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All are welcome to attend a Baldy Center workshop on Friday, April 28 and Saturday, April 29, 2006, 12 O'Brian Hall, on Merging Immigration and Crime Control: An Interdisciplinary Workshop organized by Teresa Miller, UB Law; and Nora Demleitner, Hofstra University

Description

East Meets West in a Northern Border Town.

This conference brings together an interdisciplinary group of scholars and clinicians to discuss the convergence of crime control and immigration control, particularly since the declaration of the War on Drugs and the War on Terror. Participants will examine recent immigration law and policy reforms that adopt a more criminally punitive approach to the treatment of non-US citizens. These reforms include the detention of certain classes of removable aliens, local police enforcement of federal immigration law, expedited removal of undocumented workers, and the removal of so-called "criminal" aliens. Discussions will also shed light on the manner in which immigration control and national security are reshaping the contours of criminal justice and correctional practices in this contemporary renegotiation of the relationship between the immigration and criminal justice systems.

Papers

The papers for this conference are password protected. To access papers, enter the password you received via e-mail, or contact the Ellen Kausner,ekausner@buffalo.edu to obtain password information.

Program

Friday, April 28
3:00 - 3:15 pm 
Welcome and Introductions
Lynn Mather, Baldy Director; Teresa Miller and Nora Demleitner, Conference Organizers
3:15 - 5:00 pm
Panel 1: Crime and Immigration Control: The History and Theory of the "Crimmigration Crisis"
Moderator: Teresa Miller, Law, University at Buffalo
Stephen Legomsky, Law, Washington University, "Immigration Questions and Criminal Answers: The New Convergence"
Randall Shelden, Criminal Justice, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, "Controlling the Dangerous Classes: The Case of Immigrants and the Criminal Justice System in the United States"
Michael Welch, Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, "Immigration, Criminalization, and Counter-Law: A Foucauldian Analysis of Laws Against Law"
Jonathan Simon, Law, University of California Berkeley, "U.S. Deportation and Detention of Non-Citizens --A Window into the Emerging Risk-Based Criminal Justice System"
Saturday, April 29
9:00 - 10:45 am 
Panel 2: New Perspectives on the Convergence of Crime and Immigration Control
Moderator: Nora Demleitner, Law, Hofstra University
Juliet Stumpf, Law, Lewis & Clark, "The Crimmigration Crisis: Immigrants, Offenders, and Exclusion"
Huyen Pham, Law, University of Missouri-Columbia, "The Constitutional Right Not to Cooperate? Local Sovereignty and the Federal Immigration Power"
Johanna Oreskovic, Law, University at Buffalo, "International Adoption: A Regulatory Failure?"
Giovanna Macri, Law, University at Buffalo, "Immigration Detention: Expansion of the Prison Industrial Complex"

10:45 - 11:00 am Break
 
11:00 - 12:30 pm 
Panel 3: Convergence: Views from Europe and Canada
Moderator: Kathryn Bryk Friedman, Institute for Local Governance & Regional Growth
Audrey Macklin, Law, University of Toronto,"The Incorrigible Terrorist"
Maartje van der Woude, Law, Leiden University, "Have the Dutch Criminal Law and Immigration Law Become More Discriminatory Due to the Current Risk Society?" 

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch - Documentary films from Professor Miller's Documenting Law in Action class will be screened during lunch.

1:30 - 3:00 pm
Panel 4: New Directions for Scholarship and Activism
Moderators: Nora Demleitner, Law, Hofstra University, and Teresa Miller, Law, University at Buffalo
This panel will consider the pros (and cons) of an interdisciplinary approach to studying the convergence of crime and immigration control. This informal panel/roundtable will consist of a targeted discussion of the scholarly, pedagogical, clinical and political dimensions of scholarship and activism around the convergence of crime control and immigration control. This panel will also begin the discussion of the workshop's anticipated workproduct, an edited anthology of essays on the merger of crime and immigration control.
Daniel Kanstroom, Law, Boston College, "Post-Deportation Law: Oxymoron, Aspiration or Necessity?"
Nora Demleitner, Law, Hofstra University
Teresa Miller, Law, University at Buffalo

Participants

Confirmed participants include legal academics and practitioners: 
Nora Demleitner is a vice dean for academic affairs and professor of law at Hofstra University School of Law. Professor Demleitner teaches and has written widely in the areas of criminal, comparative, and immigration law. Her special expertise is in sentencing and collateral sentencing consequences.

Daniel Kanstroom is the Director of the Boston College Law School International Human Rights Program, Associate Director of the Boston College Center for Human Rights and International Justice, and Clinical Professor of Law. He teaches Immigration and Refugee Law, International Human Rights Law, and Administrative Law. Kanstroom has published widely in the fields of immigration, human rights, and criminal law. His latest book is entitled Good-bye Rosalita: A History of Deportation (forthcoming Harvard University Press 2006).

Stephen Legomsky
is the Charles F. Nagel Professor of International and Comparative Law, and until 2002 the (founding) Director of the Harris Institute for Global Legal Studies, at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy (now in its 4th edition), which has been adopted as the required text for immigration courses at 157 U.S. law schools from its inception through spring 2006, as well as two Oxford University Press books. He has testified before Congress and has advised President Clinton's transition team, President George H.W. Bush's Commissioner of Immigration, UNHCR, IOM, and the immigration ministers of Russia and Ukraine, on migration, refugee, and citizenship issues.

Audrey Macklin
is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Toronto. Her teaching areas include criminal law, administrative law, and immigration and refugee law. Her research and writing interests include transnational migration, citizenship, forced migration, feminist and cultural analysis, and human rights.

Giovanna Macri
is an adjunct professor at the University at Buffalo Law School. Her teaching areas include immigration law and guest-lecturing on prisoners' rights issues. She is also of counsel to the Law Offices of Mark T. Kenmore specializing in removal defense litigation.

Teresa Miller
is a professor at the University at Buffalo Law School. She teaches in two diverse areas of law; the law of contractual obligations and the legal regulation of prisoners. Her research focuses on prisons and the policies of mass incarceration that are responsible for prison expansion and the burgeoning numbers of people incarcerated in the U.S. Interest in incarceration lead her to research the growing prevalence of detention as a policy within the immigration system.

Johanna Oreskovic is Director of Post-Professional Education at the University at Buffalo Law School. She administers the Law School's L.L.M. and exchange programs. She is interested primarily in the development of international adoption as a social and legal institution.

Huyen Pham is associate professor of law at the University of Missouri School of Law. Previously, she worked in the Missouri Attorney General's office as co-counsel to the Missouri Ethics Commission. She teaches Immigration Law, Criminal Law, Family Law, and Lawyering.

Randall Shelden
is a member of faculty at University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Criminal Justice. His interests include delinquency, gangs, crime control, female crime and delinquency and the history of criminal justice. He is currently conducting research on the prison industrial complex.

Jonathan Simon
is Associate Dean of the Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, and Professor of Law at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Miami School of Law, as well as a visiting professor of law at Yale Law School and New York University School of Law.

Juliet Stumpf
comes to Lewis & Clark from the Lawyering Program faculty at the New York University School of Law. Prior to her position at NYU, she clerked for the Honorable Richard A. Paez on the Ninth Circuit. In practice, she served as a Senior Trial Attorney in the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department where she litigated employment discrimination claims and advocated for increased civil rights protections on behalf of immigrants and U.S. citizens of color. She also worked for the law firm of Morrison and Foerster in Palo Alto, California and Washington, D.C., where she served as the firm's representative to the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs and the Washington Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights. Professor Stumpf's research focuses on the intersection of immigration law and other substantive areas of law, including constitutional law, criminal law, national security law, civil rights, and employment law. She also serves as an Articles Consultant for the International Journal of Constitutional Law.

Maartje van der Woude
, Leiden University Law School, Netherlands

Michael Welch
is a professor in the Criminal Justice Program at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. He received a Ph.D. in sociology from the University of North Texas and his research interests include punishment, social control, and human rights. Welch has published numerous articles for academic journals, edited volumes, and other scholarly publications. In 2005, and 2006-2007, Welch is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights, London School of Economics. He invites you to visit his Web site at www.professormichalwelch.com.

Contact Teresa Miller at UB Law School at tmiller@buffalo.edu with any questions about the substance of the colloquium. For questions about logistics, including travel, accommodation, or local transportation contact Ellen Kausner in the Baldy Center at ekausner@buffalo.edu.

Registration

All are welcome to attend. There will be no fee for this workshop; however, space is limited so registration is recommended. Please email your name and affiliation to Ellen Kausner, Events Coordinator, at ekausner@buffalo.edu

Continuing Legal Education Credits

A total of 5.0 CLE Credits (Non-Transitional Only) available. Credits may be earned for attendance at Friday and/or Saturday panels.
Friday: Panel 1 only
Earn 1.5 Professional Practice credits and 0.5 Ethics credit.
Saturday: Panels 2 and 3 only (attendance required at both panels)
Earn 2.0 Professional Practice credits and 1.0 Ethics credit. No CLE credit is offered for Panel 4. Attendees are welcome; however, to attend Panel 4 (see program above) if indicated at the time of registration. Registration by April 26 requested. Register by RSVP to Ellen Kausner at the Baldy Center at (716) 645-2102 or email ekausner@buffalo.edu indicating which day or days you will be attending and if you will be staying for lunch and Panel 4 on Saturday. Registration includes breaks and Saturday morning coffee, as well as workshop materials. Sign-up is from 2:45 pm on Friday and 8:45 am on Saturday.
Fee: $100 for both days or $40 Friday only; $60 Saturday only.
Checks should be made payable to "UB Foundation Activities, Inc." and sent to Ellen Kausner at the Baldy Center for Law & Social Policy, UB Law School, 511 O'Brian Hall, Buffalo, NY 14260. The University at Buffalo has a financial hardship policy. For further information on this policy, contact Lisa Mueller, CLE Coordinator at (716) 645-3176.

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