Immprofs at CSLSA

The Central States Law Schools Association annual meeting took place at Southern Illinois Law School in Carbondale, IL this past weekend. The conference is not subject specific, which offers the chance for feedback from scholars outside our immprof bubble. But Geoffery Heeren (Valpariso) was present to help provide an immprof perspective!

Geoff presented his developing work Crimmigration in Gangland: Race, Crime, and Removal during the Prohibition Era. It’s the first piece to see the prohibition era as historically important in the development of the convergence of immigration and criminal law. It’s a fascinating piece of legal history that’s sure to inform the crimmigration field.

I presented on my work Immigration Commodification. Immigration scholars have challenged specific immigration proposals on the basis that they commodify immigrants. I aim to bring the rich commodification literature to the immprof community in order to facilitate more nuanced conversation around the topic.

-KitJ