Open-Access Crimmigration Casebook & Statutory Supplement

Introducing Crimmigration Law: An Open Casebook and its partner Crimmigration Law: Statutory Supplement 2024. These are new open-source/open-access teaching materials designed for a course on, naturally, crimmigration.

The casebook includes explanations and primary source readings regarding U.S. immigration law, the immigration consequences of criminal conduct, immigration detention, noncitizens in the criminal justice system, federal immigration crimes, states and immigration, border enforcement, and interior immigration enforcement. Most sections begin with a brief history of the topic and end with problems to test students’ knowledge.

The statutory supplement includes those portions of the United States code that concern the intersection of immigration with criminal law and procedure.

You can download .pdf and .docx versions of the documents at the links above. Paperback copies are also available on Amazon, where the casebook is currently priced at$11.53 and the statutory supplement is currently priced at $4.73.

The books have a Creative Commons license that allows adopters to add to, delete from, abridge, rearrange, and alter the works as best fits their courses. (See “Notices” inside each book.) This means that the books can be a jumping-off point for your own bespoke course materials. You can take either 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 materials 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