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Panel Two: Should There Be Remote Public Access To Court Filings In Immigration Cases?, The Honorable Robert Hinkle, David Mccraw, Daniel Kanstroom, Eleanor Acer Feb 2012

Panel Two: Should There Be Remote Public Access To Court Filings In Immigration Cases?, The Honorable Robert Hinkle, David Mccraw, Daniel Kanstroom, Eleanor Acer

Daniel Kanstroom

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Introduction: Law, Torture, And The “Task Of The Good Lawyer” – Mukasey Agonistes , Daniel Kanstroom Nov 2011

Introduction: Law, Torture, And The “Task Of The Good Lawyer” – Mukasey Agonistes , Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

Following September 11, 2001, there was a challenge to the role of law as a regulator of military action and executive power. Government lawyers produced legal interpretations designed to authorize, legitimize, and facilitate interrogation tactics widely considered to be illegal. This raises a fundamental question: how should law respond to such flawed interpretation and its consequences, even if the ends might have seemed necessary or just? This Symposium examines deep tensions between competing visions of the rule of law and the role of lawyers. Spurred by a controversy over the selection of then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey as commencement speaker, the …


On “Waterboarding”: Legal Interpretation And The Continuing Struggle For Human Rights , Daniel Kanstroom Nov 2011

On “Waterboarding”: Legal Interpretation And The Continuing Struggle For Human Rights , Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

While some aspects of the “waterboarding” debate are largely political, the practice also implicates deeply normative underpinnings of human rights and law. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has steadfastly declined to declare waterboarding illegal or to launch an investigation into past waterboarding. His equivocations have generated anguished controversy because they raise a fundamental question: should we balance “heinousness and cruelty” against information that we “might get”? Mr. Mukasey’s approach appears to be careful lawyering. However, it portends a radical and dangerous departure from a fundamental premise of human rights law: the inherent dignity of each person. Although there is some lack …


Deportation, Social Control, And Punishment: Some Thoughts About Why Hard Laws Make Bad Cases, Daniel Kanstroom Nov 2011

Deportation, Social Control, And Punishment: Some Thoughts About Why Hard Laws Make Bad Cases, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

From the Author’s Introduction: We live in a time of unusual vigor, efficiency, and strictness in the deportation of long-term permanent resident aliens convicted of crimes. This situation is the result of some fifteen years of relatively sustained attention to this issue, which culminated in two exceptionally harsh laws: the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 (AEDPA) and the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 (IIRIRA). In many cases, these laws have brought about a rather complete convergence between the criminal justice and deportation systems. Deportation is now often a virtually automatic consequence of criminal …


America Goes Global, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 2003

America Goes Global, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Stories From Immigration Practice, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 2003

Stories From Immigration Practice, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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"Unlawful Combatants' In The United States: Drawing The Fine Line Between Law And War, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 2002

"Unlawful Combatants' In The United States: Drawing The Fine Line Between Law And War, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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St. Cyr Or Insincere: The Strange Quality Of Supreme Court Victory, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 2001

St. Cyr Or Insincere: The Strange Quality Of Supreme Court Victory, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Introduction, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 2000

Introduction, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Surrounding The Hole In The Doughnut: Discretion And Deference In U.S. Immigration Law, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 1996

Surrounding The Hole In The Doughnut: Discretion And Deference In U.S. Immigration Law, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Wer Sind Wir Wieder? Laws Of Asylum, Immigration, And Citizenship In The Struggle For The Soul Of The New Germany, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 1992

Wer Sind Wir Wieder? Laws Of Asylum, Immigration, And Citizenship In The Struggle For The Soul Of The New Germany, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Hello Darkness: Involuntary Testimony And Science As Evidence In Deportation Proceedings, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 1989

Hello Darkness: Involuntary Testimony And Science As Evidence In Deportation Proceedings, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

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Judicial Review Of Amnesty Denials: Must Aliens Bet Their Lives To Get Into Court?, Daniel Kanstroom Dec 1989

Judicial Review Of Amnesty Denials: Must Aliens Bet Their Lives To Get Into Court?, Daniel Kanstroom

Daniel Kanstroom

No abstract provided.