Immigration Law: An Open Casebook — Version 2.0

I am pleased to announce that the new edition of Immigration Law: An Open Casebook is now available. It can be downloaded for free in .docx or .pdf form at this site. Paperback versions are available at cost on Amazon, currently selling for $18.38.

The new version fixes typos/errors and clarifies certain explanations. You’ll also find an edited copy of the May 2023 9th Circuit opinion of United States v. Carillo-Lopez at section 13.6.

The book is the first open-source/open-access casebook on U.S. immigration law. It is designed to serve as the principal text for a broad-based immigration law course as well as a specialty course on crimmigration. The book provides explanations and primary source readings regarding immigration law in the United States. Topics include the constitutional bases for regulating immigration, the contours of the immigration bureaucracy, the admission of immigrants and nonimmigrants into the United States, undocumented migration, the deportation and exclusion of noncitizens, refugee and asylum law, immigration detention, federal and state immigration crimes, border and interior immigration enforcement, and the law concerning citizenship and naturalization.

The book has a Creative Commons license that allows adopters to add to, delete from, abridge, rearrange, and alter the work as best fits their courses. (See “Notices” inside the book.) This means that the book can be a jumping-off point for your own bespoke course materials. You can take this book in its .docx format and pull it apart, re-arrange it into the order you prefer, and add/delete materials. In the end, you’ll have a book tailored to your specific class, that you’re happy with, at a fraction of the effort because you’re not starting from scratch!

Questions? Adopting the book? Email kit.johnson at ou.edu.

-KitJ