Immigration Battle in American Courts

Informationen zum Autor Anna O. Law is an Assistant Professor at DePaul University. She previously served as a Program Analyst at the United States Commission on Immigration Reform - a bipartisan, congressional blue ribbon panel charged with making policy recommendations to Congress and the White House. She was also an expert commentator in an award-winning documentary about the Supreme Court that aired on PBS channels nationwide in 2007. Her articles have appeared in the Journal of American Ethnic History and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Klappentext Traces the institutional evolution of the Supreme Court and the US Courts of Appeals by assessing how each court has treated immigration cases over time. Zusammenfassung Traces the institutional evolution of the Supreme Court and the US Courts of Appeals as illustrated in immigration cases. Law argues that the division of labor that has developed in the way cases are adjudicated by each court has significant consequences for the success of immigrant litigants at each level. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. How do we know what we know?; 3. The rise of two courts with differentiated functions; 4. Interstial policy making in the US Courts of Appeals; 5. Institutional growth and innovation; 6. Continuity amidst change; 7. Conclusion; Appendices.

Product details

• Authors: Anna Law, Anna O. Law
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.06.2010
• EAN: 9780521767088
• ISBN: 978-0-521-76708-8
• No. of pages: 282
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, USA, Law, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, Politics & government, immigration law, United States of America, USA, Civics and citizenship