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Reforming Immigration Law To Allow More Foreign Student Entrepreneurs To Launch Job Creating Ventures In The United States, Anthony J. Luppino, John Norton, Malika Simmons Jan 2012

Reforming Immigration Law To Allow More Foreign Student Entrepreneurs To Launch Job Creating Ventures In The United States, Anthony J. Luppino, John Norton, Malika Simmons

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This paper outlines some of the barriers that foreign student entrepreneurs face, and describes how a somewhat expanded version of bipartisan legislation along the lines of the Startup Act 2.0 (S. 3217 or the Startup Act), cosponsored by Senators Jerry Moran (R-KS), Mark Warner (D-VA), Marco Rubio (R-FL), Chris Coons (D-DE), Roy Blunt (R-MO), and Scott Brown (R-MA), would help to address some of these roadblocks. The Startup Act, which has also been introduced in the House of Representatives on a bipartisan basis, as discussed below, would create a new conditional permanent resident status opportunity for foreign students who hold …


Further Considerations: Immigrant Entrepreneurs - Contributions And Challenges, Jayesh Rathod Jan 2012

Further Considerations: Immigrant Entrepreneurs - Contributions And Challenges, Jayesh Rathod

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An overview of the contributions made by immigrant entrepreneurs in the United States, and the challenges they face.


Undocumented Workers And Concepts Of Fault: Are Courts Engaged In Legitimate Decisionmaking, Christine N. Cimini Jan 2012

Undocumented Workers And Concepts Of Fault: Are Courts Engaged In Legitimate Decisionmaking, Christine N. Cimini

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This Article examines judicial decisionmaking in labor and employment cases involving undocumented workers. Labor and employment laws, designed to protect all workers regardless of immigration status, often conflict with immigration laws designed to deter the employment of undocumented workers. In the absence of clarity as to how these differing policy priorities should interact, courts are left to resolve the conflict. While existing case law appears to lack coherence, this Article identifies a uniform judicial reliance upon “fault-based” factors. This Article offers a structure to understand this developing body of law and evaluates the legitimacy of the fault-based decisionmaking modalities utilized …