John Harland Giammatteo

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Associate Professor of Law

Research Focus:  Civil Procedure, Federal Courts, Immigration, Administrative Law, Appellate Procedure and Public Benefits Law

Links: Curriculum VitaeSSRN

Contact Information

622 O'Brian Hall, North Campus
Buffalo, NY 14260-1100
716-645-2256
johngiam@buffalo.edu

Biography Publications

Articles

Immigration Adjudication, Judicial Review and the Uneven Incorporation of Administrative Law Norms, 40 GEORGETOWN IMMIGRATION LAW JOURNAL (forthcoming 2026).

The New Comity Abstention, 111 CALIFORNIA LAW REVIEW 1705 (2023) (Recipient of a 2024 Best Untenured Article Award from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Federal Courts and a 2024 Honorable Mention for Best Junior Scholarship from the Association of American Law Schools Section on Civil Procedure).

A Poll Tax By Another Name: Considering the Constitutionality of Conditioning Naturalization and the “Right to Have Rights” On An Ability to Pay, 95 NEW YORK UNIVERSITY LAW REVIEW Online 259 (2020).

United States Migrant Interdiction and the Detention of Refugees in Guantánamo Bay, 29 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW 195 (2017) .

Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the United States, 36 ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES 1261 (2013).

Border Watch: Cultures of Immigration, Detention, and Control, 36 ETHNIC AND RACIAL STUDIES 520 (2013).

To Return or Stay?, 35 FORCED MIGRATION REVIEW 52 (2010).

Book Reviews

Reviewed LAW OF ASYLUM IN THE UNITED STATES: 2024 EDITION (Deborah E. Anker & Jeffrey S, Chase) (Thomson Reuters, 2024)), 36 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF REFUGEE LAW 466 (2025)