the linked .pdf.

It’s exceedingly well done. It begins with an introduction to Abrams herself, how she got started on her scholarship path, a summary of her work, and how she views its importance. This introduction is followed by excerpts from her key articles as well as a bibliography.

I bring this piece to your attention not to highlight Abrams’ work – although it is interesting. Rather, I encourage you to see it as a model for you or your school to follow in creating a summary of your own body of scholarship.

Just this month, I received a similar write-up about the work of Prawf (but not immprof) John Inazu of Washington University. Inazu’s booklet was not produced by Wash U but by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture where he had been a visiting faculty member. Unfortunately, I could not find that booklet online, but I encourage you to contact John to see if he has extras to send your way. (He writes on the First Amendment’s Assembly Clause, FYI, and we could all use the occasional break immigration readings.)

I look forward to the flurry of scholarship summaries that will hopefully come my way!

-KitJ