CFP AALS 2025: Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Clash on Immigration Policy in a Second Presidential Term
Call for Papers
AALS Section on Immigration Law
January 7-11, 2025, AALS Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA)
The AALS Section on Immigration Law is pleased to announce a program titled Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism Clash on Immigration Policy in a Second Presidential Term during the 2025 AALS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA. The next presidential term will be a second term for the incumbent or his immediate predecessor. Either way, once again we are likely to see elected officials torn between nationalism and cosmopolitanism amid legislative stalemate about immigration policy. Courts are likely to be rapidly drawn into new and old battles about the treatment of noncitizens, ranging from questions of federalism to arrest and detention policy to access to the asylum system. Courts will have to wrestle with specific constitutional, statutory and administrative law questions, which may connect to broader unresolved questions. Do restrictionist approaches necessitate discrimination and cruelty? Do more open and welcoming approaches inherently lead to chaos and erosion of order? Which rights does the Constitution protect for all people, and which rights are guaranteed only for citizens? To what extent is preserving a particular racial or ethnic profile a legitimate government purpose?
A call for papers will be issued as part of this panel.
FORMAT: Scholars whose papers are selected will provide a presentation of their papers and participate in the panel discussion, followed by commentary and audience Q&A.
SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Scholars who are interested in participating in the program should send a draft or summary of at least three pages to Professor Fatma Marouf on or before September 1, 2024. The subject line of the email should read: “Submission—AALS 2025 Immigration Section CFP.”
Scholars whose papers are selected for the program will need to submit a draft by December 1, 2024.
Pursuant to AALS rules, faculty at fee-paid non-member law schools, foreign faculty, adjunct and visiting faculty (without a full-time position at an AALS member law school), graduate students, fellows, and non-law school faculty are not eligible to submit. Please note that all presenters at the program are responsible for paying their own annual meeting registration fees and travel expenses.