Call for Papers: AALS 2014 Program on Families and Immigration
The AALS Sections on Immigration Law and Family and Juvenile Law invite papers fortheir joint program on “Families and Immigration Law” for the 2014 Annual Meeting.
The program will explore the complex interactions between family policy and family lawand immigration, citizenship, and asylum law. Family ties are often central to individual rightsand status under federal immigration law, yet Congress has established unique definitions andlimitations on the family relationships considered for these purposes, and many aspects ofimmigration law serve to undermine rather than foster family ties. For many people, then,immigration law is constitutive of the family. Beyond immigration law, numerous federal andstate laws (including so called “alienage” laws) classify on the basis of immigration or citizenshipstatus, in ways that increase the vulnerability of family members. The unique problems offamilies with complex nationality or immigration status have been largely invisible to themainstream of family law.
Papers may be submitted on topics such as families and citizenship, marriage and familymigration, child migration, the legal circumstances of immigrant and mixed-status families, theDefense of Marriage Act (DOMA), and the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA)policy.
The sections expect to select two papers from this call for papers in the joint program.
The presenters will join two invited speakers: Kerry Abrams, from the University of VirginiaSchool of Law, and Jennifer Chacón of the University of California-Irvine School of Law.Please note that we will reserve one of the two positions for a paper written by a junior scholar,defined for this purpose as an individual who has been a full-time law teacher for six years orless.
Eligibility: Full-time faculty members of AALS member law schools are eligible to submitpapers. Pursuant to AALS rules, faculty at fee-paid law schools, foreign faculty, adjunct andvisiting 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 facultymembers presenting at the program are responsible for paying their own Annual Meetingregistration fee and travel expenses.
Submission: Papers (rather than abstracts) should be submitted to the program committee nolater than August 15, 2013, and the papers to be presented will be selected based on ananonymous review by the section’s program committee by September 15. Please sendsubmissions to melanie-stutzman@uiowa.edu. In order to facilitate anonymous review, pleaseidentify yourself and your institutional affiliation only in the cover letter or email accompanyingyour manuscript, and not in the manuscript itself. (If you wish to be considered for the juniorscholar slot on the panel, please indicated this in your cover letter.)
Inquiries: Questions regarding the program may be directed to: Ann Estin (for the Family &Juvenile Law Section) at ann-estin@uiowa.edu, or Muneer Ahmad (for the Immigration LawSection) at muneer.ahmad@yale.edu.