Immigration Article of the Day: Immigration, Government Terror, and the Rule of Law by Paul Gowder

In Immigration, Government Terror, and the Rule of Law, 107 Iowa L. Rev. Online 94 (2022), Paul Gowder responds to immprof Stella Burch Elias’ earlier work Law as a Tool of Terror.

Paul reads Stella’s article in light of his own prior work concluding that “the concept of terror plays a central role in our understanding of the meaning and moral worth of the political and legal ideal known as ‘the rule of law.'” He goes on to argue that:

This theoretical importance suggests that Elias’s article can be put to use beyond its intended purposes, in a kind of two-way conceptual synthesis: filling out the theory of terror by drawing on the ways in which Elias illustrates terror using immigration policy, as well as filling out Elias’s critique of immigration policy by connecting it to a broader account of what terror is and why it is wrong.

Paul’s Iowa Law Review piece begins that task.

-KitJ