Cornell Law Review

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The New Migration Law: Migrants, Refugees, and Citizens in an Anxious Age

Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law, School of Law, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Once every generation or so, entire fields of law require a full reset. We need to rethink basic premises, ask new questions, and even recast the role of law itself. This moment has come for the law governing migration. Seasoned observers of immigration and refugee law have developed answers to core questions that emerged a generation ago. But their answers often fail to engage coherently with the daunting…

Jan 2020