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Cruelty - Rogerson.pdf
Reports of widespread, systemic, and pervasive abuses by immigration authorities have magnified the life and death consequences of anti-immigrant policies under the Trump Administration. From family separation and zero-tolerance border enforcement,…

Brief Amicus SSRN-id2370853 Rogerson.pdf
Violence between intimate partners is not exclusively exhibited as physical force or dominance. To permit Congress to address only domestic violence that presents itself as physical abuse alone is at best inept, and at worst, a fatal miscalculation.…

Waiting for Alvarado, How Administrative Delay Harms Immigrant Victims of Gender-Based Violence, 55 Wayne L. Rev. 1811 (2009).pdf
Part I of this Article provides an overview of the various administrative and adjudicative entities involved in determining asylum claims to explain the resulting procedural disaster that occurred in the Alvarado case. Part II discusses the reasons…

Unintended and Unavoidable, The Failure to Protect Rule and Its Consequences for Undocumented Parents and their Children, Family Court Review, Vol. 50, pp. 580, 2012.pdf
Parents without immigration status in the United States regularly face the threat of deportation and separation from their children. When an undocumented parent is brought to the attention of law enforcement through the child welfare system, they…

The Politics of Fear, Unaccompanied Immigrant Children and the Case of the Southern Border, 61 Villanova Law Review 843 (2016).pdf
Thousands of Central American children have migrated to the United States by themselves in the last two years. More are on the way as their governments continue to expose them to violence, neglect, poverty and exploitation, compelling them to flee to…

The “Necessity Defense” and Emerging Arbitral Conflict in its Application to the US-Argentina Bilateral Investment Treaty, 13 Law & Bus. Rev. Am. 547 (2007)​​.pdf
AT the turn of the twenty-first century, while the Internet boom was generating incredible wealth in developed countries, Argentina experienced one of the worst economic and fiscal crises in its history. Between 2001 and 2002, output fell 20 percent…

Sovereign Resistance to Federal Immigration Enforcement in State Courthouses, 32 Georgetown Immigration Law Journal 275 (2018).pdf
The federal government has maintained its supremacy over the enactment of immigration laws for over a century. Enforcement of those laws, however, is increasingly a matter of cooperative federalism -- or uncooperative, as the case may be. In response…

Lack of Detained Parents’ Access to the Family Justice System and the Unjust Severance of the Parent Child Relationship (2013) The Family Law Quarterly.pdf
Immigration law enforcement has numerous intended and unintended consequences for immigrant families. When a parent is detained as a result of immigration enforcement activities, their ability to access to the family justice system is limited and…

Domesticating Due Diligence Municipal Tort Litigations Potential to Address Failed Enforcement of Orders of Protection (2013) Am U J Gender Soc Poly and L.pdf
Orders of protection (OPs) are designed to protect victims of domestic violence from further abuse and to encourage the arrest of the perpetrator in the event of a violation of the order. In some states, orders of protection mandate arrest. However,…
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